City: Boke Màvutíhg

Boke Màvutíhg

Boke Màvutíhg
Example Tauran architecture.
StateDaland
ProvenceFtèwup Provence
Sub ProvenceUprocifi County
RegionWăkh Jĭìthu Forest
Founded1324
Community LeaderLord Shêbë
Area37 km2 (14 mi2)
Average Yearly Temp24°C (75°F)
Average Elevation6346 m (20820 ft)
Average Yearly Precipitation255 cm/y (100 in/y)
Population8818
Population Density238 people per km2 (629 people per mi2)
Town AuraCharm
Naming
Native nameBoke Màvutíhg
PronunciationMàv /ˈutɪ̞g/
Direct Translation[pulse; rhythm] [employer]
Translation[Not Yet Translated]

Boke Màvutíhg (Màv /ˈutɪ̞g/ [pulse; rhythm] [employer]) is a subtropical City located in Uprocifi County, Ftèwup Provence, within the Daland.

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

Climate

Boke Màvutíhg has a yearly average temperature of 24°C (75°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 27°C (80°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 21°C (69°F). Boke Màvutíhg receives an average of 255 cm/y (100 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Boke Màvutíhg covers an area of nearly 37 km2 (14 mi2), and an average elevation of 6346 m (20820 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Boke Màvutíhg was founded durring the early 14th century in winter of the year 1324, by Zêlî. 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 Zêlî.

Boke Màvutíhg was built using the conventions of Tauran durring the early 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Boke Màvutíhg is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature waddle and daub construction with good timber frames and a stone foundation protected by thatched or shingled rooves. Most buildings with second floors are built in such a way as to overhang into the streets on the upper floors for more space, as building size seems to be the primary indicator of wealth within the community. Most buildings are not decorated with any integral features, but instead use ivy, flowers, and other natural elements in planters of on trellices to breathe life into the structure they grow upon.

Boke Màvutíhg is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of restrictive paverstone streets which form octogonal 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 city posesses a fortified albit thin wall of querried stone. This wall posesses most of the features of a castle wall, though it is constructed from cheeper inferior stone. It would pose a minor chalange for an attacking army, though it's clear the wall's true purpose is to crush the hopes of bandits and marauders. The city's failry decent fortifications are visibly old, but also obviously maintained semi-regularly. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with ocasional mantance of the citys defences.

A look around Boke Màvutíhg gives the unmistakable impression the town is one of the strictest places imaginable. Everyone’s actions are clearly directed by laws they keep in heart and mind at all times. Orderly byond order is a phrase which Boke Màvutíhg brings to mind.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Boke Màvutíhg has an Scientific Academy which provides higher education in the natural sciences.

Boke Màvutíhg 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 City. Boke Màvutíhg's grid is powered by an arcane means.

Boke Màvutíhg 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 Màvutíhg 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 Màvutíhg's natural decorations nor waterways.

Boke Màvutíhg 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 Màvutíhg 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 Màvutíhg 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

While Boke Màvutíhg has a public leader, the real authority is hidden from outsiders. This ruler may draw their authority from rationales unacceptable to outsiders, they may have cowed the public authority into obedience, or they may have a mutually beneficial private arrangement with the official ruler.

Boke Màvutíhg's garrison was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used makes use of a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse and symmetrical central-plan, resulting in buildings with a square central mass and four arms of equal length. Decorative features included domed rooves, arches, soaring spaces, and sumptuous decoration: marble columns and inlay, mosaics on the vaults, inlaid-stone pavements, and sometimes gold coffered ceilings.

In Boke Màvutíhg during thunderstorms, with each flash of lightning, everyone sees different monsters from the corner of their eyes.

The Snake, Viper near Boke Màvutíhg are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Boke Màvutíhg's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves destroying a prepared ritual vessel to channel Truename Magic energies of tier 2 via proclamations.

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.

Agriculture

  • Dairy Farmers: 18
  • Farmers: 27
  • Farm Laborer: 46
  • Hunters: 28
  • Milk Maids: 22
  • Ranchers: 11
  • Ranch Hands: 22
  • Shepherds: 21
    • Farmland: 35712 m2
    • Cattle and Similar Creatures: 2204
    • Poultry: 26454
    • Swine: 1763
    • Sheep: 88
    • Goats: 17
    • Horses, Mounts, and Beasts of Burden: 881

