Driyāzèkwa Gíhm

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm (Driyā /ˈzɛkwa/ [charcoal; fuel] [silence]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Vātuchàjù Region of the Tetburland.

The name Driyāzèkwa Gíhm is derived from the Sylvin language, as Driyāzèkwa Gíhm was founded by Amphilinae, who was culturaly Tauran.

Climate

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm has a yearly average temperature of 22°C (71°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 18°C (64°F). Driyāzèkwa Gíhm receives an average of 256 cm/y (100 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Driyāzèkwa Gíhm covers an area of nearly 189 km² (75 mi²), and an average elevation of 3446 m (11305 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm was founded durring the late 12th century in winter of the year 1078, by Amphilinae. The establishment of Driyāzèkwa Gíhm was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Driyāzèkwa Gíhm's construction back out of the project. Amphilinae pushed on reguardles, and Driyāzèkwa Gíhm was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm was built using the conventions of Tauran durring the late 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Driyāzèkwa Gíhm is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature stone brick construction with most buildings posessing towers, turrets, dormers, and wide wrap-around porches. An extreem emphasis on decorative features and emblishments can be seen even on the poorest of homes and makes even the most humble of structures seem a bit regal.

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm is is constructed arround a semi-circular premissive split-log ties mainstreet, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to eachother at varrious points. The city is the proud owner of a properly designed set of renforced walls made from mighty querried stone blocks. Their construction and material choices would make a dwarf weap with joy, for each and every part of the elaborate fortifications are purly functional and robust well byond reason. Even nonexperts can tell the walls are an excelent defencive structure. Driyāzèkwa Gíhm's exceptionaly well made fortifications are suffering from significent damage, so much so that examples can be pointed to no matter which section one might have within their line of site, and most of which render sections inoperable at present.

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm 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. There’s a patern to the panic. It’s not easy to see, and no one quite agrees on what it is, but the locals know and operate under this pattern. It shapes everything they do, and you feel as if you’ve almost worked it out only for some small detail to devastate your theory every time you try and comprehend it.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm 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 Driyāzèkwa Gíhm. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Driyāzèkwa Gíhm's parks.

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

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm 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.

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm 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.

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

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

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm 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.

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm 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.

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

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm has an Scientific Academy which provides higher education in the natural sciences.

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm 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. Driyāzèkwa Gíhm's grid is powered by a boiler and turbine based power plant.

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

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm 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.

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm 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 Driyāzèkwa Gíhm's natural decorations nor waterways.

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm 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.

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm 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.

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm 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.

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm 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

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is which made use of the classical orders and mathematically precise ratios of height and width combined with a desire for symmetry, proportion, and harmony. It used columns, pediments, arches and domes are imaginatively in buildings of all types. Decorative features were seen as largely unnecessary as the sheer beauty of the structure itself was often close to art. However, many buildings with large ceiling spaces had their ceilings decorated with elaborate paintings, simply because the large flat spaces could feel wasted.

In Driyāzèkwa Gíhm yeast remains dormant.

The Water Strider Swarm near Driyāzèkwa Gíhm are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves destroying a prepared ritual vessel to channel Transmutation energies of tier 2 via oath swearing.

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.

Driyāzèkwa Gíhm Census Data: Year 2000

17255 of Driyāzèkwa Gíhm's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 958 work in Agriculture
• 3769 work as Craftsmen
• 1367 work as Merchants
• 2625 work as Service Workers
• 1770 work as General Laborers
• 685 work as Skilled Laborers
• 2667 work as Civil Servants
• 1556 work in Cottage Industries
• 922 work as Artists
• 936 work in Produce Industries

25859 of Driyāzèkwa Gíhm's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1333 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

POI

History

The the a horn of Invocation, an a horn imbued with potent amounts of Invocation energies was created near Downholland Castle by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History