Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi

Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi (/vɪˈjə˞/ /vjaˈujj/ [reverse] [monster; beast]) is a temperate Town located in the Mididïleghi Principality of the City-state of Nutheli.

The name Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi is derived from the Gnollish language, as Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi was founded by Grivguis vyim Glə˞nyi, who was culturaly Gnollish.

Climate

Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi has a yearly average temperature of 0°C (32°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a cold 10°C (50°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a freezing -9°C (16°F). Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi receives an average of 238 cm/y (93 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 2160 m (7086 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi was founded durring the late 10th century, by Grivguis vyim Glə˞nyi. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi was built using the conventions of Gnollish durring the late 10th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature masoned stone construction which prominantly features pointed arches, pointed ribbed vault cielings, flying buttress', and window tracery all of which share a simmilar gemoetetic patern halfway between organic and inorganic in design formaing a very distinct aesthetically integrated style. BUildings tend to reach for the havens, and more expencive homes are easily identified by their floor count as well as the addition of decorative features intigrated into the building's design such as statues, gargoyals, and embelished joinery.

Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi is buildings are arranged arround a network of broad paverstone 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 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 exceptionaly well made fortifications has suffered a visible ammount of structural damage, leaving them effectivly useless. One can't help but wonder why the has not yet effected repairs.

Before you’ve even set foot into the heart of Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi, you can smell it. The incense. It hangs about the town like a cloud. Monks, priests, and clerics are everywhere, all dedicated to the same god, all performing the same rituals to bless and anoint buildings, streets, people, animals, you name it they are or have blessed it. The same holy symbol is everywhere too. Its on buildings, on people, and even branded into livestock. This certainly loves its god. More than it loves wealth. The town is very clearly poor. Buildings are run down in ways that are not imeadiatly obvious. The people are a bit too thin. The market is very eager to sell to newcomers, but not so eager to buy from them. There’s also a general lack of the hum and buzz of healthy industry in Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi.

Civic Infrastructure

Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi.

Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi 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.

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

Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi 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

While Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi has a public leader, the real authority is hidden from outsiders. This ruler may draw their authority from rationales unacceptable to outsiders, they may have cowed the public authority into obedience, or they may have a mutually beneficial private arrangement with the official ruler.

Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi's mayor's house 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.

In Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi birds speak prophesy.

The Leshy, Gourd near Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi are known to be quite timid.

Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves performance art to channel Invocation energies of tier 2 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.

Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi Census Data: Year 2000

303 of Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 21 work in Agriculture
• 72 work as Craftsmen
• 21 work as Merchants
• 45 work as Service Workers
• 30 work as General Laborers
• 11 work as Skilled Laborers
• 41 work as Civil Servants
• 31 work in Cottage Industries
• 14 work as Artists
• 17 work in Produce Industries

656 of Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 61 (6%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi is known for its odd use of round-a-bouts, small ring roads used in place of intersections.

POI

History

The the a cloak of Augury, an a cloak imbued with potent amounts of Augury energies was created near Mäpt Jáxï-vyauyi by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History