Mêngí-la Bî

Mêngí-la Bî (/vɘˈjogi/ /la/ [sore] [point]) is a temperate Large Town located in the Jajëhifitë Zone of the Union of Engineers.

The name Mêngí-la Bî is derived from the Iron Elvish language, as Mêngí-la Bî was founded by Runo Shënkdsh, who was culturaly Iron Elven.

Climate

Mêngí-la Bî has a yearly average temperature of 24°C (75°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 26°C (78°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 23°C (73°F). Mêngí-la Bî receives an average of 285 cm/y (112 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Mêngí-la Bî covers an area of nearly 6 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 2644 m (8674 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Mêngí-la Bî was founded durring the late 14th century in spring of the year 1289, by Runo Shënkdsh. The establishment of Mêngí-la Bî suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Mêngí-la Bî which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Mêngí-la Bî was built using the conventions of Iron Elven durring the late 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Mêngí-la 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.

Mêngí-la Bî is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of crampt carved bedrock 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 town emploies a series of defencive earthworks, spikes, and fences to provide some protection against wild beasts and smaller groups of intelegent foes. The town's minimaly adiquite have recently undergone extensive repairs and renovations, such that the repairwork is imeadiently apparent and can be spotted due to the diffring ages of materials. One can't help but wonder what brought the need for those repairs to the town.

A quick look in any direction shows Mêngí-la Bî is filled with vices. There are many taverns, brothels are advertising their services on the streets, cardsharks are plying their illicit trade within public squairs, and every shop has at least three signs advertising various sales on goods. That alone wouldn’t be too noticeable, if it wasn’t just so omnipresent and overwhelmingly how the people of this town live. Or if the general public wasn’t so enthusiastically, openly, and merrily participating in these activities.

Civic Infrastructure

Mêngí-la Bî 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 Mêngí-la Bî. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Mêngí-la Bî's parks.

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

Mêngí-la 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.

Mêngí-la 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.

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

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

Mêngí-la Bî 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 Mêngí-la Bî's natural decorations nor waterways.

Mêngí-la 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.

Mêngí-la Bî 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.

Cultural Notes

Mêngí-la Bî'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 Mêngí-la Bî the water is caffeinated.

The Kamadan near Mêngí-la Bî are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Mêngí-la Bî's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves performance art to channel Necromancy energies of tier 2 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.

Mêngí-la Bî Census Data: Year 2000

509 of Mêngí-la Bî's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 30 work in Agriculture
• 112 work as Craftsmen
• 44 work as Merchants
• 85 work as Service Workers
• 52 work as General Laborers
• 19 work as Skilled Laborers
• 71 work as Civil Servants
• 46 work in Cottage Industries
• 22 work as Artists
• 28 work in Produce Industries

1003 of Mêngí-la Bî's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 79 (5%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Mêngí-la Bî is reliant on an industry or product that has toxic or negative side-effects as part of its production. The good is extremely valuable, or the community is extremely desperate, and the side effects are endured as a necessary evil. It may be that their neighbors or lord are forcing them to produce the good so that they aren’t the ones suffering the cost.

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History

The the a linnin gambeson of Summoning, an a linnin gambeson imbued with potent amounts of Summoning energies was created in Mëng-qëko Bî by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History