Ob Khìlno Birěkhka

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka (/ob/ /ˈxɨlno/ [famous] [millennium]) is a subtropical Town located in Lèljĭih Zone, If-70cqǐnrì District, within the Federation of Alveria.

The name Ob Khìlno Birěkhka is derived from the Constructi language, as Ob Khìlno Birěkhka was founded by Ochre Eurypterids Trêyëg̈, who was culturaly Constructi.

Climate

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka has a yearly average temperature of 12°C (53°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a cool 16°C (60°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 9°C (48°F). Ob Khìlno Birěkhka receives an average of 229 cm/y (90 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Ob Khìlno Birěkhka covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 1766 m (5793 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka was founded durring the late 13th century in fall of the year 1191, by Ochre Eurypterids Trêyëg̈. The establishment of Ob Khìlno Birěkhka suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Ob Khìlno Birěkhka which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka was built using the conventions of Constructi durring the late 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Ob Khìlno Birěkhka 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.

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka is is constructed arround a semi-circular broad cobblestone mainstreet, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to eachother at varrious points. The town is protected by a renforced stone fence which sits atop earthwork defences, for some of the best inexpencive defences a town of Ob Khìlno Birěkhka's size could have. Ob Khìlno Birěkhka's well-designed, yet cheep 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.

A look around Ob Khìlno Birěkhka seems to be home to a quite vibrant and boisterous community. Everywhere one looks they can see people going out their daily business with a smile and a spring in their step. Children play loudly in the streets, causing untold havoc as youth are want and allowed to do.

Civic Infrastructure

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Ob Khìlno Birěkhka.

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka 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.

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka 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.

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka 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.

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

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka 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 Town. Ob Khìlno Birěkhka's grid is powered by an arcane means.

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. In spite of the Galvanic Grid, these lights continue to use their old fule sources to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka 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

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka'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 Ob Khìlno Birěkhka every night at precisely midnight every structure in town is engulfed by sailors fire until the end of the witching hour.

The Forgotten One near Ob Khìlno Birěkhka are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves line dance to channel Transmutation energies of tier 2 via oratory performances.

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.

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka Census Data: Year 2000

394 of Ob Khìlno Birěkhka's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 25 work in Agriculture
• 83 work as Craftsmen
• 32 work as Merchants
• 67 work as Service Workers
• 40 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 58 work as Civil Servants
• 36 work in Cottage Industries
• 19 work as Artists
• 22 work in Produce Industries

831 of Ob Khìlno Birěkhka's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 37 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Ob Khìlno Birěkhka 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.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century, Ob Khìlno Birěkhka was attacked by soldiers from another nation, with orders to raid Ob Khìlno Birěkhka. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Ob Khìlno Birěkhka lost 177 people, 385 livestock, and 36 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 128, when members of Ob Khìlno Birěkhka's militia enacted an operation to extract assets from a ruin under siege by the enemy. The operation was complicated by one of the key objectives in the operation requiring sticking to a very strict and short time table. The conflict ended with pitched battle between both forces, which ended in a stalemate for Ob Khìlno Birěkhka's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Ob Khìlno Birěkhka's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

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