Va-dîbè Bî

Va-dîbè Bî (/va/ /ˈdɪbè/ [mustard] [zombie]) is a subtropical Large Town located in the Têqayëg̈ê Zone of the Union of Engineers.

The name Va-dîbè Bî is derived from the Iron Elvish language, as Va-dîbè Bî was founded by Shîj Shêbrêye, who was culturaly Iron Elven.

Climate

Va-dîbè Bî has a yearly average temperature of 25°C (77°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 28°C (82°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 22°C (71°F). Va-dîbè Bî receives an average of 216 cm/y (85 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Va-dîbè Bî covers an area of nearly 6 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 5338 m (17513 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Va-dîbè Bî was founded durring the late 9th century, by Shîj Shêbrêye. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Va-dîbè Bî was built using the conventions of Iron Elven durring the late 9th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Va-dîbè Bî is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature plaster covered brickwork used to form structures with an emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts. Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches and aediculae can be found everywhere such that only size of building and yard can be used to measure the general prosparity of a given building's owners due to a general wealthy feeling the style gives off.

Va-dîbè Bî is is constructed arround a semi-circular premissive baked earthen mainstreet, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to eachother at varrious points. The town 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 Va-dîbè Bî'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 town'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. Unfortuantly, these budget oriented are in extreem disrepair, so much so that one cannot tell if they are decaying from a lack of mantance or damage incured.

A look around Va-dîbè Bî seems to be home to a quite vibrant and boisterous community. Everywhere one looks they can see people going out their daily business with a smile and a spring in their step. Children play loudly in the streets, causing untold havoc as youth are want and allowed to do. On second glance, that chaos continues into adulthood. People seem to be allowed to do as they please with little harmoney to anything. It feels less like a town, 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

Va-dîbè Bî 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 Va-dîbè Bî. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Va-dîbè Bî's parks.

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

Va-dîbè 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.

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

Va-dîbè 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.

Va-dîbè Bî 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.

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

Va-dîbè Bî 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 Va-dîbè Bî's natural decorations nor waterways.

Va-dîbè Bî 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.

Va-dîbè 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.

Va-dîbè Bî 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

Va-dîbè Bî's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by dynamic designs and complex architectural plan forms; intended to heighten feelings of motion and sensuality, and frequently based on the oval. It made extensive and extreme use of: Grandeur, Contrast, Curves and twists, Rich surface treatments, Gilded statuary, Bright colors, Vividly painted ceilings, Fragmented or deliberately incomplete elements, Large-scale frescoes, Dramatic central projections on an external facade, the use of plaster, stucco, or marble finishing, Illusory effects such as trompe l’oeil, and pear-shaped domes. While beloved by the nobility, the common folk tended to despise the style due to the massive consumption of resources required for even a small building constructed in this style.

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

The Slithering Pit near Va-dîbè Bî are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Va-dîbè Bî's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves gestures to channel Augury energies of tier 3 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.

Va-dîbè Bî Census Data: Year 2000

509 of Va-dîbè Bî's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 33 work in Agriculture
• 115 work as Craftsmen
• 39 work as Merchants
• 81 work as Service Workers
• 51 work as General Laborers
• 19 work as Skilled Laborers
• 75 work as Civil Servants
• 45 work in Cottage Industries
• 24 work as Artists
• 27 work in Produce Industries

1000 of Va-dîbè Bî's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 79 (5%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Va-dîbè Bî is known for its well built pedestrian paths, which include foot bridges to cross the main street at several high-traffic areas.

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History

Almost every community has some problem with bandits and highwaymen, but Va-dîbè Bî 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 warhammer of Abjuration, an a warhammer imbued with potent amounts of Abjuration energies was created near Vä Obu Ckez by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

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