Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy

Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy (/jæ̌ŋ/ /zűːæ/ [red] [ministry]) is a subtropical Town located in the Gīmōthyǎvy Region of the Confederation of Goblin Tribes.

The name Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy is derived from the Goblin language, as Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy was founded by G̈îb Tshel Mocthê, who was culturaly Goblin.

Climate

Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy has a yearly average temperature of 13°C (55°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 27°C (80°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a freezing 0°C (32°F). Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy receives an average of 302 cm/y (118 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy covers an area of nearly 6 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 3016 m (9895 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy was founded durring the late 14th century in winter of the year 1261, by G̈îb Tshel Mocthê. The establishment of Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed G̈îb Tshel Mocthê struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy as a prison colony.

Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy was built using the conventions of Goblin durring the late 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy 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.

Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy is is constructed arround a semi-circular premissive packed earth mainstreet, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to eachother at varrious points. The town has a defencive wall made from querried stone. The wall is equipped with a full set of battlments but the nature of its construction methodology leaves it somewhat vulnerable to siege equipment. That said, the town is well defended against anything short of an army. The town's cost-cutting-focused defences are visibly old, but also obviously well maintained. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with routine mantance of the town's defences.

A look around Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy seems to be home to a quite vibrant and boisterous community. Everywhere one looks they can see people going out their daily business with a smile and a spring in their step. Children play loudly in the streets, causing untold havoc as youth are want and allowed to do. On second glance, that chaos continues into adulthood. People seem to be allowed to do as they please with little harmoney to anything. It feels less like a town, and more like a spot people just happened to place their homes. Yet there are small elements here and there which show the underlying structure of the community. It’s just so complex, organic, and flowing one can only understand what is a piece of the puzzle, but not what its neighbors are.

Civic Infrastructure

Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy 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 Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy's parks.

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

Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy 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.

Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy 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.

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

Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy 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 Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy's natural decorations nor waterways.

Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy 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.

Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy 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

Two or more groups of citizens within Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy hate each other. Their neighbors or the local law have kept things from too-overt violence, but members of the groups will constantly interfere with their rivals and cause whatever misery they can get away with. This hate may spring from recent events, or it may be an inherited spite from old wrongs.

Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known for its buildings being predominantly formed through the combination of basic geometric shapes. However, it shown in the detailing given to the structures such as its characteristic tall columns, intricate detail, symmetry, harmony, and balance in their designs to an astonishing degree of precision. Decorative elements for the buildings tended to be built into the structure itself, making great use of fluting, frescoes, inlays, and embossing.

Due to the actions of local Kami, spring is long in Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy.

The Azer near Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves consuming a local narcotic to channel Charm energies of tier 2 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.

Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy Census Data: Year 2000

464 of Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 28 work in Agriculture
• 100 work as Craftsmen
• 38 work as Merchants
• 78 work as Service Workers
• 49 work as General Laborers
• 17 work as Skilled Laborers
• 68 work as Civil Servants
• 42 work in Cottage Industries
• 21 work as Artists
• 23 work in Produce Industries

937 of Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 58 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Lān Zű̄ä Vǖy has a substantial mill pond located a short distance from town.

POI

History

The the a suit of Lamellar armour of Mysticism, an a suit of Lamellar armour imbued with notable amounts of Mysticism energies was created near Lamnàj̼ Se by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History