Buri Dudà Mudâ

Buri Dudà Mudâ (/ˈseʤo/ /ˈdudə/ [dark] [pastry]) is a temperate Large City located in the Tahyko District of the Lallalan City-state.

The name Buri Dudà Mudâ is derived from the Sylvin language, as Buri Dudà Mudâ was founded by Ênka, who was culturaly Warrenese.

Climate

Buri Dudà Mudâ 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 7°C (44°F). Buri Dudà Mudâ receives an average of 235 cm/y (92 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Buri Dudà Mudâ covers an area of nearly 395 km² (158 mi²), and an average elevation of 1336 m (4383 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Buri Dudà Mudâ was founded durring the late 15th century in fall of the year 1461, by Ênka. The establishment of Buri Dudà Mudâ was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Ênka struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Buri Dudà Mudâ as a prison colony.

Buri Dudà Mudâ was built using the conventions of Warrenese durring the late 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Buri Dudà Mudâ 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.

Buri Dudà Mudâ is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of narrow paverstone streets which form hexical 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 well maintained. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with routine mantance of the city's defences.

A look around Buri Dudà Mudâ is like a look into a broken heart which long ago fell to corruption. There is no planning, no organization. Everyone here clearly goes about their own thing with little thought to anyone around them who isn’t selling something they need… unless of course, they would be an easy target for some robbery. The city has truly fallen to evil.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

Buri Dudà Mudâ 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 Buri Dudà Mudâ. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Buri Dudà Mudâ's parks.

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

Buri Dudà Mudâ 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.

Buri Dudà Mudâ 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.

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

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

Buri Dudà Mudâ 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.

Buri Dudà Mudâ 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.

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

Buri Dudà Mudâ has an Administrative Academy which trains individuals in the administrative arts.

Buri Dudà Mudâ 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. Buri Dudà Mudâ's grid is powered by hydrogalvanic generators.

Buri Dudà Mudâ's old civil lighting system was converted to Galvanic Lamps recently, and expanded to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Buri Dudà Mudâ has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Buri Dudà Mudâ 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.

Buri Dudà Mudâ 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 Buri Dudà Mudâ's natural decorations nor waterways.

Buri Dudà Mudâ 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.

Buri Dudà Mudâ 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.

Buri Dudà Mudâ 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.

Buri Dudà Mudâ 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

Buri Dudà Mudâ's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known for its fluid and florid elaborate style, comprising ornate, asymmetric designs and pastel shades. It is often considered to be a playful, light style, which made exuberant use of curves and emphasized subtle asymmetry in the general shape of its structures. Walls, ceilings and moldings are decorated with numerous interlacing of curves and counter-curves based on the shapes of ‘C’ and ‘S’, along with shell forms and other naturalistic shapes.

Due to the actions of local Kami, autumn is short in Buri Dudà Mudâ.

The Cloud Dragon, Wyrmling near Buri Dudà Mudâ are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Buri Dudà Mudâ'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 Conjuration 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.

Buri Dudà Mudâ Census Data: Year 2000

35011 of Buri Dudà Mudâ's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 1907 work in Agriculture
• 7936 work as Craftsmen
• 2862 work as Merchants
• 5266 work as Service Workers
• 3681 work as General Laborers
• 1439 work as Skilled Laborers
• 5040 work as Civil Servants
• 3102 work in Cottage Industries
• 1878 work as Artists
• 1900 work in Produce Industries

53487 of Buri Dudà Mudâ's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 4657 (5%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

The roads leading into Buri Dudà Mudâ possess a great number of switchbacks. While designed for defense, they mostly wind up pissing everyone trying to take goods to town right the hell off.

POI

History

Buri Dudà Mudâ is in secret rebellion against their ostensible liege, having cut deals with his enemies, plotted to betray him for their own gain, or bridled under his tyranny and sought a better lord. The community’s leadership is all in on this plot, and outside viceroys or representatives are being kept carefully ignorant of the reality. The common folk may be oblivious to the truth, though they’ll doubtless have felt the same motivations and promptings that convinced their leaders to turn traitor.

The the a leather gambeson of Abjuration, an a leather gambeson imbued with notable amounts of Abjuration energies was created near Buri Dudà Mudâ by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History