Boke Ùqvabo

Boke Ùqvabo (/ʊq/ /ˈvabo/ [ash] [triple]) is a subtropical Small City located in the Weian Region of the Tetburland.

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

Climate

Boke Ùqvabo has a yearly average temperature of 19°C (66°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 24°C (75°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 15°C (59°F). Boke Ùqvabo receives an average of 254 cm/y (99 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Boke Ùqvabo covers an area of nearly 12 km² (4 mi²), and an average elevation of 2494 m (8182 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Boke Ùqvabo was founded durring the early 15th century in spring of the year 1425, by Tennil. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Boke Ùqvabo was built using the conventions of Tauran durring the early 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Boke Ùqvabo 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 Ùqvabo is buildings are speckled and packed arround crampt baked earthen streets with seemingly no patern to them. It appears as if the city'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 city. The city resides behind a palisade wall complete with battlments, a moat, and timber gatehouses with drawbridges. Boke Ùqvabo's robustly designed timber walls 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.

Right off the bat Boke Ùqvabo hits you in the face with its success. Everyone, even the peasants, are dressed in well made clothing. Every tool and implement you can see is finely made, and people will boast to you as obvious strangers of the wonders which can be found in their markets. More interestingly is a total lack of beggars, and plenty of new buildings are going up even as you speak. Somehow this city has come into quite a lot of wealth, and recently from the looks of things.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

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

Boke Ùqvabo 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 Ùqvabo's natural decorations nor waterways.

Boke Ùqvabo 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 Ùqvabo 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 Ùqvabo 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 Ùqvabo 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

Boke Ùqvabo's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is best known for its functional shapes, abstract shapes used sparingly for decor, simple color schemes, holistic design, and basic industrial materials. Its simple designs were created to be beautiful, functional, and mass-producible. The style used little to no embellishment or ornamentation, instead drawing attention to the streamlined design, such as flat roofs to create a simple, geometric look. The simplicity masks the style's nearly sinister functionality, as every last feature is designed to guide the people living in the building in how to make the most efficient use of the structure.

In Boke Ùqvabo the milk never sours.

The Dallo near Boke Ùqvabo are known to be quite timid.

Boke Ùqvabo's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves consuming a local narcotic to channel Invocation energies of tier 1 via recitation of poetic epics.

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 Ùqvabo Census Data: Year 2000

1005 of Boke Ùqvabo's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 55 work in Agriculture
• 230 work as Craftsmen
• 76 work as Merchants
• 159 work as Service Workers
• 100 work as General Laborers
• 39 work as Skilled Laborers
• 148 work as Civil Servants
• 91 work in Cottage Industries
• 54 work as Artists
• 53 work in Produce Industries

1745 of Boke Ùqvabo's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 114 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Boke Ùqvabo was unknowingly built atop something unstable, and now that substrate is crumbling. It may be swampy ground or a decaying coastline, or it could be an ancient buried city that’s now giving way. In the case of some antique habitation, the denizens that once lived there might be boiling upward as their home is collapsing, or new opportunities may be revealed even as the community’s present structure is ruined.

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

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century, Boke Ùqvabo was attacked by soldiers from another nation, waging a greater campaign. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Boke Ùqvabo lost 101 people, 264 livestock, and 21 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 54, when members of Boke Ùqvabo's militia enacted an operation to defend a particular irregulars group from enemy attack. The operation was complicated by the army's activities draw the wrath of formerly neutral parties. The conflict ended with pitched battle between both forces, which ended in a stalemate for Boke Ùqvabo's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Boke Ùqvabo's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

History