Mif Böqo Med

Mif Böqo Med (/mif/ /ˈbo˞qo/ [casual] [lightning]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Chagheindyl Earldom of the Viceroyalty of Rosid.

The name Mif Böqo Med is derived from the Wood Elvish language, as Mif Böqo Med was founded by Zlëm Agondren, who was culturaly Wood Elven.

Climate

Mif Böqo Med has a yearly average temperature of 12°C (53°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 25°C (77°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a freezing 0°C (32°F). Mif Böqo Med receives an average of 150 cm/y (59 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Mif Böqo Med covers an area of nearly 536 km² (214 mi²), and an average elevation of 3410 m (11187 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Mif Böqo Med was founded durring the late 13th century in spring of the year 1195, by Zlëm Agondren. 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 Zlëm Agondren.

Mif Böqo Med was built using the conventions of Wood Elven durring the late 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Mif Böqo Med is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature plaster covered brickwork used to form structures with an emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts. Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches and aediculae can be found everywhere such that only size of building and yard can be used to measure the general prosparity of a given building's owners due to a general wealthy feeling the style gives off.

Mif Böqo Med is is constructed arround a semi-circular spacious cobblestone mainstreet, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to eachother at varrious points. The city sits behind an impressive looking clay brick wall. The wall is notable for querried stone blocks being used to renforce the clay bricks in the expected manner and locations. While the wall was built to the exact specifications of modern fortifications, one has to wonder why the money invested into creating such a well fortified wall wasnt spent on a less impressive looking wall crated from sturdier materials. Mif Böqo Med's walls would endure a brief bombardment, but only from light siege weapons. It seems more likly the city's walls were not designed with defence in mind but rather lending the town a certain air with visitors. Mif Böqo Med's boondoggle-of-a-fortified wall are suffering from significent damage, so much so that examples can be pointed to no matter which section one might have within their line of site, and most of which render sections inoperable at present.

Right off the bat Mif Böqo Med 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. This wealth has brought the city nothing but neurosis, if you can believe your eyes. Everyone acts as if you’re out to take a piece of them. Every door is locked and every window barred. Efforts are made to make you feel welcome, but only in the public areas of the city, particularly the market.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Mif Böqo Med has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Mif Böqo Med 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 Mif Böqo Med. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Mif Böqo Med's parks.

Mif Böqo Med has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Mif Böqo Med.

Mif Böqo Med 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.

Mif Böqo Med 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.

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

Mif Böqo Med has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Mif Böqo Med 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.

Mif Böqo Med 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.

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

Mif Böqo Med has an Millitary Academy which trains military officers and specilists.

Mif Böqo Med 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. Mif Böqo Med's grid is powered by a direct leyline tap.

Mif Böqo Med's old civil lighting system was converted to Galvanic Lamps recently, and expanded to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Mif Böqo Med has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Mif Böqo Med 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.

Mif Böqo Med 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 Mif Böqo Med's natural decorations nor waterways.

Mif Böqo Med 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.

Mif Böqo Med 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.

Mif Böqo Med 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.

Mif Böqo Med 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

Mif Böqo Med's town hall 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 Mif Böqo Med all of the cats speak in a dead language.

The Mercane near Mif Böqo Med are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Mif Böqo Med's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves creating small tokens to channel Charm energies of tier 3 via divine sermons.

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.

Mif Böqo Med Census Data: Year 2000

48272 of Mif Böqo Med's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 2673 work in Agriculture
• 10905 work as Craftsmen
• 3896 work as Merchants
• 7519 work as Service Workers
• 4881 work as General Laborers
• 1968 work as Skilled Laborers
• 6904 work as Civil Servants
• 4263 work in Cottage Industries
• 2682 work as Artists
• 2581 work in Produce Industries

73132 of Mif Böqo Med's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 5058 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Mif Böqo Med is uncommonly rich, not only for the gentry but for the common citizens as well. They may produce a valuable good, oversee precious resource extraction, have special economic favors from the ruler, or simply have inherited a vast body of infrastructure. Their neighbors likely view them with envy, and outside raiders and exploiters find them an ideal target.

The center of Mif Böqo Med's town square was built around an ancient standing stone.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century a local hero by the name of slew a monster which had been terrorizing the streets of Mif Böqo Med. The recitation of the hero's story remains a popular tavern and fair tale.

History