Lëpimt-bêle Bî

Lëpimt-bêle Bî (/ɪˈtëvɪ/ /ˈbɘle/ [painful] [enemy; rival]) is a subtropical Town located in the Lîsithapíe Zone of the Union of Engineers.

The name Lëpimt-bêle Bî is derived from the Iron Elvish language, as Lëpimt-bêle Bî was founded by Lessil Trgëmë, who was culturaly Iron Elven.

Climate

Lëpimt-bêle Bî has a yearly average temperature of 28°C (82°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a hot 32°C (89°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 25°C (77°F). Lëpimt-bêle Bî receives an average of 272 cm/y (107 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Lëpimt-bêle Bî covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 3690 m (12106 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Lëpimt-bêle Bî was founded durring the early 15th century in summer of the year 1400, by Lessil Trgëmë. The establishment of Lëpimt-bêle Bî suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Lëpimt-bêle Bî which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Lëpimt-bêle Bî was built using the conventions of Iron Elven durring the early 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Lëpimt-bêle Bî is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature waddle and daub construction with good timber frames and a stone foundation protected by thatched or shingled rooves. Most buildings with second floors are built in such a way as to overhang into the streets on the upper floors for more space, as building size seems to be the primary indicator of wealth within the community. Most buildings are not decorated with any integral features, but instead use ivy, flowers, and other natural elements in planters of on trellices to breathe life into the structure they grow upon.

Lëpimt-bêle Bî is buildings are arranged arround a network of restrictive cobblestone streets which form a diamond shaped grid, where each diamond verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller diamond has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The town emploies a series of defencive earthworks, spikes, and fences to provide some protection against wild beasts and smaller groups of intelegent foes. Lëpimt-bêle Bî's minimaly adiquite are suffering from significent damage, so much so that examples can be pointed to no matter which section one might have within their line of site, and most of which render sections inoperable at present.

Lëpimt-bêle Bî seems to be abandoned at first. There are people present, working their trades and going about their business like any community, it’s just they are absurdly quiet. Just as you start to think there might be trouble, you see most of them are reading. The entire town feels like a library, with those not reading remaining quite to not disturb those who have their nose in a book. The longer you remain in Lëpimt-bêle Bî the more you start to wonder if you’ve entered some strange open-concept University rather than a town, but you can’t quite say such with certainty.

Civic Infrastructure

Lëpimt-bêle Bî has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Lëpimt-bêle Bî.

Lëpimt-bêle Bî 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.

Lëpimt-bêle Bî 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.

Lëpimt-bêle Bî 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.

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

Lëpimt-bêle Bî possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

Lëpimt-bêle Bî has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Lëpimt-bêle Bî 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.

Cultural Notes

Lëpimt-bêle Bî'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.

Due to the actions of local Kami, spring is long in Lëpimt-bêle Bî.

The Ramidreju near Lëpimt-bêle Bî are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Lëpimt-bêle Bî's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves sacrificing an animal to channel Necromancy energies of tier 3 via mimery.

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.

Lëpimt-bêle Bî Census Data: Year 2000

391 of Lëpimt-bêle Bî's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 25 work in Agriculture
• 86 work as Craftsmen
• 31 work as Merchants
• 64 work as Service Workers
• 37 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 59 work as Civil Servants
• 38 work in Cottage Industries
• 18 work as Artists
• 21 work in Produce Industries

795 of Lëpimt-bêle Bî's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 103 (8%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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

POI

History

Lëpimt-bêle Bî is still bloodied by a recent violent conflict. A crushing bandit raid, a lost siege, getting caught at the periphery of a major battle, or some other calamity has inflicted severe damage on the place. Some communities may suffer a longer-term version of this, their youths lost in a grinding, endless battle against some perpetual threat.

The the a scimitar of Chronomancy, an a scimitar imbued with great amounts of Chronomancy energies was created near Lëpimt-bêle Bî by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History