Osâ Guchyo Mudâ

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ (/ˈosɑ/ /ˈguco/ [mauve] [apartment]) is a temperate Large City located in Iyo Rûyû Kingdom, Tefnakht County, within the Warrenese Shogunate.

The name Osâ Guchyo Mudâ is derived from the Wood Elvish language, as Osâ Guchyo Mudâ was founded by Sheshesmèj, who was culturaly Warrenese.

Climate

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ has a yearly average temperature of 16°C (60°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 22°C (71°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 10°C (50°F). Osâ Guchyo Mudâ receives an average of 207 cm/y (81 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Osâ Guchyo Mudâ covers an area of nearly 263 km² (105 mi²), and an average elevation of 1198 m (3930 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ was founded durring the early 13th century in winter of the year 1243, by Sheshesmèj. The establishment of Osâ Guchyo Mudâ suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Osâ Guchyo Mudâ which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ was built using the conventions of Warrenese durring the early 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Osâ Guchyo Mudâ 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.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ is is constructed arround a series of restrictive gravel mainstreets which form concentric circles, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to each other at varrious points. The city rests behind a thin stone wall. The wall's design was likly directly copied from a castle's parmiter defences. It's simply that the arcatect made Osâ Guchyo Mudâ's wall substancialy thinner than a castle's walls. While the towers and gatehouses are adiquite, the obvious cost savings measure of making the walls drasticaly thinner reduces their ability to resist siege weapons greatly. The city's impressive-looking wall could fail at a critical moment in battle, and would likely not even resist a few bandits with improvised siege equipment. Osâ Guchyo Mudâ's budget oriented are in an unremarkable state. To some, this is the ideal sate for defences to be in. In need of absoutly nothing, and ready to serve the city as needed.

A look around Osâ Guchyo Mudâ gives you an uneasy feeling. Everything is just a little too worn down, a little too dirty, or both. No one makes eye contact. Kids play quietly, but happily. Occasionally a passerby glances at you out of the corner of their eye, staring jsut long enough for it to be uncomfortable. Beneath this surface, the people of Osâ Guchyo Mudâ can be overheard having academic discussions, as well as talking about scholarly subjects in general. It’s quite clear Osâ Guchyo Mudâ places a lot of value on education and being a learned individual.

Civic Infrastructure

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ possesses a city-wide Aethary Link which provides Aethary access anywhere within its metropolitan. This allows citizens who can afford the relevant devices access in their places of work, and rarely homes.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ 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 Osâ Guchyo Mudâ. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Osâ Guchyo Mudâ's parks.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Osâ Guchyo Mudâ.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ 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.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ 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.

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

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ 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.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ 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.

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

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ has an Scientific Academy which provides higher education in the natural sciences.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ 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. Osâ Guchyo Mudâ's grid is powered by an arcane means.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ 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.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. The library is open to the public, including the Aether Link.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ 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 Osâ Guchyo Mudâ's natural decorations nor waterways.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ 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.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ 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.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ 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.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ 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

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ is led by one or more incompetents. While they must have been very good at something to have acquired the position, they are fundamentally incapable of leading. Uncontrolled passions or lusts, commitment to a hopelessly impractical ideal, pigheaded obstinacy in the face of failure, a total lack of charisma or interpersonal skills, or profound laziness might all unfit them for their post.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ's garrison was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by towering round arches, massive stone and brickwork, small windows, thick walls, and a propensity for housing art and sculpture depicting mythological scenes. The building's general shape would be a clever and ascetic combination of geometric shapes, which would be blended together by joining elements. The style's decorative features were largely internal rather than external and incorporated semicircular arches for windows, doors, and arcades; barrel or groin vaults to support the roof of the nave; massive piers and walls, with few windows, to contain the outward thrust of the vaults; side aisles with galleries above them..

In Osâ Guchyo Mudâ all of the cats speak the local language with prefect diction.

The Hoar Spirit near Osâ Guchyo Mudâ are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves square dance to channel Chronomancy energies of tier 2 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.

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ Census Data: Year 2000

23699 of Osâ Guchyo Mudâ's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 1263 work in Agriculture
• 5373 work as Craftsmen
• 1851 work as Merchants
• 3751 work as Service Workers
• 2379 work as General Laborers
• 936 work as Skilled Laborers
• 3511 work as Civil Servants
• 2135 work in Cottage Industries
• 1294 work as Artists
• 1206 work in Produce Industries

36972 of Osâ Guchyo Mudâ's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1238 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Osâ Guchyo Mudâ has a substantial mill pond located a short distance from town.

POI

History

The the a bracelet of Mysticism, an a bracelet imbued with potent amounts of Mysticism energies was created near Osâ Guchyo Mudâ by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History