Píêho-ësokê Bî

Píêho-ësokê Bî (/ˈp˔ɘho/ /ëˈsokɘ/ [volatile] [bait]) is a temperate Town located in the Ko-13nhun Zone of the Union of Engineers.

The name Píêho-ësokê Bî is derived from the Iron Elvish language, as Píêho-ësokê Bî was founded by Sé̄shī Nīń̄ 'Pumpkin Beamin' Cúónḱ Dä̂ Gärmboī Shonke, who was culturaly Iron Elven.

Climate

Píêho-ësokê Bî has a yearly average temperature of 26°C (78°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a hot 33°C (91°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 19°C (66°F). Píêho-ësokê Bî receives an average of 225 cm/y (88 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Píêho-ësokê Bî covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 1448 m (4750 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Píêho-ësokê Bî was founded durring the early 12th century in fall of the year 1130, by Sé̄shī Nīń̄ 'Pumpkin Beamin' Cúónḱ Dä̂ Gärmboī Shonke. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Píêho-ësokê Bî was built using the conventions of Iron Elven durring the early 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Píêho-ësokê Bî is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature masoned stone construction which prominantly features pointed arches, pointed ribbed vault cielings, flying buttress', and window tracery all of which share a simmilar gemoetetic patern halfway between organic and inorganic in design formaing a very distinct aesthetically integrated style. BUildings tend to reach for the havens, and more expencive homes are easily identified by their floor count as well as the addition of decorative features intigrated into the building's design such as statues, gargoyals, and embelished joinery.

Píêho-ësokê Bî is buildings are arranged arrounded a highly ordered system of crampt flagstone 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 town has a defencive wall made from querried stone. The wall is equipped with a full set of battlments but the nature of its construction methodology leaves it somewhat vulnerable to siege equipment. That said, the town is well defended against anything short of an army. The town's cost-cutting-focused defences 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.

A look around Píêho-ësokê Bî is like looking into a university’s plaza on the day before an exam. People rush about to-and-fro. Discarded scrolls and quills are dotted around town. In spite of many locals discussing academic topics, there’s little sign of any organized groups for any of that talk. Infact, the town seems disordered in general with everything scattered helter skelter about.

Civic Infrastructure

Píêho-ësokê Bî has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Píêho-ësokê Bî.

Píêho-ësokê Bî 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.

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

Píêho-ësokê Bî 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.

Píêho-ësokê Bî 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.

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

Píêho-ësokê Bî has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Píêho-ësokê Bî has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Píêho-ësokê Bî 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

Píêho-ësokê Bî's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is best known for the combined use of arcuated and trabeated construction, employing arches and constructed with post and lintel. The arch served as the style's chief structural element, with flanking columns serving as buttresses or decorations. While the general shape of their structures could be generously described as simplistic, the use of these arches and columns created a most distinct ascetic which is easily distinguishable on sight to armatures and experts alike.

In Píêho-ësokê Bî yeast remains dormant.

The Bat Swarm, Underworld near Píêho-ësokê Bî are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Píêho-ësokê Bî's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves gestures to channel Illusion 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.

Píêho-ësokê Bî Census Data: Year 2000

406 of Píêho-ësokê Bî's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 27 work in Agriculture
• 90 work as Craftsmen
• 30 work as Merchants
• 68 work as Service Workers
• 38 work as General Laborers
• 13 work as Skilled Laborers
• 61 work as Civil Servants
• 37 work in Cottage Industries
• 20 work as Artists
• 22 work in Produce Industries

871 of Píêho-ësokê Bî's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 39 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Píêho-ësokê Bî 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.

Píêho-ësokê Bî's is something of a geological and arcane anomaly, as neither physical nor magical law entirely explains its formation.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century was ravaged by a deadly sickness. was the epicenter of the disaster, but Píêho-ësokê Bî suffered the most. Píêho-ësokê Bî lost 270 people, 336 livestock, and 36 buildings in the disaster.. The disaster is spoken of in hushed whispers as the Wrath of Heartache.

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