City: Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf
Example Gnoll architecture.
StateUndermountain
ProvenceTrïpghe Kingdom
Sub ProvenceGhēkáluplä Hold
RegionBārvaq Forest
Founded1281
Community LeaderLord Ghigrehl
Area27 km2 (10 mi2)
Average Yearly Temp15°C (59°F)
Average Elevation2390 m (7841 ft)
Average Yearly Precipitation236 cm/y (92 in/y)
Population6430
Population Density238 people per km2 (643 people per mi2)
Town AuraElven High Magic
Naming
Native nameVágenu-mingsor Xluwuf
Pronunciation/zrak/ /miŋˈsor/
Direct Translation[wrong] [passenger]
Translation[Not Yet Translated]

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf (/zrak/ /miŋˈsor/ [wrong] [passenger]) is a subtropical City located in Ghēkáluplä Hold, Trïpghe Kingdom, within the Undermountain.

The name Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf is derived from the Sylvin language, as Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf was founded by Trëg̈mtco, who was culturaly Gnoll.

Climate

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf has a yearly average temperature of 15°C (59°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 27°C (80°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 3°C (37°F). Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf receives an average of 236 cm/y (92 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf covers an area of nearly 27 km2 (10 mi2), and an average elevation of 2390 m (7841 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf was founded durring the late 14th century in fall of the year 1281, by Trëg̈mtco. The establishment of Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Trëg̈mtco electing to pay people to resettle in Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf.

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf was built using the conventions of Gnoll durring the late 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf 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.

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf is buildings are arranged arrounded a highly ordered system of crampt cobblestone streets which form triangular paterns, allowing the incides of the octagons to be common grounds for the buildings on the edges, be it for parkland, yardspace, plazas, or markets. The city is protected by a renforced stone fence which sits atop earthwork defences, for some of the best inexpencive defences a city of Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf's size could have. Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf's well-designed, yet cheep 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 Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf 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 Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf brings to mind.

Civic Infrastructure

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf 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 Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf's parks.

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf.

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf 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.

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf 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.

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

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf 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.

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf 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.

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

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf 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 City. Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf's grid is powered by mana accumulators.

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf's old civil lighting system was converted to Galvanic Lamps recently, and expanded to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf 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 Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf's natural decorations nor waterways.

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf 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.

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf 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.

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf 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

The law within Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf is highly corrupt, or does not apply to certain favored groups or castes. Strangers might be fleeced by local lawmen, evildoers can be absolved by a payment, and powerful gentry do as they please.

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is which made use of the classical orders and mathematically precise ratios of height and width combined with a desire for symmetry, proportion, and harmony. It used columns, pediments, arches and domes are imaginatively in buildings of all types. Decorative features were seen as largely unnecessary as the sheer beauty of the structure itself was often close to art. However, many buildings with large ceiling spaces had their ceilings decorated with elaborate paintings, simply because the large flat spaces could feel wasted.

In Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf all of the cats speak in a dead language.

The Raven, Giant near Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves embarking on a group pilgrimage to channel Mysticism 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.

Agriculture

  • Dairy Farmers: 12
  • Farmers: 16
  • Farm Laborer: 32
  • Hunters: 22
  • Milk Maids: 16
  • Ranchers: 8
  • Ranch Hands: 18
  • Shepherds: 18
    • Farmland: 26105 m2
    • Cattle and Similar Creatures: 1607
    • Poultry: 19290
    • Swine: 1286
    • Sheep: 64
    • Goats: 12
    • Horses, Mounts, and Beasts of Burden: 643

Craftsmen

  • Arms and Toolmakers: 14
  • Blacksmiths: 14
  • Bookbinders: 8
  • Buckle-makers: 8
  • Cabinetmakers: 14
  • Candlemakers: 24
  • Carpenters: 19
  • Clothmakers: 17
  • Coach and Harness Makers: 6
  • Coopers: 17
  • Copper, Brass, Tin, Zinc, and Lead Workers: 9
  • Copyists: 6
  • Cutlers: 5
  • Fabricworkers: 16
  • Farrier: 51
  • Furriers: 4
  • Glassworkers: 22
  • Gunsmiths: 12
  • Harness-Makers: 6
  • Hatters: 12
  • Hosiery Workers: 4
  • Jewelers: 7
  • Leatherwrights: 16
  • Locksmiths: 6
  • Matchstick makers: 9
  • Musical Instrument Makers: 9
  • Painters, Structures and Fixtures: 7
  • Paper Workers: 8
  • Plasterers: 8
  • Pursemakers: 10
  • Roofers: 6
  • Ropemakers: 6
  • Rugmakers: 6
  • Saddlers: 11
  • Scabbardmakers: 13
  • Scalemakers: 6
  • Scientific, Surgical, and Optical Instrument Makers: 4
  • Sculptors, Structures and Fixtures: 6
  • Shoemakers: 6
  • Soap and Tallow Workers: 23
  • Tailors: 32
  • Tanners: 7
  • Upholsterers: 9
  • Watchmakers: 8
  • Weavers: 17
  • Whitesmiths: 5

Merchants

  • Adventuring Goods Retellers: 4
  • Arcana Sellers: 4
  • Beer-Sellers: 8
  • Booksellers: 10
  • Butchers: 16
  • Chandlers: 16
  • Chicken Butchers: 18
  • Entrepreneurs: 6
  • Fine Clothiers: 15
  • Fishmongers: 16
  • