Nji-jerli Xluwuf

Nji-jerli Xluwuf (/nji/ /jeˈrli/ [good; hot (attractive); fine (okay); great (excellent)] [corpse]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Ádraptlērg Region of the Goblin Tribes.

The name Nji-jerli Xluwuf is derived from the Goblin language, as Nji-jerli Xluwuf was founded by Lysette, who was culturaly Gnoll.

Climate

Nji-jerli Xluwuf has a yearly average temperature of 9°C (48°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a cold 7°C (44°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 12°C (53°F). Nji-jerli Xluwuf receives an average of 285 cm/y (112 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Nji-jerli Xluwuf covers an area of nearly 151 km² (60 mi²), and an average elevation of 1984 m (6509 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Nji-jerli Xluwuf was founded durring the late 13th century in spring of the year 1253, by Lysette. 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 Lysette.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf was built using the conventions of Gnoll durring the late 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Nji-jerli Xluwuf 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.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf is buildings are arranged arrounded a highly ordered system of restrictive split-log ties streets which form triangular 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 resides behind a palisade wall complete with battlments, a moat, and timber gatehouses with drawbridges. The city's robustly designed timber walls 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 city.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf is a bustling hive of activity. Everyone moves at nothing short of a jog, each convocation is a mile a minute, and there’s dedicated lanes for riding through town in the center of each street. The locals all appear to be not merely occupied, but in a true hurry for everything from drinking a pint of ale to their daily work.

Civic Infrastructure

Nji-jerli Xluwuf possesses a Aethary Link for its accademic, government, and financial institutions. Public Aethary access is available through one or more of these intitutions.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf 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 Nji-jerli Xluwuf. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Nji-jerli Xluwuf's parks.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Nji-jerli Xluwuf.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf 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.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf 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.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf has a Guild of Nurses, which is tasked with caring for the elderly and infirm in accordance with local ordinances, religious values, and customs.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf 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.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf 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.

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

Nji-jerli Xluwuf has an Administrative Academy which trains individuals in the administrative arts.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf 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. Nji-jerli Xluwuf's grid is powered by a direct leyline tap.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf's old civil lighting system was converted to Galvanic Lamps recently, and expanded to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf 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.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf 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 Nji-jerli Xluwuf's natural decorations nor waterways.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf 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.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf 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.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf 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.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf 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

Nji-jerli Xluwuf's chapel was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used makes use of a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse and symmetrical central-plan, resulting in buildings with a square central mass and four arms of equal length. Decorative features included domed rooves, arches, soaring spaces, and sumptuous decoration: marble columns and inlay, mosaics on the vaults, inlaid-stone pavements, and sometimes gold coffered ceilings.

In Nji-jerli Xluwuf rain occurs in reverse with water pooling up from the earth then falling into the skies to from clouds, this unsettles every visitor that sees it.

The Skin Stitcher near Nji-jerli Xluwuf are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves reenactments to channel Summoning energies of tier 3 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.

Nji-jerli Xluwuf Census Data: Year 2000

13534 of Nji-jerli Xluwuf's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 750 work in Agriculture
• 3007 work as Craftsmen
• 1128 work as Merchants
• 1959 work as Service Workers
• 1400 work as General Laborers
• 563 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1998 work as Civil Servants
• 1240 work in Cottage Industries
• 749 work as Artists
• 740 work in Produce Industries

20287 of Nji-jerli Xluwuf's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 2158 (6%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Nji-jerli Xluwuf has access to some sort of functioning ancient infrastructure, whether it's an array of wall-mounted arcane energy projectors, running water, moving roadways, community-wide climate control, or some other inherited luxury. This infrastructure may be the result of a still-functional Working, or it could be the product of some venerable occult engine that's still operational, or it may be the fruit of the labors of some specially-designed organism or Blighted populace.

The roads leading into Nji-jerli Xluwuf possess a great number of switchbacks. While designed for defense, they mostly wind up pissing everyone trying to take goods to town right the hell off.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century, Nji-jerli Xluwuf 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 Nji-jerli Xluwuf lost 287 people, 278 livestock, and 26 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 74, when members of Nji-jerli Xluwuf's militia enacted an operation to train a specific solgiers group for an upcoming operation. The operation was complicated by an outbreak of plague which struck the ranks, killing many and laying low many more. The conflict ended with the defense of the strategic location against a siege, which ended in a stalemate for Nji-jerli Xluwuf's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Nji-jerli Xluwuf's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

History