Large City: Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ
Example Rattu architecture.

State	Warren
Provence	Àsu̹ Ûyu̹ Empire
Sub Provence	Chyâza Ûni Kingdom
Region	Vrar-awöw Holt
Founded	1070
Community Leader	Lord Zlepî
Area	197 km² (78 mi²)
Average Yearly Temp	6°C (42°F)
Average Elevation	3022 m (9914 ft)
Average Yearly Precipitation	225 cm/y (88 in/y)
Population	46268
Population Density	234 people per km² (593 people per mi²)
Town Aura	Necromancy
Naming
Native name	Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ
Pronunciation	/ˈluhɑ/ /ˈrəge/
Direct Translation	[excellent; fantastic; wonderful; fabulous; terrific; superb; fine (okay); amazing] [sequence; order]
Translation	[Not Yet Translated]

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ (/ˈluhɑ/ /ˈrəge/ [excellent; fantastic; wonderful; fabulous; terrific; superb; fine (okay); amazing] [sequence; order]) is a temperate Large City located in Chyâza Ûni Kingdom, Àsu̹ Ûyu̹ Empire, within the Warren.

The name Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ is derived from the Sylvin language, as Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ was founded by Brêpîga, who was culturaly Rattu.

Climate

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ has a yearly average temperature of 6°C (42°F), with its average temperature during the summer being an icy 25°C (77°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a freezing -12°C (11°F). Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ receives an average of 225 cm/y (88 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ covers an area of nearly 197 km² (78 mi²), and an average elevation of 3022 m (9914 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ was founded durring the late 12th century in winter of the year 1070, by Brêpîga. The establishment of Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ suffered from several major issues, resulting in the need to develop many solutions to basic problems. Problems such as a lack of fresh water, logistical support, poor quality tools, and the odd monster or two. Howeaver, these were overcome in time.

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ was built using the conventions of Rattu durring the late 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature delicute timber framework hidden behind layer upon layer of finly ground plaster bleached to an almost glossy white sheen, with green clay tiled roofs and decorative brass-leafed trim. Even the smallest, poorest looking structures appear to be expencive thanks to the extreem elegence of the organic shapes and paterns going into their lofty, spire-y, vagly gothic designs. The more well off folks live in identicle homes, save for even shiner trim and a more whimsical appearance to their structures flowing forms.

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of narrow cobblestone streets which form octogonal paterns, allowing the incides of the octagons to be common grounds for the buildings on the edges, be it for parkland, yardspace, plazas, or markets. The city is the proud owner of a properly designed set of renforced walls made from mighty querried stone blocks. Their construction and material choices would make a dwarf weap with joy, for each and every part of the elaborate fortifications are purly functional and robust well byond reason. Even nonexperts can tell the walls are an excelent defencive structure. The city's exceptionaly well made fortifications are visibly old, but also obviously maintained semi-regularly. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with ocasional mantance of the citys defences.

Right off the bat Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ 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. It’s easy to see where their wealth comes from the more you look arround. Every aspect of the city has been developed with care and great thought. The people themselves act deliberately and with care in even the simplest of daily actions.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ 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 Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ's parks.

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

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ 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.

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ 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.

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

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ 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.

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ 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.

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

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ has an Millitary Academy which trains military officers and specilists.

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ 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. Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

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

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. While not open to the public, the librarians and scholars employed by the library will assist anyone with their research needs, and wealthy individuals can purchase membership to access the library's materials themselves. In spite of being generally closed to the public, the library has a room with several Aether Linked devices available to the public during business hours.

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ 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 Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ's natural decorations nor waterways.

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ 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.

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ 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.

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ 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.

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ 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

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ has a long tradition of martial expertise. This may be a crisply-organized history of skilled native levies, or it may be a natural belligerence in the people that leaves them familiar with bloodshed. While their neighbors and liege doubtless respect their talents, this very aptitude might make them more willing to turn to steel than prudence would advise.

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by dynamic designs and complex architectural plan forms; intended to heighten feelings of motion and sensuality, and frequently based on the oval. It made extensive and extreme use of: Grandeur, Contrast, Curves and twists, Rich surface treatments, Gilded statuary, Bright colors, Vividly painted ceilings, Fragmented or deliberately incomplete elements, Large-scale frescoes, Dramatic central projections on an external facade, the use of plaster, stucco, or marble finishing, Illusory effects such as trompe l’oeil, and pear-shaped domes. While beloved by the nobility, the common folk tended to despise the style due to the massive consumption of resources required for even a small building constructed in this style.

In Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ sometimes, near one of the seasonal solstices, the sun appears to split into three and it rains from a clear sky for several hours.

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves consuming a local toxin to channel Transmutation energies of tier 3 via proclamations.

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.