Craftsmen

  • Arms and Toolmakers: 17
  • Blacksmiths: 20
  • Bookbinders: 11
  • Buckle-makers: 11
  • Cabinetmakers: 21
  • Candlemakers: 25
  • Carpenters: 26
  • Clothmakers: 24
  • Coach and Harness Makers: 9
  • Coopers: 23
  • Copper, Brass, Tin, Zinc, and Lead Workers: 12
  • Copyists: 8
  • Cutlers: 7
  • Fabricworkers: 21
  • Farrier: 56
  • Furriers: 5
  • Glassworkers: 25
  • Gunsmiths: 17
  • Harness-Makers: 8
  • Hatters: 18
  • Hosiery Workers: 6
  • Jewelers: 10
  • Leatherwrights: 21
  • Locksmiths: 8
  • Matchstick makers: 14
  • Musical Instrument Makers: 12
  • Painters, Structures and Fixtures: 11
  • Paper Workers: 12
  • Plasterers: 11
  • Pursemakers: 14
  • Roofers: 9
  • Ropemakers: 9
  • Rugmakers: 8
  • Saddlers: 16
  • Scabbardmakers: 18
  • Scalemakers: 9
  • Scientific, Surgical, and Optical Instrument Makers: 5
  • Sculptors, Structures and Fixtures: 8
  • Shoemakers: 8
  • Soap and Tallow Workers: 34
  • Tailors: 47
  • Tanners: 11
  • Upholsterers: 13
  • Watchmakers: 11
  • Weavers: 23
  • Whitesmiths: 6

Merchants

  • Adventuring Goods Retellers: 6
  • Arcana Sellers: 6
  • Beer-Sellers: 11
  • Booksellers: 13
  • Butchers: 22
  • Chandlers: 24
  • Chicken Butchers: 27
  • Entrepreneurs: 9
  • Fine Clothiers: 23
  • Fishmongers: 20
  • Florists: 5
  • Potion Sellers: 14
  • Resellers: 41
  • Spice Merchants: 12
  • Wine-sellers: 17
  • Wheelwright: 13
  • Woodsellers: 8

Service workers

  • Bakers: 58
  • Barbers: 39
  • Coachmen: 12
  • Cooks: 32
  • Doctors: 19
  • Gamekeepers: 13
  • Grooms: 7
  • Hairdressers: 28
  • Healers: 24
  • Housekeepers: 25
  • Housemaids: 48
  • House Stewards: 27
  • Inns: 8
  • Laundry maids: 16
  • Maidservants: 26
  • Nursery Maids: 17
  • Pastrycooks: 36
  • Restaurateur: 38
  • Tavern Keepers: 35

Specialized Laborer

  • Ashworkers: 12
  • Bleachers: 7
  • Chemical Workers: 5
  • Coal Heavers: 18
  • In-Town Couriers: 19
  • Long Haul Couriers: 19
  • Dockyard Workers: 18
  • Gas Workers: 4
  • Hay Merchants: 7
  • Leech Collectors: 22
  • Millers: 20
  • Miners: 20
  • Oilmen and Polishers: 13
  • Postmen: 21
  • Pure Finder: 11
  • Skinners: 24
  • Sugar Refiners: 5
  • Tosher: 12
  • Warehousemen: 30
  • Watercarriers: 18
  • Watermen, Bargemen, etc.: 24

Skilled Laborers

  • Accountants: 10
  • Alchemist: 13
  • Clerk: 19
  • Dentists: 8
  • Educators: 24
  • Engineers: 12
  • Gardeners: 8
  • Mages: 6
  • Plumbers: 9
  • Pharmacist: 10
  • Professors: 3
  • Scientists: 6
  • Wizards: 3

Civil Servants

  • Adventurers: 8
  • Bankers: 13
  • Civil Clerks: 19
  • Civic Iudex: 9
  • Consultants: 5
  • Exorcist: 22
  • Fixers: 10
  • Kami Clerk: 17
  • Landlords: 18
  • Lawyers: 10
  • Legend Keepers: 14
  • Militia Officers: 88
  • Monks, Monastic: 31
  • Monks, Civic: 24
  • Historian, Oral: 19
  • Historian, Textual: 10
  • Policemen, Sheriffs, etc.: 18
  • Priests: 44
  • Rangers: 11
  • Rat Catchers: 14
  • Scholars: 13
  • Spiritualist: 16
  • Slayers: 4
  • Storytellers: 33
  • Military Officers: 31

Cottage Industries

  • Brewers: 27
  • Comfort Services: 33
  • Enchanters: 9
  • Herbalists: 9
  • Jaminators: 31
  • Needleworkers: 27
  • Potters: 14
  • Preserve Makers: 31
  • Quilters: 12
  • Seamsters: 41
  • Spinners: 24
  • Tinker: 9
  • Weaver: 22

Artists

  • Actors: 8
  • Architects: 3
  • Bards: 13
  • Costumers: 5
  • Dancers: 11
  • Drafters: 5
  • Engravers: 7
  • Fine Furniture Carpenters: 4
  • Glaziers: 9
  • Inlayers: 8
  • Musicians: 25
  • Painters, Art: 4
  • Playwrights: 9
  • Sculptors, Art: 7
  • Wood Carvers: 27
  • Writers: 30

Produce Industries

  • Butter Churners: 30
  • Canners: 23
  • Cheesmakers: 25
  • Ice Merchants: 3
  • Millers: 17
  • Picklers: 15
  • Smokers: 11
  • Stockmakers: 10
  • Tobacconists: 14
  • Tallowmakers: 20

3267 of Boke Màvutíhg's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

4846 of Boke Màvutíhg's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 705 (8%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century a local hero by the name of saved most of the town when a natural disaster struck Boke Màvutíhg. One of Boke Màvutíhg's festivals remembers the hero.

History