Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu (/ald/ /lejˈvju/ [awake] [university]) is a subtropical Large City located in Lÿgrach åhehttruld Hold, Yuttul̄ Kingdom, within the Undermountain.

The name Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu is derived from the Sylvin language, as Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu was founded by Giant Ants, who was culturaly Undermountain.

Climate

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu has a yearly average temperature of 23°C (73°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 28°C (82°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 19°C (66°F). Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu receives an average of 229 cm/y (90 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu covers an area of nearly 197 km² (78 mi²), and an average elevation of 3128 m (10262 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu was founded durring the early 17th century in late spring of the year 1611, by Giant Ants. The establishment of Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu suffered from many setbacks, delays, and obsticles, most notably a group of Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu which required millitary assistance exterminate before the community could finish being built.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu was built using the conventions of Undermountain durring the early 17th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature timber and earth construction, with most buildigns first floors resembling mounds of earth, with subsequent floors appearing as elaborate log cabins, with each building forming a tiered pyramid of sorts fromed from the stack of rectangular, peek roofed cabins. Most wooden bracing, support, and trim is carved with decorative knotwork, and the larger structures even feature painted trim which emphasises the knotwork.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu is is constructed arround a series of crampt flagstone mainstreets which form overlapping circles, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to eachother at varrious points. The city rests behind the absurdity that is a thick, timber braced, wall made of clay bricks. While visualy impressive and certainly an astetic, Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu's wall provides no actual defence against siege equipment due to the choice of its cosntruction materials. Even nonexperts can tell the town is trying to impress rather than defend with its walls, towers, and gatehouses. Though admittedly, they do look nice... To primitive tribals who have never seen fortifications before. Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu's political statment focused walls 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 Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu gives the unmistakable impression the town is one of the strictest places imaginable. Everyone’s actions are clearly directed by laws they keep in heart and mind at all times. Orderly byond order is a phrase which Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu brings to mind.

Civic Infrastructure

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu possesses a Aethary Link for its accademic, government, and financial institutions. Public Aethary access is available through one or more of these intitutions.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu 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 Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu's parks.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu 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.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu 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.

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

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu 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.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu 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.

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

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu 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. Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu 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.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu 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.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu 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 Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu's natural decorations nor waterways.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu 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.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu 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.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu 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.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu 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.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known primarily for its use of abstraction and simplicity. Clean lines, right angles, and primary colors characterized this aesthetic and art movement expressed via architecture and paintings. Its design ethos allows only primary colors and non-colors, only squares and rectangles, only straight and horizontal or vertical lines. Vertical and horizontal lines are positioned in layers or planes that do not intersect, thereby allowing each element to exist independently and unobstructed by other elements. These seemingly impossible principals for an architectural style coalesces into structures which most experts find hard to put into words. It is not that their geometry is impossible, but rather the style's attempt at producing works only describable visually was most successful..

Due to the actions of local Kami, autumn is short in Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu.

The Ettercap near Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves performance art to channel Transmutation energies of tier 3 via throat singing.

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.

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu Census Data: Year 2000

17584 of Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 962 work in Agriculture
• 3920 work as Craftsmen
• 1480 work as Merchants
• 2712 work as Service Workers
• 1848 work as General Laborers
• 721 work as Skilled Laborers
• 2517 work as Civil Servants
• 1534 work in Cottage Industries
• 948 work as Artists
• 942 work in Produce Industries

27380 of Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1873 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu has a substantial mill pond located a short distance from town.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century the Kami granted the town a great harvest. One of Qÿhtvehb Ald Leyvyu's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History