Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ (/ˈvɑʧæ/ /ˈulæ/ [static] [moment]) is a temperate Large City located in S̺oræ Hihû Kingdom, Chyûyu̽ Lu̹sû Empire, within the Warren.

The name Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ is derived from the Sylvin language, as Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ was founded by Gadsí, who was culturaly Rattu.

Climate

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ has a yearly average temperature of 9°C (48°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 23°C (73°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a freezing -4°C (25°F). Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ receives an average of 293 cm/y (115 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the long winter months. Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ covers an area of nearly 159 km² (63 mi²), and an average elevation of 6046 m (19835 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ was founded durring the early 10th century, by Gadsí. 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 Gadsí.

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ was built using the conventions of Rattu durring the early 10th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ is no diffrent. The city'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.

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ is buildings are arranged arround a network of broad paverstone streets which form a diamond shaped grid, where each diamond verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller diamond has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The city resides behind a palisade wall complete with battlments, a moat, and timber gatehouses with drawbridges. Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ'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.

A look around Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ has something terribly wrong with it. It’s impossible to put one’s finger on, but something is horribly wrong. Maybe it’s the way fog blankets the ground, but only in the connors of places. Maybe it’s the vermin scuttling between shadows in the corner of your eyes. Perhaps it’s the overcast sky which seemed to creep out of nowhere, or the distant howling of wolves. Maybe it’s all of those things together, or perhaps it's the way these elements combine with the simple fact that it is abundantly clear Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ suffered something horrible some time ago. It's as if the town itself is depressed. Smiles are few, cheer is nowhere to be had. Everyone quietly goes about their daily business not looking anyone in the eye. Regardless, you do not feel it would be wise to remain in Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ long.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ 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 Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ's parks.

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

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ 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.

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ 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.

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

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

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ 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.

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ 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.

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

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ 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. Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ's grid is powered by a boiler and turbine based power plant.

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ 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.

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. The library is open to the public, including the Aether Link.

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ 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 Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ's natural decorations nor waterways.

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ 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.

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ 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.

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ 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.

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ 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

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ's chapel 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.

Due to the actions of local Kami, spring is recurring in Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ.

The Lurker in Light near Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ are known to be quite timid.

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ'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 Transmutation energies of tier 3 via speaking in tongues.

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.

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ Census Data: Year 2000

14155 of Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 786 work in Agriculture
• 3207 work as Craftsmen
• 1128 work as Merchants
• 2155 work as Service Workers
• 1454 work as General Laborers
• 584 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1975 work as Civil Servants
• 1328 work in Cottage Industries
• 792 work as Artists
• 746 work in Produce Industries

20760 of Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 2228 (6%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ is reliant on an industry or product that has toxic or negative side-effects as part of its production. The good is extremely valuable, or the community is extremely desperate, and the side effects are endured as a necessary evil. It may be that their neighbors or lord are forcing them to produce the good so that they aren’t the ones suffering the cost.

Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ is accessed from a nearby river via an intricate series of locks.

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History

The the a pair of vambraces of Invocation, an a pair of vambraces imbued with great amounts of Invocation energies was created in Chyameya Vâchæ Ulæ by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History