Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål (/vadˈvəq/ /jɑːl/ [noble; elite] [corpse]) is a subtropical Town located in Shkshqi̊sh County, Qättza Kingdom, within the United Kingdom of Undermountain.

The name Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål is derived from the Dwarven language, as Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål was founded by Rucebus Yadequg, who was culturaly Dwarvern.

Climate

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål has a yearly average temperature of 22°C (71°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 27°C (80°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 18°C (64°F). Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål receives an average of 275 cm/y (108 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 1100 m (3608 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål was founded durring the late 11th century, by Rucebus Yadequg. The establishment of the new community went well, though many minor issues had to be solved as time went on. This was enough to delay construction and push back the formal opening ceramony, leading to some embarisment for Rucebus Yadequg.

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål was built using the conventions of Dwarvern durring the late 11th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature plaster covered brickwork used to form structures with an emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts. Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches and aediculae can be found everywhere such that only size of building and yard can be used to measure the general prosparity of a given building's owners due to a general wealthy feeling the style gives off.

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål is buildings are arranged arrounded a highly ordered system of spacious flagstone streets which form triangular paterns, allowing the incides of the octagons to be common grounds for the buildings on the edges, be it for parkland, yardspace, plazas, or markets. The town is the proud owner of a properly designed set of renforced walls made from mighty querried stone blocks. Their construction and material choices would make a dwarf weap with joy, for each and every part of the elaborate fortifications are purly functional and robust well byond reason. Even nonexperts can tell the walls are an excelent defencive structure. Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål's exceptionaly well made fortifications are suffering from significent damage, so much so that examples can be pointed to no matter which section one might have within their line of site, and most of which render sections inoperable at present.

A look around Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål gives you an uneasy feeling. Everything is just a little too worn down, a little too dirty, or both. No one makes eye contact. Kids play quietly, but happily. Occasionally a passerby glances at you out of the corner of their eye, staring jsut long enough for it to be uncomfortable.

Civic Infrastructure

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål.

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål has a Gravedigger's Guild, which is responsible for collecting the dead and laying them to rest according to all applicable laws and religious customs.

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål has a Highwayman's Guild, which is tasked with maintaining the roads and highways leading into town as well as keeping them safe for travelers.

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål has a monistary of an order of Civil Monks, who provide divine-related services to the general public and maintain Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål's public wards, blessings, and other arcane systems.

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål has an Scientific Academy which provides higher education in the natural sciences.

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål has a public schooling program overseen by the Hall of Sages who has the responsibility of ensuring access to affordable high-quality education in all basic classes (Reading, Writing, Mathmatics, General Sciences, General Arcana, and Social Education) is made available to all citizens.

Cultural Notes

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used has a sleek, linear appearance with stylized, often geometric ornamentation. The primary facade of its buildings often featured a series of set backs that create a stepped outline. Low-relief decorative panels can be found at entrances, around windows, along roof edges or as string courses. It was best known for its use of smooth finish building materials such as stucco, concrete block, glazed brick or mosaic tile. Decorative details can incorporate various artistic or exotic motifs to suit the building's function or the architect's whim. Chevrons, zigzags, and other geometrical motifs are common forms of ornament.

In Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål the stars are always right.

The Doppelrat near Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves square dance to channel Conjuration energies of tier 3 via recitation of scripture.

Economy

The following information was obtained via the Imperial Census Bureau as part of the Eyom Economic Outreach Program. It differs from Standard Imperial censuses in that many of Tom's citizens, regardless of culture, work in more than one occupation or hold more than a single job. The Imperial Census Bureau has ruled that a job is a job, hence, the intigers within the data presented here can count an individual more than once.

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål Census Data: Year 2000

369 of Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 24 work in Agriculture
• 79 work as Craftsmen
• 29 work as Merchants
• 63 work as Service Workers
• 34 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 54 work as Civil Servants
• 38 work in Cottage Industries
• 17 work as Artists
• 19 work in Produce Industries

755 of Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 84 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål has a conflict with a neighboring community. This usually isn't part of a larger war, but is instead a personal animosity between them. It may be the community has suffered at their enemy's hands, or they may have been the ones applying the suffering. Constant low-level skirmishes and trouble making go on between the two.

Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål is accessed from a nearby river via an intricate series of locks.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century the Kami spared the town a natural disaster. One of Ådehlÿ Hyehä Yål's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History