Mûme Vi Mîze

Mûme Vi Mîze (/ˈmequ̽/ /vi/ [mere] [gas lamp]) is a subtropical Small Town located in Fëldnōdntǟd Parish, Chyûyu̽ Lu̹sû Empire, within the Warrenese Shogunate.

The name Mûme Vi Mîze is derived from the Wareneese language, as Mûme Vi Mîze was founded by Shêyêyë Trêyënmë, who was culturaly Wareneese.

Climate

Mûme Vi Mîze has a yearly average temperature of 9°C (48°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 24°C (75°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a freezing -5°C (23°F). Mûme Vi Mîze receives an average of 292 cm/y (114 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Mûme Vi Mîze covers an area of nearly 3 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 6668 m (-21073 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Mûme Vi Mîze was founded durring the late 14th century in fall of the year 1270, by Shêyêyë Trêyënmë. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Mûme Vi Mîze was built using the conventions of Wareneese durring the late 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Mûme Vi Mîze 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.

Mûme Vi Mîze is buildings are arranged arround a single restrictive flagstone mainstreet with many smaller streets branching off of it which gives the town a over all rectangular shape, albit one warped and twisted by the nature of the curves of the main road. The town sits behind a stone-renforced palisade wall, with stone gatehouses and timber drawbridges for their trench. The town's would-be-castle fortifications are visibly old, but also obviously maintained semi-regularly. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with ocasional mantance of the towns defences.

Mûme Vi Mîze has a very calm atmosphere. People can be seen relaxing, scocilizing, and going about all manner of business other than the daily grind. Men, women, children, all can be seen enjoying life in a laid-back way in the many parks which line Mûme Vi Mîze’s streets.

Civic Infrastructure

Mûme Vi Mîze has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Mûme Vi Mîze.

Mûme Vi Mîze 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.

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

Mûme Vi Mîze 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.

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

Mûme Vi Mîze has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Mûme Vi Mîze 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.

Mûme Vi Mîze 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

The law within Mûme Vi Mîze is highly corrupt, or does not apply to certain favored groups or castes. Strangers might be fleeced by local lawmen, evildoers can be absolved by a payment, and powerful gentry do as they please.

Mûme Vi Mîze's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is admittedly strange and non-linear style rooted in defiance of symmetrical shapes. It championed the creation of buildings with a unique visual appearance. the structural norms of classic buildings and deforms or moves away from elementary architectural principles. By including non-linear designs processed into its buildings and favoring fragmentation, this style expressed a form of controlled chaos. Its buildings appear out-of-the-ordinary, draw the eye in immediately and sometimes create a feeling of strangeness. These distorted shapes and structure are not reserved to the building’s outer facade, they destabilize interior elements too, favoring minimalism and play on people’s perceptions by injecting a futuristic touch.

Due to the actions of local Kami, autumn is recurring in Mûme Vi Mîze.

The Festrog near Mûme Vi Mîze are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Mûme Vi Mîze's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves consuming a local narcotic to channel Illusion energies of tier 2 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.

Mûme Vi Mîze Census Data: Year 2000

267 of Mûme Vi Mîze's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 20 work in Agriculture
• 56 work as Craftsmen
• 21 work as Merchants
• 43 work as Service Workers
• 26 work as General Laborers
• 7 work as Skilled Laborers
• 41 work as Civil Servants
• 25 work in Cottage Industries
• 13 work as Artists
• 15 work in Produce Industries

653 of Mûme Vi Mîze's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 18 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

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History

The the a coif of Charm, an a coif imbued with great amounts of Charm energies was created near Mûme Vi Mîze by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History