Boke Jādlan

Boke Jādlan (/jəˑd/ /lan/ [brick] [polite]) is a temperate Large City located in Krfievāzè County, Tarnàg Provence, within the Daland.

The name Boke Jādlan is derived from the Sylvin language, as Boke Jādlan was founded by Paz, who was culturaly Tauran.

Climate

Boke Jādlan has a yearly average temperature of 29°C (84°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a hot 33°C (91°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a warm 26°C (78°F). Boke Jādlan receives an average of 151 cm/y (59 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Boke Jādlan covers an area of nearly 236 km² (94 mi²), and an average elevation of 3632 m (11916 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Boke Jādlan was founded durring the early 15th century in summer of the year 1400, by Paz. 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 Paz.

Boke Jādlan was built using the conventions of Tauran durring the early 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Boke Jādlan is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature timber framed wooden shiethed or brick construction, which gives form to a very formalized, rational, expence effishent arcatectural style based on strictly symmetrical designs which universaly feature pitched roofs, shutters, and the occasional column or pilaster for a decorative touch.

Boke Jādlan is is constructed arround a series of crampt cobblestone mainstreets which form overlapping circles, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to eachother at varrious points. The city rests behind a thin stone wall. The wall's design was likly directly copied from a castle's parmiter defences. It's simply that the arcatect made Boke Jādlan's wall substancialy thinner than a castle's walls. While the towers and gatehouses are adiquite, the obvious cost savings measure of making the walls drasticaly thinner reduces their ability to resist siege weapons greatly. The city's impressive-looking wall could fail at a critical moment in battle, and would likely not even resist a few bandits with improvised siege equipment. Boke Jādlan's budget oriented are in an unremarkable state. To some, this is the ideal sate for defences to be in. In need of absoutly nothing, and ready to serve the city as needed.

Boke Jādlan has the unmistakable air of a city on its last legs. Everything is a bit slipshod and ramshackle. Everyone is at work, or drinking. No one has anything in their eyes other than fear and despair. Whatever industry once fueled Boke Jādlan ’s existence has dried up and the city is drifting down the stream of history as it dries up. Even with that as it is, everything is just a little too worn down, a little too dirty, or much of both. The town should be gone, not dying. No one makes eye contact. Kids play quietly, but happily. Occasionally a passerby glances at you out of the corner of their eye, staring just long enough for it to be uncomfortable.

Civic Infrastructure

Boke Jādlan possesses a Aethary Link for its accademic, government, and financial institutions. Public Aethary access is available through one or more of these intitutions.

Boke Jādlan has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Boke Jādlan 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 Boke Jādlan. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Boke Jādlan's parks.

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

Boke Jādlan has a government-funded child care program, overseen by the local Department of Nursemaids, which is responsible for providing childcare to working-class citizens according to local ordinances.

Boke Jādlan 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.

Boke Jādlan has a Guild of Nurses, which is tasked with caring for the elderly and infirm in accordance with local ordinances, religious values, and customs.

Boke Jādlan has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Boke Jādlan 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.

Boke Jādlan 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.

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

Boke Jādlan has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Boke Jādlan 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 Large City. Boke Jādlan's grid is powered by a direct leyline tap.

Boke Jādlan possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. In spite of the Galvanic Grid, these lights continue to use their old fule sources to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Boke Jādlan has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Boke Jādlan has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. While not open to the public, the librarians and scholars employed by the library will assist anyone with their research needs, and wealthy individuals can purchase membership to access the library's materials themselves. In spite of being generally closed to the public, the library has a room with several Aether Linked devices available to the public during business hours.

Boke Jādlan 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 Boke Jādlan's natural decorations nor waterways.

Boke Jādlan has a Guild of Roadworkers, who are responsible for maintaining the roadways and public paths within town. They also have the duty of enforcing all civil laws relating to the roadways.

Boke Jādlan 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.

Boke Jādlan 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.

Boke Jādlan is home to a University which provides higher education in a variety of fields, and also serves as a research institute for those same fields.

Cultural Notes

A substantial minority of the locals are descended from foreigners alien to their local neighbors. They may have been religious exiles, economic migrants, indigenous locals surrounded by the existing polity, or a foreign settlement conquered within the relatively recent past. The locals may not be enthusiastic about being ruled by others not of their kind, and their neighbors may look askance at the way foreign customs or even laws may be maintained.

Boke Jādlan's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is famous for its stately symmetry, classical elements, and grand appearance. Columns and pillars, such as Corinthian columns, are often seen supporting open structures or porticos. Symmetry is an important feature of this style, with each half of a building mirroring the other. Domed ceilings and windows grace these buildings, with everything placed in a mathematical arrangement.

In Boke Jādlan most nights are accompanied by colorful ribbons of light in the sky.

The Frog Father near Boke Jādlan are known to be quite timid.

Boke Jādlan's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves orgies to channel Invocation 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.

Boke Jādlan Census Data: Year 2000

21377 of Boke Jādlan's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 1279 work in Agriculture
• 4852 work as Craftsmen
• 1690 work as Merchants
• 3290 work as Service Workers
• 2092 work as General Laborers
• 853 work as Skilled Laborers
• 3111 work as Civil Servants
• 1893 work in Cottage Industries
• 1170 work as Artists
• 1147 work in Produce Industries

31841 of Boke Jādlan's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 2217 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Boke Jādlan is accessed from a nearby river via an intricate series of locks.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century a local hero by the name of solved a major long term problem plaguing the town. One of Boke Jādlan's festivals remembers the hero.

History