Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä (/wɑ̄/ /kǔːŋiː/ [recent] [chord]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Bāwkyoīä Provence of the Hobben.

The name Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä is derived from the Goblin language, as Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä was founded by Prodes Giant Scarab Horn Caterpillar, who was culturaly Goblin.

Climate

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä has a yearly average temperature of 23°C (73°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 30°C (86°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 16°C (60°F). Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä receives an average of 271 cm/y (106 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä covers an area of nearly 152 km² (60 mi²), and an average elevation of 3036 m (9960 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä was founded durring the early 16th century in fall of the year 1507, by Prodes Giant Scarab Horn Caterpillar. The establishment of Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Prodes Giant Scarab Horn Caterpillar electing to pay people to resettle in Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä was built using the conventions of Goblin durring the early 16th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature timber framed wooden shiethed or brick construction, which gives form to a very formalized, rational, expence effishent arcatectural style based on strictly symmetrical designs which universaly feature pitched roofs, shutters, and the occasional column or pilaster for a decorative touch.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä is buildings are built arround a single crampt paverstone mainstreet which forms a counterclockwise spiral to give the city a over all circular shape. The city rests behind a thin stone wall. The wall's design was likly directly copied from a castle's parmiter defences. It's simply that the arcatect made Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä's wall substancialy thinner than a castle's walls. While the towers and gatehouses are adiquite, the obvious cost savings measure of making the walls drasticaly thinner reduces their ability to resist siege weapons greatly. The city's impressive-looking wall could fail at a critical moment in battle, and would likely not even resist a few bandits with improvised siege equipment. Astonishigly, the budget oriented are in pristine condishion, as if they had just been finished before you laied eyes upon them.

Right off the bat Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä 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. Somehow this city has come into quite a lot of wealth, and recently from the looks of things. The influx of wealth has brought with it an influx of relaxation. Everywhere you look people are enjoying their prosperity in a slow, casual, and deliberate manner. There’s no rush for anything anywhere you look.

Civic Infrastructure

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä possesses a Aethary Link for its accademic, government, and financial institutions. Public Aethary access is available through one or more of these intitutions.

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

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä 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 Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä's parks.

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

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä 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.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä 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.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä has a Guild of Nurses, which is tasked with caring for the elderly and infirm in accordance with local ordinances, religious values, and customs.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä 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.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä 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.

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

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä 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. Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä 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.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. The library is open to the public, including the Aether Link.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä 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 Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä's natural decorations nor waterways.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä 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.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä 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.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä 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.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä 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

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is which made use of the classical orders and mathematically precise ratios of height and width combined with a desire for symmetry, proportion, and harmony. It used columns, pediments, arches and domes are imaginatively in buildings of all types. Decorative features were seen as largely unnecessary as the sheer beauty of the structure itself was often close to art. However, many buildings with large ceiling spaces had their ceilings decorated with elaborate paintings, simply because the large flat spaces could feel wasted.

Due to the actions of local Kami, autumn is recurring in Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä.

The Serpentfolk near Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves sacrificing an animal to channel Augury energies of tier 2 via chanting.

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.

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä Census Data: Year 2000

13662 of Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 750 work in Agriculture
• 3130 work as Craftsmen
• 1087 work as Merchants
• 2078 work as Service Workers
• 1381 work as General Laborers
• 563 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1964 work as Civil Servants
• 1235 work in Cottage Industries
• 749 work as Artists
• 725 work in Produce Industries

20874 of Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1439 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä is accessed from a nearby river via an intricate series of locks.

POI

History

Almost every community has some problem with bandits and highwaymen, but Lë̋nḱ Cǔ̄ngy Ni̋ēkēä is seriously plagued with raiders. One or more groups of persistent plunderers are hitting the community repeatedly, and they lack the necessary resources to fend them off or protect all their holdings.

The the a padded cloth hauberk of Mysticism, an a padded cloth hauberk imbued with notable amounts of Mysticism energies was created in Len Castle by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History