Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä

Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä (/ves̼/ /jə/ [civilized] [dynamite]) is a subtropical Town located in Vdrungzkesesu County, Dähechanxya Kingdom, within the United Kingdom of Undermountain.

The name Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä is derived from the Dwarven language, as Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä was founded by Leopard Slugs Zacwafqehgbävle, who was culturaly Dwarvern.

Climate

Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä has a yearly average temperature of 15°C (59°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 24°C (75°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 6°C (42°F). Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä receives an average of 116 cm/y (45 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä covers an area of nearly 6 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 8906 m (-13730 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä was founded durring the late 16th century in fall of the year 1554, by Leopard Slugs Zacwafqehgbävle. The establishment of Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Leopard Slugs Zacwafqehgbävle electing to pay people to resettle in Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä.

Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä was built using the conventions of Dwarvern durring the late 16th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä 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 Vesch Yä is buildings are speckled and packed arround restrictive flagstone streets with seemingly no patern to them. It appears as if the town's residents simply built streets as they pleased and squeazed buildings in wherever and howeave rpossible, creating an organic, frustrating to navigate, maze of a town. 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. The town's exceptionaly well made fortifications are visibly old, but also obviously well maintained. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with routine mantance of the town's defences.

A look around Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä shows Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä as a den of corruption. Birbes can be seen changing hands openly, such that it must be customary to do so and must have been for a long time. The locals have no fear, no annoyance at the state of things, it simply is. The town has another layer to it as well. Locals can be overheard having academic discussions, as well as talking about scholarly subjects in general. It’s quite clear Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä places a lot of value on education and being a learned individual, or at least, faking it.

Civic Infrastructure

Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä has an Office of Civil Groundskeeping, which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the construction and upkeep up of all plant life, water features, and other natural decorations within Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä's parks.

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

Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä 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 Vesch Yä 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 Vesch Yä has a Hall of Slayers, which is tasked with maintaining the roads and highways leading into town as well as keeping them safe for travelers.

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

Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä has an Scientific Academy which provides higher education in the natural sciences.

Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä possesses a Galvanic Power Grid, which brings galvanic current to most if not all buildings in town, and permits a great many consumer goods to function within the Town. Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä's old civil lighting system was converted to Galvanic Lamps recently, and expanded to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands. They are not to be confused with the Office of Civil Groundskeeping as they do not hold authority over nor responsibility for Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä's natural decorations nor waterways.

Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä 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.

Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä has a public septic system, which allows its citizens to have indoor bathrooms. The septic system is overseen by the League of Sewerkeepers, who posses the legal authority to enforce all laws relating to the septic system, and are also tasked with its maintenance and upkeep.

Cultural Notes

Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä has a long tradition of martial expertise. This may be a crisply-organized history of skilled native levies, or it may be a natural belligerence in the people that leaves them familiar with bloodshed. While their neighbors and liege doubtless respect their talents, this very aptitude might make them more willing to turn to steel than prudence would advise.

Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by their massive, monolithic and 'blocky' appearance with a rigid geometric style. It was best known for its rough, unfinished surfaces, unusual shapes, heavy-looking materials, straight lines, and small windows. Modular elements were often used to form masses representing specific functional zones, grouped into a unified whole.

In Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä there are no smells.

The Ankheg near Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves embarking on a group pilgrimage to channel Summoning energies of tier 1 via moments of science.

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 Vesch Yä Census Data: Year 2000

456 of Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 27 work in Agriculture
• 98 work as Craftsmen
• 37 work as Merchants
• 72 work as Service Workers
• 49 work as General Laborers
• 16 work as Skilled Laborers
• 72 work as Civil Servants
• 39 work in Cottage Industries
• 21 work as Artists
• 25 work in Produce Industries

886 of Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 100 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Due to a magical anomaly, Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä is directly accessible from a nearby river, despite the lack of a physical connection between the town's pond and the river.

POI

History

The the a leather gambeson of Summoning, an a leather gambeson imbued with potent amounts of Summoning energies was created in Ådehlÿ Vesch Yä by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History