Agriculture

Dairy Farmers: 99
Farmers: 144
Farm Laborer: 201
Hunters: 165
Milk Maids: 112
Ranchers: 60
Ranch Hands: 130
Shepherds: 112

Farmland: 186460 m²
Cattle and Similar Creatures: 11567
Poultry: 138804
Swine: 9253
Sheep: 462
Goats: 92
Horses, Mounts, and Beasts of Burden: 4626

Craftsmen

Arms and Toolmakers: 87
Blacksmiths: 105
Bookbinders: 57
Buckle-makers: 61
Cabinetmakers: 107
Candlemakers: 144
Carpenters: 146
Clothmakers: 128
Coach and Harness Makers: 48
Coopers: 121
Copper, Brass, Tin, Zinc, and Lead Workers: 62
Copyists: 45
Cutlers: 38
Fabricworkers: 110
Farrier: 298
Furriers: 30
Glassworkers: 159
Gunsmiths: 97
Harness-Makers: 46
Hatters: 84
Hosiery Workers: 34
Jewelers: 53
Leatherwrights: 115
Locksmiths: 48
Matchstick makers: 67
Musical Instrument Makers: 68
Painters, Structures and Fixtures: 58
Paper Workers: 68
Plasterers: 61
Pursemakers: 77
Roofers: 50
Ropemakers: 48
Rugmakers: 44
Saddlers: 87
Scabbardmakers: 106
Scalemakers: 48
Scientific, Surgical, and Optical Instrument Makers: 29
Sculptors, Structures and Fixtures: 42
Shoemakers: 44
Soap and Tallow Workers: 174
Tailors: 250
Tanners: 58
Upholsterers: 66
Watchmakers: 65
Weavers: 132
Whitesmiths: 37

Merchants

Adventuring Goods Retellers: 33
Arcana Sellers: 32
Beer-Sellers: 65
Booksellers: 69
Butchers: 121
Chandlers: 115
Chicken Butchers: 130
Entrepreneurs: 47
Fine Clothiers: 121
Fishmongers: 121
Florists: 27
Potion Sellers: 81
Resellers: 192
Spice Merchants: 60
Wine-sellers: 94
Wheelwright: 68
Woodsellers: 44

Service workers

Bakers: 243
Barbers: 174
Coachmen: 66
Cooks: 210
Doctors: 99
Gamekeepers: 74
Grooms: 41
Hairdressers: 165
Healers: 130
Housekeepers: 121
Housemaids: 289
House Stewards: 132
Inns: 45
Laundry maids: 88
Maidservants: 154
Nursery Maids: 77
Pastrycooks: 154
Restaurateur: 171
Tavern Keepers: 210

Specialized Laborer

Ashworkers: 67
Bleachers: 44
Chemical Workers: 25
Coal Heavers: 85
In-Town Couriers: 105
Long Haul Couriers: 110
Dockyard Workers: 96
Gas Workers: 23
Hay Merchants: 39
Leech Collectors: 117
Millers: 98
Miners: 107
Oilmen and Polishers: 73
Postmen: 105
Pure Finder: 63
Skinners: 140
Sugar Refiners: 26
Tosher: 72
Warehousemen: 159
Watercarriers: 101
Watermen, Bargemen, etc.: 140

Skilled Laborers

Accountants: 58
Alchemist: 65
Clerk: 100
Dentists: 45
Educators: 120
Engineers: 65
Gardeners: 46
Mages: 34
Plumbers: 50
Pharmacist: 55
Professors: 20
Scientists: 35
Wizards: 20

Civil Servants

Adventurers: 44
Bankers: 62
Civil Clerks: 100
Civic Iudex: 51
Consultants: 30
Exorcist: 105
Fixers: 53
Kami Clerk: 93
Landlords: 88
Lawyers: 56
Legend Keepers: 79
Militia Officers: 355
Monks, Monastic: 159
Monks, Civic: 140
Historian, Oral: 112
Historian, Textual: 54
Policemen, Sheriffs, etc.: 112
Priests: 185
Rangers: 63
Rat Catchers: 69
Scholars: 75
Spiritualist: 87
Slayers: 25
Storytellers: 205
Military Officers: 149

Cottage Industries

Brewers: 132
Comfort Services: 159
Enchanters: 51
Herbalists: 51
Jaminators: 144
Needleworkers: 177
Potters: 78
Preserve Makers: 140
Quilters: 67
Seamsters: 257
Spinners: 128
Tinker: 53
Weaver: 128

Artists

Actors: 47
Architects: 18
Bards: 72
Costumers: 27
Dancers: 53
Drafters: 29
Engravers: 37
Fine Furniture Carpenters: 22
Glaziers: 48
Inlayers: 44
Musicians: 140
Painters, Art: 23
Playwrights: 48
Sculptors, Art: 40
Wood Carvers: 159
Writers: 165

Produce Industries

Butter Churners: 154
Canners: 136
Cheesmakers: 159
Ice Merchants: 20
Millers: 90
Picklers: 79
Smokers: 60
Stockmakers: 50
Tobacconists: 71
Tallowmakers: 112

17416 of Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

25614 of Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 3238 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ has a substantial mill pond located a short distance from town.

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century, Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ was attacked by soldiers from another nation, waging a greater campaign. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ lost 142 people, 254 livestock, and 25 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 41, when members of Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ's militia enacted an operation to delay the operations of the enemy. The operation was complicated by an outbreak of plague which struck the ranks, killing many and laying low many more. The conflict ended with a last stand against the enemy until a particular event occurred, which ended in a stalemate for Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Luhâ Ràge Kâchyâ's bards, historians, and legend keepers.