Rèfê-èyèqa Bî

Rèfê-èyèqa Bî (/ˈrèfɘ/ /èˈjèqa/ [harmony] [desert]) is a subtropical Town located in the Yêmëcê Zone of the Union of Engineers.

The name Rèfê-èyèqa Bî is derived from the Iron Elvish language, as Rèfê-èyèqa Bî was founded by Zèsi Sheg̈, who was culturaly Iron Elven.

Climate

Rèfê-èyèqa Bî has a yearly average temperature of 27°C (80°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a hot 31°C (87°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 23°C (73°F). Rèfê-èyèqa Bî receives an average of 235 cm/y (92 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Rèfê-èyèqa Bî covers an area of nearly 5 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 1844 m (6049 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Rèfê-èyèqa Bî was founded durring the early 12th century in summer of the year 1119, by Zèsi Sheg̈. The establishment of Rèfê-èyèqa Bî was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Zèsi Sheg̈ struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Rèfê-èyèqa Bî as a prison colony.

Rèfê-èyèqa Bî was built using the conventions of Iron Elven durring the early 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Rèfê-èyèqa 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.

Rèfê-èyèqa Bî is buildings are speckled and packed arround spacious paverstone streets with seemingly no patern to them. It appears as if the town's residents simply built streets as they pleased and squeazed buildings in wherever and howeave rpossible, creating an organic, frustrating to navigate, maze of a town. The town sits behind a stone-renforced palisade wall, with stone gatehouses and timber drawbridges for their trench. Unfortuantly, these would-be-castle fortifications are in extreem disrepair, so much so that one cannot tell if they are decaying from a lack of mantance or damage incured.

A quick look in any direction shows Rèfê-èyèqa Bî is filled with vices. There are many taverns, brothels are advertising their services on the streets, cardsharks are plying their illicit trade within public squairs, and every shop has at least three signs advertising various sales on goods. That alone wouldn’t be too noticeable, if it wasn’t just so omnipresent and overwhelmingly how the people of this town live.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Rèfê-èyèqa 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.

Rèfê-èyèqa 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.

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

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

Rèfê-èyèqa 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

Rèfê-èyèqa Bî'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..

In Rèfê-èyèqa Bî hail is always enormous, yet harmlessly plinks off people, creatures, and structures.

The Leshy, Fungus near Rèfê-èyèqa Bî are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Rèfê-èyèqa Bî's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves long periods of drunkenness to channel Necromancy energies of tier 2 via chanting.

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.

Rèfê-èyèqa Bî Census Data: Year 2000

369 of Rèfê-èyèqa Bî's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 23 work in Agriculture
• 81 work as Craftsmen
• 27 work as Merchants
• 61 work as Service Workers
• 36 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 52 work as Civil Servants
• 39 work in Cottage Industries
• 18 work as Artists
• 20 work in Produce Industries

817 of Rèfê-èyèqa Bî's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 36 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Rèfê-èyèqa Bî is known for its unusual rock formations.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century the Kami spared the town from an attack. One of Rèfê-èyèqa Bî's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History