Sav Fre Hadfow

Sav Fre Hadfow (/sav/ /fre/ [middle] [microscope]) is a temperate Large City located in the Trëyön Moot of the Rosid.

The name Sav Fre Hadfow is derived from the Sylvin language, as Sav Fre Hadfow was founded by Vethakh, who was culturaly Wood Elf.

Climate

Sav Fre Hadfow has a yearly average temperature of 15°C (59°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 24°C (75°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 6°C (42°F). Sav Fre Hadfow receives an average of 115 cm/y (45 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the brutaly long winter months. Sav Fre Hadfow covers an area of nearly 72 km² (28 mi²), and an average elevation of 4736 m (15538 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Sav Fre Hadfow was founded durring the early 17th century in early fall of the year 1608, by Vethakh. The establishment of Sav Fre Hadfow was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Vethakh struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Sav Fre Hadfow as a prison colony.

Sav Fre Hadfow was built using the conventions of Wood Elf durring the early 17th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Sav Fre Hadfow is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature timber framed wooden shiethed or brick construction, which gives form to a very formalized, rational, expence effishent arcatectural style based on strictly symmetrical designs which universaly feature pitched roofs, shutters, and the occasional column or pilaster for a decorative touch.

Sav Fre Hadfow is buildings are arranged arround a network of spacious cobblestone 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 the absurdity that is a thick, timber braced, wall made of clay bricks. While visualy impressive and certainly an astetic, Sav Fre Hadfow'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. Sav Fre Hadfow's political statment focused walls are suffering from significent damage, so much so that examples can be pointed to no matter which section one might have within their line of site, and most of which render sections inoperable at present.

Sav Fre Hadfow has a very calm atmosphere. People can be seen relaxing, scocilizing, and going about all manner of business other than the daily grind. Men, women, children, all can be seen enjoying life in a laid-back way in the many parks which line Sav Fre Hadfow’s streets.

Civic Infrastructure

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

Sav Fre Hadfow has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Sav Fre Hadfow 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 Sav Fre Hadfow. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Sav Fre Hadfow's parks.

Sav Fre Hadfow has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Sav Fre Hadfow.

Sav Fre Hadfow 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.

Sav Fre Hadfow 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.

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

Sav Fre Hadfow has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Sav Fre Hadfow 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.

Sav Fre Hadfow 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.

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

Sav Fre Hadfow has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Sav Fre Hadfow 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. Sav Fre Hadfow's grid is powered by an arcane means.

Sav Fre Hadfow's old civil lighting system was converted to Galvanic Lamps recently, and expanded to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Sav Fre Hadfow has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Sav Fre Hadfow has a library, which keeps a large collection of books, scrolls, and archives all manner of physical items. The library is open to the public, including the Aether Link.

Sav Fre Hadfow 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 Sav Fre Hadfow's natural decorations nor waterways.

Sav Fre Hadfow 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.

Sav Fre Hadfow 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.

Sav Fre Hadfow 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.

Cultural Notes

Sav Fre Hadfow's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is admittedly strange and non-linear style rooted in defiance of symmetrical shapes. It championed the creation of buildings with a unique visual appearance. the structural norms of classic buildings and deforms or moves away from elementary architectural principles. By including non-linear designs processed into its buildings and favoring fragmentation, this style expressed a form of controlled chaos. Its buildings appear out-of-the-ordinary, draw the eye in immediately and sometimes create a feeling of strangeness. These distorted shapes and structure are not reserved to the building’s outer facade, they destabilize interior elements too, favoring minimalism and play on people’s perceptions by injecting a futuristic touch.

In Sav Fre Hadfow during thunderstorms, with each flash of lightning, everyone sees different monsters from the corner of their eyes.

The Petrifern near Sav Fre Hadfow are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Sav Fre Hadfow's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in winter and involves drinking to channel Conjuration energies of tier 2 via 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.

Sav Fre Hadfow Census Data: Year 2000

6422 of Sav Fre Hadfow's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 342 work in Agriculture
• 1460 work as Craftsmen
• 517 work as Merchants
• 937 work as Service Workers
• 676 work as General Laborers
• 261 work as Skilled Laborers
• 957 work as Civil Servants
• 581 work in Cottage Industries
• 347 work as Artists
• 344 work in Produce Industries

10107 of Sav Fre Hadfow's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 688 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Due to a magical anomaly, Sav Fre Hadfow is directly accessible from a nearby river, despite the lack of a physical connection between the town's pond and the river.

POI

History

Almost every community has some problem with bandits and highwaymen, but Sav Fre Hadfow is seriously plagued with raiders. One or more groups of persistent plunderers are hitting the community repeatedly, and they lack the necessary resources to fend them off or protect all their holdings.

The the a cloak of Mysticism, an a cloak imbued with potent amounts of Mysticism energies was created in Sav Fre Hadfow by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History