Kad Ghididi-tog

Kad Ghididi-tog (/sdæ̝dˈnumnulˌni/ /tog/ [boring] [revolution]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Sluptprond Principality of the Koiapi.

The name Kad Ghididi-tog is derived from the Goblin language, as Kad Ghididi-tog was founded by Fyêthonho, who was culturaly Gnoll.

Climate

Kad Ghididi-tog has a yearly average temperature of 6°C (42°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a cool 12°C (53°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 1°C (33°F). Kad Ghididi-tog receives an average of 230 cm/y (90 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Kad Ghididi-tog covers an area of nearly 200 km² (80 mi²), and an average elevation of 7388 m (-18710 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Kad Ghididi-tog was founded durring the late 16th century in spring of the year 1562, by Fyêthonho. The establishment of Kad Ghididi-tog was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Fyêthonho electing to pay people to resettle in Kad Ghididi-tog.

Kad Ghididi-tog was built using the conventions of Gnoll durring the late 16th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Kad Ghididi-tog is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature masoned stone construction which prominantly features pointed arches, pointed ribbed vault cielings, flying buttress', and window tracery all of which share a simmilar gemoetetic patern halfway between organic and inorganic in design formaing a very distinct aesthetically integrated style. BUildings tend to reach for the havens, and more expencive homes are easily identified by their floor count as well as the addition of decorative features intigrated into the building's design such as statues, gargoyals, and embelished joinery.

Kad Ghididi-tog is is constructed arround a semi-circular restrictive gravel mainstreet, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to eachother at varrious points. The city has a defencive wall made from large clay bricks. The wall is constructed to the exact specifications of millitary fortifications, but the nature of its clay brick construction leaves it vulnerable to even outdated siege equipment. That said, the city is well defended against anything short of an army. Astonishigly, the brittle defences are in pristine condishion, as if they had just been finished before you laied eyes upon them.

A quick look in any direction shows Kad Ghididi-tog is filled with vices. There are many taverns, brothels are advertising their services on the streets, cardsharks are plying their illicit trade within public squairs, and every shop has at least three signs advertising various sales on goods. That alone wouldn’t be too noticeable, if it wasn’t just so omnipresent and overwhelmingly how the people of this city live. Or if the general public wasn’t so enthusiastically, openly, and merrily participating in these activities.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

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

Kad Ghididi-tog has an Administrative Academy which trains individuals in the administrative arts.

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

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

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

Kad Ghididi-tog 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.

Kad Ghididi-tog 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 Ghididi-tog's natural decorations nor waterways.

Kad Ghididi-tog 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 Ghididi-tog 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 Ghididi-tog 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 Ghididi-tog 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

Religious leaders are influential in almost any community, but in Kad Ghididi-tog they make up the final authorities. It may be an explicit theocracy, with rule by the clerics of a particular faith, or a temple might be so important and powerful that the official leaders are helpless to resist its will. The locals can be expected to be loyal adherents to the faith, or else the less pious majority is deeply intimidated by the religion’s believers.

Kad Ghididi-tog's chapel 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.

Due to the actions of local Kami, autumn is recurring in Kad Ghididi-tog.

The Skinwraith near Kad Ghididi-tog are known to be quite timid.

Kad Ghididi-tog's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves gestures to channel Abjuration energies of tier 2 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 Ghididi-tog Census Data: Year 2000

17773 of Kad Ghididi-tog's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 994 work in Agriculture
• 3972 work as Craftsmen
• 1433 work as Merchants
• 2678 work as Service Workers
• 1845 work as General Laborers
• 707 work as Skilled Laborers
• 2566 work as Civil Servants
• 1615 work in Cottage Industries
• 1010 work as Artists
• 953 work in Produce Industries

28154 of Kad Ghididi-tog's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 937 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Kad Ghididi-tog is accessed from a nearby river via an intricate series of locks.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century the Kami spared the town a natural disaster. One of Kad Ghididi-tog's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History