Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij

Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij (/jujj/ /hɪr siʤ/ [lazy] [potato]) is a temperate City located in the Mididïleghi Principality of the Nutheli.

The name Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij is derived from the Goblin language, as Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij was founded by Hrihzarh, who was culturaly Gnoll.

Climate

Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij has a yearly average temperature of 1°C (33°F), with its average temperature during the summer being an icy 27°C (80°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold -24°C (-11°F). Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij receives an average of 229 cm/y (90 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij covers an area of nearly 33 km² (13 mi²), and an average elevation of 3182 m (10439 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij was founded durring the early 13th century in fall of the year 1210, by Hrihzarh. The establishment of Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Hrihzarh electing to pay people to resettle in Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij.

Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij was built using the conventions of Gnoll durring the early 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature plaster covered brickwork used to form structures with an emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts. Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches and aediculae can be found everywhere such that only size of building and yard can be used to measure the general prosparity of a given building's owners due to a general wealthy feeling the style gives off.

Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij is buildings folow an organic layout of crampt paverstone streets whihch gives the city a shape simmilar to a tree, if one views its streets from above. The city is the proud owner of a thick set of fortified walls fashioned from querried stone blocks. While not up to snuff for a fort or castle wall, the city's walls are naturaly much larger than those of forts or castles. Therefore, the construction such a wall is most expencive. Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij's buget focused wall would serve its community well in battle in spite of looking unimpressive compared to castles and fortresses. The top tier civilian fortifications have not been wellmaintained over the years, and while functional are in dire need of some loving care and perhapse light renovation.

Right off the bat Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij hits you in the face with its success. Everyone, even the peasants, are dressed in well made clothing. Every tool and implement you can see is finely made, and people will boast to you as obvious strangers of the wonders which can be found in their markets. More interestingly is a total lack of beggars, and plenty of new buildings are going up even as you speak. Many of those buildings are schools, scriptoriums, and even one college. One can only wonder what knowledge the town has come into.

Civic Infrastructure

Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij 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.

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

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

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

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

Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij 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 City. Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. In spite of the Galvanic Grid, these lights continue to use their old fule sources to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij 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 Sáidi-hïr Sij's natural decorations nor waterways.

Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij 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 Sáidi-hïr Sij 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 Sáidi-hïr Sij 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

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 Sáidi-hïr Sij's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is best known for its striking sculptural forms and often dazzling ornamental detail that characterizes the buildings general shape. The radiant colors, rich patterns, and symmetrical silhouettes employed by this style were backed up by rich decorative features including gardens, courtyards, extruded arches, domes, pointed domes, vaulted ceilings, elaborate painted and inlaid designs, and decorative sculptures.

In Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij most nights are accompanied by colorful ribbons of light in the sky.

The Eye Sentinel near Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves orgies to channel Augury 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.

Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij Census Data: Year 2000

2905 of Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 158 work in Agriculture
• 627 work as Craftsmen
• 234 work as Merchants
• 449 work as Service Workers
• 301 work as General Laborers
• 117 work as Skilled Laborers
• 455 work as Civil Servants
• 250 work in Cottage Industries
• 155 work as Artists
• 159 work in Produce Industries

4682 of Kad Sáidi-hïr Sij's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 316 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century a local hero by the name of secured a clean water supply for . A small order of knights was founded in 's honor, and bears his name to this day.

History