Qabíí-êla Ye

Qabíí-êla Ye (/ˈëno/ /ˈɘla/ [intense] [grade; rank (position)]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Hansa Canton of the Union of Engineers.

The name Qabíí-êla Ye is derived from the Sylvin language, as Qabíí-êla Ye was founded by Lobordes, who was culturaly Iron Elvish.

Climate

Qabíí-êla Ye has a yearly average temperature of 18°C (64°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 25°C (77°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 11°C (51°F). Qabíí-êla Ye receives an average of 215 cm/y (84 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Qabíí-êla Ye covers an area of nearly 275 km² (110 mi²), and an average elevation of 1172 m (3845 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Qabíí-êla Ye was founded durring the early 13th century in spring of the year 1232, by Lobordes. The establishment of Qabíí-êla Ye was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Qabíí-êla Ye's construction back out of the project. Lobordes pushed on reguardles, and Qabíí-êla Ye was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

Qabíí-êla Ye was built using the conventions of Iron Elvish durring the early 13th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Qabíí-êla Ye is no diffrent. The city'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.

Qabíí-êla Ye is was constructed arround several crampt cobblestone mainstreets which cross one another at certain axies, with smaller streets branching off of them to premit acess to the many buildings deeper into the road network. The overall fashion is remenessent of a circulatory system, or other organic construct, and is quite effishent in its design. The city is defended by arcane means. It's hard to spot at first, but there's a tell tell shimmer in the air arround Qabíí-êla Ye, and you can spot the ocasional warding glyph carved into a rock or tree all arround town. These mystical defences are ancient, unknowable, and unassailable by current means... Assuming everything is in working order. Otherwise, the wards are little more than a deathtrap. The city's Relic of the World That Was are visibly old, but also obviously well maintained. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with routine mantance of the city's defences.

Right off the bat Qabíí-êla Ye hits you in the face with its success. Everyone, even the peasants, are dressed in well made clothing. Every tool and implement you can see is finely made, and people will boast to you as obvious strangers of the wonders which can be found in their markets. More interestingly is a total lack of beggars, and plenty of new buildings are going up even as you speak. Somehow this city has come into quite a lot of wealth, and recently from the looks of things. Precisely how it has gained its wealth is a mystery. Qabíí-êla Ye is, in a word, disorder. People seem to be allowed to do as they please with little harmoney to anything. It feels less like a city, and more like a spot people just happened to place their homes. Yet there are small elements here and there which show the underlying structure of the community. It’s just so complex, organic, and flowing one can only understand what is a piece of the puzzle, but not what its neighbors are.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Qabíí-êla Ye has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Qabíí-êla Ye 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 Qabíí-êla Ye. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Qabíí-êla Ye's parks.

Qabíí-êla Ye has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Qabíí-êla Ye.

Qabíí-êla Ye 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.

Qabíí-êla Ye 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.

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

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

Qabíí-êla Ye 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.

Qabíí-êla Ye 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.

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

Qabíí-êla Ye has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Qabíí-êla Ye 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. Qabíí-êla Ye's grid is powered by a boiler and turbine based power plant.

Qabíí-êla Ye 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.

Qabíí-êla Ye has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Qabíí-êla Ye 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.

Qabíí-êla Ye 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 Qabíí-êla Ye's natural decorations nor waterways.

Qabíí-êla Ye 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.

Qabíí-êla Ye 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.

Qabíí-êla Ye 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.

Qabíí-êla Ye 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

A substantial minority of the locals are descended from foreigners alien to their local neighbors. They may have been religious exiles, economic migrants, indigenous locals surrounded by the existing polity, or a foreign settlement conquered within the relatively recent past. The locals may not be enthusiastic about being ruled by others not of their kind, and their neighbors may look askance at the way foreign customs or even laws may be maintained.

Qabíí-êla Ye's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known for its buildings being predominantly formed through the combination of basic geometric shapes. However, it shown in the detailing given to the structures such as its characteristic tall columns, intricate detail, symmetry, harmony, and balance in their designs to an astonishing degree of precision. Decorative elements for the buildings tended to be built into the structure itself, making great use of fluting, frescoes, inlays, and embossing.

Due to the actions of local Kami, autumn is short in Qabíí-êla Ye.

The Urdefhan near Qabíí-êla Ye are known to be quite timid.

Qabíí-êla Ye's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves bloodletting to channel Elven High Magic energies of tier 1 via proclamations.

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.

Qabíí-êla Ye Census Data: Year 2000

25005 of Qabíí-êla Ye's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 1430 work in Agriculture
• 5444 work as Craftsmen
• 2032 work as Merchants
• 3757 work as Service Workers
• 2561 work as General Laborers
• 1031 work as Skilled Laborers
• 3797 work as Civil Servants
• 2261 work in Cottage Industries
• 1317 work as Artists
• 1375 work in Produce Industries

37754 of Qabíí-êla Ye's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1941 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Qabíí-êla Ye is known for its unusual rock formations.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century a local hero by the name of killed a tyrannical who had controlled Qabíí-êla Ye for years. A small order of knights was founded in 's honor, and bears his name to this day.

History