Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu

Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu (/lə̝s/ /honˈnju/ [sorry; sad] [rope; cord]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Cåläruf Provence of the Hobben.

The name Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu is derived from the Sylvin language, as Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu was founded by Ůtsa, who was culturaly Undermountain.

Climate

Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu has a yearly average temperature of 31°C (87°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a blistering 36°C (96°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a warm 26°C (78°F). Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu receives an average of 66 cm/y (25 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu covers an area of nearly 152 km² (60 mi²), and an average elevation of 17052 m (12995 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu was founded durring the late 14th century in spring of the year 1271, by Ůtsa. The establishment of Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu's construction back out of the project. Ůtsa pushed on reguardles, and Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu was built using the conventions of Undermountain durring the late 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature delicute timber framework hidden behind layer upon layer of finly ground plaster bleached to an almost glossy white sheen, with green clay tiled roofs and decorative brass-leafed trim. Even the smallest, poorest looking structures appear to be expencive thanks to the extreem elegence of the organic shapes and paterns going into their lofty, spire-y, vagly gothic designs. The more well off folks live in identicle homes, save for even shiner trim and a more whimsical appearance to their structures flowing forms.

Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu is buildings are arranged arround a network of broad gravel streets which form a diamond shaped grid, where each diamond verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller diamond has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. 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 Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu'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. The city's budget oriented are visibly old, but also obviously maintained semi-regularly. Its likly the local malishia or garrison are tasked with ocasional mantance of the citys defences.

Before you’ve even set foot into the heart of Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu, you can smell it. The incense. It hangs about the town like a cloud. Monks, priests, and clerics are everywhere, all dedicated to the same divine, all performing the same rituals to bless and anoint buildings, streets, people, animals, you name it they are or have blessed it. The same holy symbol is everywhere too. Its on buildings, on people, and even branded into livestock. This certainly loves its divine. Asside form the revrent worship, you can see the citizens are preparing for something, and that something isn’t good. Weapons are worn openly. Defensive structures have been recently constructed to guard less used areas of the city. Merchants seem very eager to sell their wares at discount prices. Something is coming.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

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

Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu 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 Yähe Honnyu's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu's old civil lighting system was converted to Galvanic Lamps recently, and expanded to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

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

Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu 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 Yähe Honnyu 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 Yähe Honnyu's natural decorations nor waterways.

Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu 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 Yähe Honnyu 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 Yähe Honnyu 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 Yähe Honnyu 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

The locals are convinced that there is some terrible threat against them working from within their society. It may be a matter of dark sorcerers, foreign spies, traitorous neighbors, shape shifting monsters, or some other hidden evil. This evil may be a recent fear, or it may be an inherited peril they’ve always had to guard against. The danger itself may or may not exist, or if it exists it may not justify the steps being taken.

Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known for its fluid and florid elaborate style, comprising ornate, asymmetric designs and pastel shades. It is often considered to be a playful, light style, which made exuberant use of curves and emphasized subtle asymmetry in the general shape of its structures. Walls, ceilings and moldings are decorated with numerous interlacing of curves and counter-curves based on the shapes of ‘C’ and ‘S’, along with shell forms and other naturalistic shapes.

In Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu the water is caffeinated.

The Hungry Flesh near Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu are known to be quite timid.

Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves creating small tokens to channel Chronomancy 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.

Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu Census Data: Year 2000

13522 of Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 734 work in Agriculture
• 3025 work as Craftsmen
• 1094 work as Merchants
• 2114 work as Service Workers
• 1386 work as General Laborers
• 548 work as Skilled Laborers
• 1931 work as Civil Servants
• 1241 work in Cottage Industries
• 720 work as Artists
• 729 work in Produce Industries

19940 of Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 2518 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu is known for its odd use of round-a-bouts, small ring roads used in place of intersections.

POI

History

The the a symble of Abjuration, an a symble imbued with great amounts of Abjuration energies was created in Qÿhtvehb Yähe Honnyu by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century.

History