Fìkh Sfo Mìn

Fìkh Sfo Mìn (/sfo/ /mɨn/ [off white] [thunder]) is a subtropical Town located in the Rm-96pyohěkhka District of the Federation of Alveria.

The name Fìkh Sfo Mìn is derived from the Constructi language, as Fìkh Sfo Mìn was founded by Eluneth Zëmê, who was culturaly Constructi.

Climate

Fìkh Sfo Mìn has a yearly average temperature of 26°C (78°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 30°C (86°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 23°C (73°F). Fìkh Sfo Mìn receives an average of 217 cm/y (85 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Fìkh Sfo Mìn covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 3246 m (10649 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Fìkh Sfo Mìn was founded durring the early 13th century in winter of the year 1231, by Eluneth Zëmê. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Fìkh Sfo Mìn was built using the conventions of Constructi durring the early 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Fìkh Sfo Mìn is no diffrent. The town'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.

Fìkh Sfo Mìn is buildings are arranged within a network of spacious baked earthen streets which form a rectangular grid, where each block verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller block has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The town resides behind a palisade wall complete with battlments, a moat, and timber gatehouses with drawbridges. Fìkh Sfo Mìn's robustly designed timber walls 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.

Even the most brief look arround Fìkh Sfo Mìn has a good chance of putting a church or shrine into the center of your view. The town 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 Fìkh Sfo Mìn, there’s even shrines to gods known to the region only through hearsay.

Civic Infrastructure

Fìkh Sfo Mìn 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 Fìkh Sfo Mìn. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Fìkh Sfo Mìn's parks.

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

Fìkh Sfo Mìn 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.

Fìkh Sfo Mìn 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.

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

Fìkh Sfo Mìn 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 Town. Fìkh Sfo Mìn's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

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

Fìkh Sfo Mìn 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 Fìkh Sfo Mìn's natural decorations nor waterways.

Fìkh Sfo Mìn 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.

Fìkh Sfo Mìn 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.

Cultural Notes

Fìkh Sfo Mìn's garrison 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.

Due to the actions of local Kami, spring is long in Fìkh Sfo Mìn.

The Botfly, Giant near Fìkh Sfo Mìn are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Fìkh Sfo Mìn's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves ritual combat to channel Transmutation energies of tier 1 via recitation of scripture.

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.

Fìkh Sfo Mìn Census Data: Year 2000

407 of Fìkh Sfo Mìn's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 25 work in Agriculture
• 92 work as Craftsmen
• 32 work as Merchants
• 67 work as Service Workers
• 40 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 60 work as Civil Servants
• 38 work in Cottage Industries
• 20 work as Artists
• 21 work in Produce Industries

832 of Fìkh Sfo Mìn's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 79 (6%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Due to a magical anomaly, Fìkh Sfo Mìn is directly accessible from a nearby river, despite the lack of a physical connection between the town's pond and the river.

POI

History

Almost every community has some problem with bandits and highwaymen, but Fìkh Sfo Mìn is seriously plagued with raiders. One or more groups of persistent plunderers are hitting the community repeatedly, and they lack the necessary resources to fend them off or protect all their holdings.

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century a local hero by the name of protected Fìkh Sfo Mìn's harvest from an army of bandits. One of Fìkh Sfo Mìn's festivals remembers the hero.

History