Kèr Kriyāvàm

Kèr Kriyāvàm (Kriyā /vəm/ [shovel] [nephew]) is a subtropical Large Town located in the Zåkräf Region of the Tetbur Commune.

The name Kèr Kriyāvàm is derived from the Tauric language, as Kèr Kriyāvàm was founded by Amber Upjohn Merwin, who was culturaly Tauric.

Climate

Kèr Kriyāvàm has a yearly average temperature of 23°C (73°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a hot 33°C (91°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 13°C (55°F). Kèr Kriyāvàm receives an average of 262 cm/y (103 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Kèr Kriyāvàm covers an area of nearly 6 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 1808 m (5931 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Kèr Kriyāvàm was founded durring the late 13th century in winter of the year 1163, by Amber Upjohn Merwin. The establishment of Kèr Kriyāvàm suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Kèr Kriyāvàm which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Kèr Kriyāvàm was built using the conventions of Tauric durring the late 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Kèr Kriyāvàm is no diffrent. The town'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.

Kèr Kriyāvàm is buildings are speckled and packed arround crampt worn bedrock streets with seemingly no patern to them. It appears as if the town'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 town. The town sits behind a stone-renforced palisade wall, with stone gatehouses and timber drawbridges for their trench. The town's would-be-castle fortifications have recently undergone extensive repairs and renovations, such that the repairwork is imeadiently apparent and can be spotted due to the diffring ages of materials. One can't help but wonder what brought the need for those repairs to the town.

Even the most brief look arround Kèr Kriyāvàm 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 Kèr Kriyāvàm, there’s even shrines to gods known to the region only through hearsay.

Civic Infrastructure

Kèr Kriyāvàm has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Kèr Kriyāvàm 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 Kèr Kriyāvàm. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Kèr Kriyāvàm's parks.

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

Kèr Kriyāvàm 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.

Kèr Kriyāvàm 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.

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

Kèr Kriyāvàm 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 Town. Kèr Kriyāvàm's grid is powered by a direct leyline tap.

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

Kèr Kriyāvàm 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 Kèr Kriyāvàm's natural decorations nor waterways.

Kèr Kriyāvàm 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.

Kèr Kriyāvàm 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.

Kèr Kriyāvàm 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

Kèr Kriyāvàm's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used makes use of a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse and symmetrical central-plan, resulting in buildings with a square central mass and four arms of equal length. Decorative features included domed rooves, arches, soaring spaces, and sumptuous decoration: marble columns and inlay, mosaics on the vaults, inlaid-stone pavements, and sometimes gold coffered ceilings.

In Kèr Kriyāvàm the water is caffeinated.

The Dallo near Kèr Kriyāvàm are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Kèr Kriyāvàm's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves sex to channel Augury energies of tier 2 via throat singing.

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.

Kèr Kriyāvàm Census Data: Year 2000

519 of Kèr Kriyāvàm's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 32 work in Agriculture
• 114 work as Craftsmen
• 44 work as Merchants
• 87 work as Service Workers
• 52 work as General Laborers
• 19 work as Skilled Laborers
• 75 work as Civil Servants
• 45 work in Cottage Industries
• 25 work as Artists
• 26 work in Produce Industries

1037 of Kèr Kriyāvàm's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 81 (5%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Kèr Kriyāvàm produces something unique, a good or service that cannot be had anywhere else in the kingdom. This may be due to some unique resource found only there, or some carefully-guarded craft, or it may be a special service that can only be provided by the locals, who are somehow unique in their forms or abilities.

Kèr Kriyāvàm makes use of canals for some of its streets. Locals often fish in the canals.

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History

The the a pair of goggles of Enchantment, an a pair of goggles imbued with notable amounts of Enchantment energies was created near Kèr Kriyāvàm by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History