Kad Ghelá-wot

Kad Ghelá-wot (/ɪv/ /wot/ [temporary] [pea]) is a temperate Large City located in the Whïzdisg Principality of the Yastas.

The name Kad Ghelá-wot is derived from the Goblin language, as Kad Ghelá-wot was founded by Thugguhz, who was culturaly Gnoll.

Climate

Kad Ghelá-wot has a yearly average temperature of -1°C (31°F), with its average temperature during the summer being an icy 21°C (69°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a freezing -24°C (-11°F). Kad Ghelá-wot receives an average of 198 cm/y (77 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Kad Ghelá-wot covers an area of nearly 173 km² (69 mi²), and an average elevation of 5400 m (17716 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Kad Ghelá-wot was founded durring the early 11th century, by Thugguhz. The establishment of Kad Ghelá-wot was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Thugguhz struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Kad Ghelá-wot as a prison colony.

Kad Ghelá-wot was built using the conventions of Gnoll durring the early 11th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Kad Ghelá-wot is no diffrent. The city'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.

Kad Ghelá-wot is buildings are arranged arrounded a highly ordered system of narrow canals 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 city resides behind a palisade wall complete with battlments, a moat, and timber gatehouses with drawbridges. Kad Ghelá-wot's robustly designed timber walls are in an unremarkable state. To some, this is the ideal sate for defences to be in. In need of absoutly nothing, and ready to serve the city as needed.

A look around Kad Ghelá-wot makes it abundantly clear the city suffered something horrible some time ago. It's as if the town itself is depressed. Smiles are few, cheer is nowhere to be had. Everyone quietly goes about their daily business not looking anyone in the eye.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Kad Ghelá-wot has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Kad Ghelá-wot 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 Kad Ghelá-wot. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Kad Ghelá-wot's parks.

Kad Ghelá-wot has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Kad Ghelá-wot.

Kad Ghelá-wot 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.

Kad Ghelá-wot 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.

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

Kad Ghelá-wot has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Kad Ghelá-wot 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.

Kad Ghelá-wot 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.

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

Kad Ghelá-wot has an Scientific Academy which provides higher education in the natural sciences.

Kad Ghelá-wot 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. Kad Ghelá-wot's grid is powered by a boiler and turbine based power plant.

Kad Ghelá-wot's old civil lighting system was converted to Galvanic Lamps recently, and expanded to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Kad Ghelá-wot has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Kad Ghelá-wot 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.

Kad Ghelá-wot 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 Kad Ghelá-wot's natural decorations nor waterways.

Kad Ghelá-wot 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.

Kad Ghelá-wot 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.

Kad Ghelá-wot 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.

Kad Ghelá-wot 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

A substantial minority of the locals are descended from foreigners alien to their local neighbors. They may have been religious exiles, economic migrants, indigenous locals surrounded by the existing polity, or a foreign settlement conquered within the relatively recent past. The locals may not be enthusiastic about being ruled by others not of their kind, and their neighbors may look askance at the way foreign customs or even laws may be maintained.

Kad Ghelá-wot's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is best known for the combined use of arcuated and trabeated construction, employing arches and constructed with post and lintel. The arch served as the style's chief structural element, with flanking columns serving as buttresses or decorations. While the general shape of their structures could be generously described as simplistic, the use of these arches and columns created a most distinct ascetic which is easily distinguishable on sight to armatures and experts alike.

In Kad Ghelá-wot all of the cats speak the local language with prefect diction.

The Sandman near Kad Ghelá-wot are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Kad Ghelá-wot's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves consuming a local toxin to channel Enchantment energies of tier 1 via oratory performances.

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.

Kad Ghelá-wot Census Data: Year 2000

15145 of Kad Ghelá-wot's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 800 work in Agriculture
• 3425 work as Craftsmen
• 1222 work as Merchants
• 2233 work as Service Workers
• 1575 work as General Laborers
• 631 work as Skilled Laborers
• 2210 work as Civil Servants
• 1366 work in Cottage Industries
• 873 work as Artists
• 810 work in Produce Industries

23679 of Kad Ghelá-wot's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 2043 (5%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century a great storm brought so much rain to Kad Ghelá-wot. The resulting flood was isolated to the area around Kad Ghelá-wot, which was swallowed by the waters for several days. Kad Ghelá-wot lost 143 people, 399 livestock, and 27 buildings in the disaster. The disaster is remembered as the Death Drownings.

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