Kad Tunk-kujmäp

Kad Tunk-kujmäp (/tunk/ /cujˈmɑp/ [strong; tough; solid; robust] [eye]) is a temperate Large City located in the Slïrddáms Principality of the Cochi.

The name Kad Tunk-kujmäp is derived from the Goblin language, as Kad Tunk-kujmäp was founded by Paivnirth, who was culturaly Gnoll.

Climate

Kad Tunk-kujmäp has a yearly average temperature of 6°C (42°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a cool 11°C (51°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 2°C (35°F). Kad Tunk-kujmäp receives an average of 207 cm/y (81 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the brutaly long winter months. Kad Tunk-kujmäp covers an area of nearly 62 km² (24 mi²), and an average elevation of 2636 m (8648 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Kad Tunk-kujmäp was founded in time immemorial, reportedly some time durring the late 8th century, by Paivnirth. The establishment of Kad Tunk-kujmäp was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Paivnirth struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Kad Tunk-kujmäp as a prison colony.

Kad Tunk-kujmäp was built using the conventions of Gnoll durring the late 8th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Kad Tunk-kujmäp 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 Tunk-kujmäp is buildings are speckled and packed arround restrictive cobblestone streets with seemingly no patern to them. It appears as if the city's residents simply built streets as they pleased and squeazed buildings in wherever and howeave rpossible, creating an organic, frustrating to navigate, maze of a city. 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specifications of millitary fortifications, but the nature of its clay brick construction leaves it vulnerable to even outdated siege equipment.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. The brittle defences have not been wellmaintained over the years, and while functional are in dire need of some loving care and perhapse light renovation.

Before you’ve even set foot into the heart of Kad Tunk-kujmäp, you can smell it. The incense. It hangs about the town like a cloud. Monks, priests, and clerics are everywhere, all dedicated to the same divine, all performing the same rituals to bless and anoint buildings, streets, people, animals, you name it they are or have blessed it. The same holy symbol is everywhere too. Its on buildings, on people, and even branded into livestock. This certainly loves its divine. Asside form the revrent worship, you can see the citizens are preparing for something, and that something isn’t good. Weapons are worn openly. Defensive structures have been recently constructed to guard less used areas of the city. Merchants seem very eager to sell their wares at discount prices. Something is coming.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Kad Tunk-kujmäp has an Theological Academy which trains clergy in various arcane and theological topics required for their occupations.

Kad Tunk-kujmäp 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 Tunk-kujmäp's grid is powered by an arcane means.

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

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

Kad Tunk-kujmäp 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 Tunk-kujmäp's natural decorations nor waterways.

Kad Tunk-kujmäp 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 Tunk-kujmäp 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 Tunk-kujmäp 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 Tunk-kujmäp 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

While Kad Tunk-kujmäp might ostensibly be ruled by some other power, real control lies with the senior members of the local craft and labor guilds. Their decisions have the practical weight of law, and much of their time and effort is spent squeezing out competitors and parceling out economic opportunities in the community. Some guilds might have little or nothing to do with their original trade, and now exist purely as shells for political influence.

Kad Tunk-kujmäp's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is admittedly strange and non-linear style rooted in defiance of symmetrical shapes. It championed the creation of buildings with a unique visual appearance. the structural norms of classic buildings and deforms or moves away from elementary architectural principles. By including non-linear designs processed into its buildings and favoring fragmentation, this style expressed a form of controlled chaos. Its buildings appear out-of-the-ordinary, draw the eye in immediately and sometimes create a feeling of strangeness. These distorted shapes and structure are not reserved to the building’s outer facade, they destabilize interior elements too, favoring minimalism and play on people’s perceptions by injecting a futuristic touch.

In Kad Tunk-kujmäp there are unidentifiable people in the fog, but it seems to be okay.

The Leopard (Cat, Great) near Kad Tunk-kujmäp are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Kad Tunk-kujmäp's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves consuming a local narcotic to channel Mysticism energies of tier 3 via guttural bellowing.

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 Tunk-kujmäp Census Data: Year 2000

5579 of Kad Tunk-kujmäp's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 304 work in Agriculture
• 1264 work as Craftsmen
• 454 work as Merchants
• 893 work as Service Workers
• 569 work as General Laborers
• 227 work as Skilled Laborers
• 778 work as Civil Servants
• 490 work in Cottage Industries
• 302 work as Artists
• 298 work in Produce Industries

8122 of Kad Tunk-kujmäp's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1191 (8%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Due to a magical anomaly, Kad Tunk-kujmäp is directly accessible from a nearby river, despite the lack of a physical connection between the town's pond and the river.

POI

History

The the a goblet of Charm, an a goblet imbued with great amounts of Charm energies was created in Kad Tunk-kujmäp by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History