Däcän Hoy Ckez

Däcän Hoy Ckez (/ɑːˈqɪ̘wʤ/ /hoʤ/ [experience] [tense]) is a subtropical Town located in Lîhi Mîyu County, Sipugehive Kingdom, within the United Kingdom of Undermountain.

The name Däcän Hoy Ckez is derived from the Dwarven language, as Däcän Hoy Ckez was founded by Zèsê Rebhal̄qug, who was culturaly Dwarvern.

Climate

Däcän Hoy Ckez has a yearly average temperature of 15°C (59°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 23°C (73°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 7°C (44°F). Däcän Hoy Ckez receives an average of 114 cm/y (44 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Däcän Hoy Ckez covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 6944 m (-20167 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Däcän Hoy Ckez was founded durring the early 15th century in winter of the year 1427, by Zèsê Rebhal̄qug. The establishment of Däcän Hoy Ckez 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.

Däcän Hoy Ckez was built using the conventions of Dwarvern durring the early 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Däcän Hoy Ckez is no diffrent. The town'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.

Däcän Hoy Ckez is buildings are arranged arrounded a highly ordered system of broad split-log ties streets which form triangular 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 town has a defencive wall made from querried stone. The wall is equipped with a full set of battlments but the nature of its construction methodology leaves it somewhat vulnerable to siege equipment. That said, the town is well defended against anything short of an army. The town's cost-cutting-focused defences have recently undergone extensive repairs and renovations, such that the repairwork is imeadiently apparent and can be spotted due to the diffring ages of materials. One can't help but wonder what brought the need for those repairs to the town.

Däcän Hoy Ckez has a very calm atmosphere. People can be seen relaxing, scocilizing, and going about all manner of business other than the daily grind. Men, women, children, all can be seen enjoying life in a laid-back way in the many parks which line Däcän Hoy Ckez’s streets. A look around Däcän Hoy Ckez 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 scutteling 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 everything together. Regardless, you do not feel it would be wise to remain in Däcän Hoy Ckez long.

Civic Infrastructure

Däcän Hoy Ckez 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.

Däcän Hoy Ckez has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Däcän Hoy Ckez.

Däcän Hoy Ckez 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.

Däcän Hoy Ckez has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Däcän Hoy Ckez 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.

Däcän Hoy Ckez 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.

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

Däcän Hoy Ckez has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Däcän Hoy Ckez 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.

Cultural Notes

One or more crime bosses have a powerful influence within Däcän Hoy Ckez. They may control crime within the community itself, or they may use it simply as a safe haven from which to direct their minions elsewhere. Local law enforcement may know all about them, but lack the strength to confront them and their paid or intimidated henchmen.

Däcän Hoy Ckez's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used which employed abundant symbolic geometry, using pure forms such as the circle and square, and plans are based on often symmetrical layouts featuring rectangular courtyards and halls. These structures were is decorated with carved stone or stucco reliefs and made use of colorful stone mosaics..

In Däcän Hoy Ckez sometimes, near one of the seasonal solstices, the sun appears to split into three and it rains from a clear sky for several hours.

The Giant hissing cockroach near Däcän Hoy Ckez are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Däcän Hoy Ckez's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves gestures to channel Summoning 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.

Däcän Hoy Ckez Census Data: Year 2000

380 of Däcän Hoy Ckez's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 25 work in Agriculture
• 81 work as Craftsmen
• 30 work as Merchants
• 62 work as Service Workers
• 38 work as General Laborers
• 13 work as Skilled Laborers
• 54 work as Civil Servants
• 38 work in Cottage Industries
• 20 work as Artists
• 19 work in Produce Industries

845 of Däcän Hoy Ckez's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 25 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Däcän Hoy Ckez's is something of a geological and arcane anomaly, as neither physical nor magical law entirely explains its formation.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century several years of heavy rains culminated in a peculiar disaster. A great hole opened up beneath Däcän Hoy Ckez, swallowing large sections of the community. Däcän Hoy Ckez lost 124 people, 151 livestock, and 84 buildings in the disaster. This disaster is often refereed to as The Death Swallowing.

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