Ckÿph Yaz Dab

Ckÿph Yaz Dab (/jaz/ /dab/ [humble; modest; shy] [lung]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Brasleroe County of the Kingdom of Hobben.

The name Ckÿph Yaz Dab is derived from the Dwarven language, as Ckÿph Yaz Dab was founded by Zèlëm Zÿhbafral, who was culturaly Dwarvern.

Climate

Ckÿph Yaz Dab has a yearly average temperature of 26°C (78°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a hot 31°C (87°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 22°C (71°F). Ckÿph Yaz Dab receives an average of 298 cm/y (117 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Ckÿph Yaz Dab covers an area of nearly 269 km² (107 mi²), and an average elevation of 1958 m (6423 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Ckÿph Yaz Dab was founded durring the late 13th century in winter of the year 1185, by Zèlëm Zÿhbafral. The establishment of Ckÿph Yaz Dab was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Ckÿph Yaz Dab's construction back out of the project. Zèlëm Zÿhbafral pushed on reguardles, and Ckÿph Yaz Dab was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

Ckÿph Yaz Dab was built using the conventions of Dwarvern durring the late 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Ckÿph Yaz Dab 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.

Ckÿph Yaz Dab is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of crampt cobblestone 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 resides behind a palisade wall complete with battlments, a moat, and timber gatehouses with drawbridges. The robustly designed timber walls has suffered a visible ammount of structural damage, leaving them effectivly useless. One can't help but wonder why the has not yet effected repairs.

A look around Ckÿph Yaz Dab seems to be home to a quite vibrant and boisterous community. Everywhere one looks they can see people going out their daily business with a smile and a spring in their step. Children play loudly in the streets, causing untold havoc as youth are want and allowed to do. On second glance, that chaos continues into adulthood. People seem to be allowed to do as they please with little harmoney to anything. It feels less like a city, and more like a spot people just happened to place their homes. Yet there are small elements here and there which show the underlying structure of the community. It’s just so complex, organic, and flowing one can only understand what is a piece of the puzzle, but not what its neighbors are.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Ckÿph Yaz Dab has an Millitary Academy which trains military officers and specilists.

Ckÿph Yaz Dab 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 Yaz Dab's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

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

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

Ckÿph Yaz Dab 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 Yaz Dab 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 Yaz Dab's natural decorations nor waterways.

Ckÿph Yaz Dab 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 Yaz Dab 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 Yaz Dab 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 Yaz Dab 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 Yaz Dab's locals despise outsiders. For some “outsiders” may be natives of foreign lands, while others might have a grudge against anyone from outside the community. These locals have an active loathing, and the outsiders allowed to trade or interact with them do so at a heavy disadvantage.

Ckÿph Yaz Dab's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by grandeur of scale, simplicity of geometric forms, dramatic use of columns, and a preference for blank walls. This design ethos extended to re-imagining earlier styles of structure to create them anew, with a similar overall look and feel to one another..

Due to the actions of local Kami, summer is short in Ckÿph Yaz Dab.

The Elusa Hound near Ckÿph Yaz Dab are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Ckÿph Yaz Dab's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves gestures to channel Charm energies of tier 1 via throat singing.

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 Yaz Dab Census Data: Year 2000

24125 of Ckÿph Yaz Dab's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 1250 work in Agriculture
• 5413 work as Craftsmen
• 1914 work as Merchants
• 3657 work as Service Workers
• 2478 work as General Laborers
• 990 work as Skilled Laborers
• 3580 work as Civil Servants
• 2282 work in Cottage Industries
• 1334 work as Artists
• 1227 work in Produce Industries

37645 of Ckÿph Yaz Dab's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1910 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century a local hero by the name of protected Ckÿph Yaz Dab's harvest from an army of bandits. The recitation of the hero's story remains a popular tavern and fair tale.

History