Ckÿph Däca Helz

Ckÿph Däca Helz (/ˈlɑrɪː/ /helz/ [stiff; sturdy; tight] [foam]) is a temperate Large City located in Vÿtÿhvuq Hold, Sharbiz Province, within the United Kingdom of Undermountain.

The name Ckÿph Däca Helz is derived from the Dwarven language, as Ckÿph Däca Helz was founded by Yakdraetrude Rebckezqug, who was culturaly Dwarvern.

Climate

Ckÿph Däca Helz has a yearly average temperature of 16°C (60°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a cool 20°C (68°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 13°C (55°F). Ckÿph Däca Helz receives an average of 243 cm/y (95 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Ckÿph Däca Helz covers an area of nearly 266 km² (106 mi²), and an average elevation of 944 m (3097 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Ckÿph Däca Helz was founded durring the early 17th century in early fall of the year 1604, by Yakdraetrude Rebckezqug. The establishment of Ckÿph Däca Helz suffered from several major issues, resulting in the need to develop many solutions to basic problems. Problems such as a lack of fresh water, logistical support, poor quality tools, and the odd monster or two. Howeaver, these were overcome in time.

Ckÿph Däca Helz was built using the conventions of Dwarvern durring the early 17th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Ckÿph Däca Helz 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.

Ckÿph Däca Helz is was constructed arround several crampt paverstone mainstreets which cross one another at certain axies, with smaller streets branching off of them to premit acess to the many buildings deeper into the road network. The overall fashion is remenessent of a circulatory system, or other organic construct, and is quite effishent in its design. The city posesses a mighty albit amaturly crafted stone wall. It was built using querried stone blocks and posesses all of the standard defencive features, including a few watch towers. While it would last against a siege, the wall's outdated and simplistic construction method percludes the possability of Ckÿph Däca Helz weathering a full scale bombardment durring a siege. The budget focused millitary grade defenses have not been wellmaintained over the years, and while functional are in dire need of some loving care and perhapse light renovation.

Ckÿph Däca Helz is not quite well. Something happened here, perhapse recently, perhapse long ago. Whatever it was, it settled into the very soul of the city like a festering wound. The people go about their day well enough, but there’s a tention in the air you can cut with a knife. You get the terrible feeling that whatever it was, the wound it left will simply never heal. This city is as a necropolice.

Civic Infrastructure

Ckÿph Däca Helz possesses a city-wide Aethary Link which provides Aethary access anywhere within its metropolitan. This allows citizens who can afford the relevant devices access in their places of work, and rarely homes.

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

Ckÿph Däca Helz 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 Ckÿph Däca Helz. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Ckÿph Däca Helz's parks.

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

Ckÿph Däca Helz 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.

Ckÿph Däca Helz 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.

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

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

Ckÿph Däca Helz 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.

Ckÿph Däca Helz 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.

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

Ckÿph Däca Helz has an Arts Academy which provides higher education in many fields including math, language arts, philosophy, engineering, and other such disciplines.

Ckÿph Däca Helz 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. Ckÿph Däca Helz's grid is powered by a god's will and kindness.

Ckÿph Däca Helz 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.

Ckÿph Däca Helz has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Ckÿph Däca Helz 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.

Ckÿph Däca Helz 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 Ckÿph Däca Helz's natural decorations nor waterways.

Ckÿph Däca Helz 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.

Ckÿph Däca Helz 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.

Ckÿph Däca Helz 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.

Ckÿph Däca Helz 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

Ckÿph Däca Helz's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by towering round arches, massive stone and brickwork, small windows, thick walls, and a propensity for housing art and sculpture depicting mythological scenes. The building's general shape would be a clever and ascetic combination of geometric shapes, which would be blended together by joining elements. The style's decorative features were largely internal rather than external and incorporated semicircular arches for windows, doors, and arcades; barrel or groin vaults to support the roof of the nave; massive piers and walls, with few windows, to contain the outward thrust of the vaults; side aisles with galleries above them..

Due to the actions of local Kami, autumn is long in Ckÿph Däca Helz.

The Unicorn near Ckÿph Däca Helz are known to be quite timid.

Ckÿph Däca Helz's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves creating small tokens to channel Mysticism energies of tier 3 via divine sermons.

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.

Ckÿph Däca Helz Census Data: Year 2000

23956 of Ckÿph Däca Helz's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 1377 work in Agriculture
• 5499 work as Craftsmen
• 1965 work as Merchants
• 3606 work as Service Workers
• 2410 work as General Laborers
• 984 work as Skilled Laborers
• 3386 work as Civil Servants
• 2107 work in Cottage Industries
• 1317 work as Artists
• 1305 work in Produce Industries

36136 of Ckÿph Däca Helz's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 3162 (5%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Ckÿph Däca Helz is known for its odd use of round-a-bouts, small ring roads used in place of intersections.

POI

History

The the a tablet of Charm, an a tablet imbued with potent amounts of Charm energies was created in Ckÿph Däca Helz by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History