Lō-fiëd Vrët

Lō-fiëd Vrët (/loː/ /fjɛd/ [romance] [array; spectrum]) is a subtropical Town located in the Jaz̄omaka District of the Federation of Alveria.

The name Lō-fiëd Vrët is derived from the Wood Elvish language, as Lō-fiëd Vrët was founded by Èqthèdsh Dhando, who was culturaly Wood Elven.

Climate

Lō-fiëd Vrët has a yearly average temperature of 23°C (73°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 28°C (82°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 18°C (64°F). Lō-fiëd Vrët receives an average of 137 cm/y (53 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Lō-fiëd Vrët covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 5486 m (17998 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Lō-fiëd Vrët was founded durring the late 11th century, by Èqthèdsh Dhando. The establishment of the new community went well, though many minor issues had to be solved as time went on. This was enough to delay construction and push back the formal opening ceramony, leading to some embarisment for Èqthèdsh Dhando.

Lō-fiëd Vrët was built using the conventions of Wood Elven durring the late 11th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Lō-fiëd Vrët is no diffrent. The town'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.

Lō-fiëd Vrët is buildings are speckled and packed arround premissive cobblestone 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 rests behind a thick wall made from clay bricks. The wall has all of the proper fortifications and is well made. Unfortuantly the nature of clay brick leaves it quite vulnerable to siege equipment, though the thickness of the wall lends it simmilar resistnace to a thinner hardrock wall. Astonishigly, the millitarily questionable fortifications are in pristine condishion, as if they had just been finished before you laied eyes upon them.

A look around Lō-fiëd Vrët 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

Lō-fiëd Vrët has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Lō-fiëd Vrët.

Lō-fiëd Vrët 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.

Lō-fiëd Vrët 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.

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

Lō-fiëd Vrët has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Lō-fiëd Vrët has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Lō-fiëd Vrët 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

Lō-fiëd Vrët's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by grandeur of scale, simplicity of geometric forms, dramatic use of columns, and a preference for blank walls. This design ethos extended to re-imagining earlier styles of structure to create them anew, with a similar overall look and feel to one another..

In Lō-fiëd Vrët the utterance of expletives is impossible within city limits. This has changed as the limits have changed, but has not kept up with slang, or swearing in foreign languages.

The Achaierai near Lō-fiëd Vrët are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Lō-fiëd Vrët's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves sex to channel Mysticism energies of tier 3 via recitation of poetic epics.

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.

Lō-fiëd Vrët Census Data: Year 2000

404 of Lō-fiëd Vrët's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 27 work in Agriculture
• 88 work as Craftsmen
• 32 work as Merchants
• 65 work as Service Workers
• 37 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 62 work as Civil Servants
• 40 work in Cottage Industries
• 21 work as Artists
• 20 work in Produce Industries

882 of Lō-fiëd Vrët's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 26 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Lō-fiëd Vrët was unknowingly built atop something unstable, and now that substrate is crumbling. It may be swampy ground or a decaying coastline, or it could be an ancient buried city that’s now giving way. In the case of some antique habitation, the denizens that once lived there might be boiling upward as their home is collapsing, or new opportunities may be revealed even as the community’s present structure is ruined.

The center of Lō-fiëd Vrët's town square was built around an ancient standing stone.

POI

History

The the a suit of Ring armour of Truename Magic, an a suit of Ring armour imbued with notable amounts of Truename Magic energies was created near Lō-fiëd Vrët by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History