Ckÿph Lepm Owy

Ckÿph Lepm Owy (/lipm/ /owʤ/ [vein] [lump]) is a subtropical Large City located in Dåtowy Hold, Nar Province, within the United Kingdom of Undermountain.

The name Ckÿph Lepm Owy is derived from the Dwarven language, as Ckÿph Lepm Owy was founded by Nalwin Härtedrayd, who was culturaly Dwarvern.

Climate

Ckÿph Lepm Owy has a yearly average temperature of 21°C (69°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 26°C (78°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 16°C (60°F). Ckÿph Lepm Owy receives an average of 271 cm/y (106 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Ckÿph Lepm Owy covers an area of nearly 274 km² (109 mi²), and an average elevation of 1168 m (3832 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Ckÿph Lepm Owy was founded durring the early 12th century in summer of the year 1145, by Nalwin Härtedrayd. The establishment of Ckÿph Lepm Owy was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Nalwin Härtedrayd electing to pay people to resettle in Ckÿph Lepm Owy.

Ckÿph Lepm Owy was built using the conventions of Dwarvern durring the early 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Ckÿph Lepm Owy is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature delicute timber framework hidden behind layer upon layer of finly ground plaster bleached to an almost glossy white sheen, with green clay tiled roofs and decorative brass-leafed trim. Even the smallest, poorest looking structures appear to be expencive thanks to the extreem elegence of the organic shapes and paterns going into their lofty, spire-y, vagly gothic designs. The more well off folks live in identicle homes, save for even shiner trim and a more whimsical appearance to their structures flowing forms.

Ckÿph Lepm Owy is buildings are grouped arround an odd layout of broad packed earth streets, which seems to be based on an overlapping squair patern such that there are small squares at the cornor of every bigger square. Sometimes buildings exist in the smaller squaires, other times they are open spaces, or occupied by temporary structures. The city is defended by arcane means. It's hard to spot at first, but there's a tell tell shimmer in the air arround Ckÿph Lepm Owy, and you can spot the ocasional warding glyph carved into a rock or tree all arround town. These mystical defences are ancient, unknowable, and unassailable by current means... Assuming everything is in working order. Otherwise, the wards are little more than a deathtrap. Astonishigly, the Relic of the World That Was are in pristine condishion, as if they had just been finished before you laied eyes upon them.

Even the most brief look arround Ckÿph Lepm Owy has a good chance of putting a church or shrine into the center of your view. The city is most certainly a god fearing community. It’s also definitely a god loving community. THe streetcornors are occupied by preachers, with the occasional intersection playing host to an actually friendly debate relating to the merits of various gods. Even the less popular as well as the less politically loved gods seem to have a space in Ckÿph Lepm Owy, there’s even shrines to gods known to the region only through hearsay.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

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

Ckÿph Lepm Owy has an Millitary Academy which trains military officers and specilists.

Ckÿph Lepm Owy 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 Lepm Owy's grid is powered by hydrogalvanic generators.

Ckÿph Lepm Owy's old civil lighting system was converted to Galvanic Lamps recently, and expanded to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

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

Ckÿph Lepm Owy 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.

Ckÿph Lepm Owy 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 Lepm Owy's natural decorations nor waterways.

Ckÿph Lepm Owy 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 Lepm Owy 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 Lepm Owy 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 Lepm Owy 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 Lepm Owy's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by dynamic designs and complex architectural plan forms; intended to heighten feelings of motion and sensuality, and frequently based on the oval. It made extensive and extreme use of: Grandeur, Contrast, Curves and twists, Rich surface treatments, Gilded statuary, Bright colors, Vividly painted ceilings, Fragmented or deliberately incomplete elements, Large-scale frescoes, Dramatic central projections on an external facade, the use of plaster, stucco, or marble finishing, Illusory effects such as trompe l’oeil, and pear-shaped domes. While beloved by the nobility, the common folk tended to despise the style due to the massive consumption of resources required for even a small building constructed in this style.

In Ckÿph Lepm Owy every night at precisely midnight every structure in town is engulfed by sailors fire until the end of the witching hour.

The Snake, Cobra (Emperor) near Ckÿph Lepm Owy are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Ckÿph Lepm Owy's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves gestures to channel Abjuration 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.

Ckÿph Lepm Owy Census Data: Year 2000

24629 of Ckÿph Lepm Owy's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 1312 work in Agriculture
• 5543 work as Craftsmen
• 1973 work as Merchants
• 3638 work as Service Workers
• 2516 work as General Laborers
• 1004 work as Skilled Laborers
• 3823 work as Civil Servants
• 2143 work in Cottage Industries
• 1344 work as Artists
• 1333 work in Produce Industries

37903 of Ckÿph Lepm Owy's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1933 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Ckÿph Lepm Owy 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.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century the Kami blessed the town with good fortune for a year and a day. One of Ckÿph Lepm Owy's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History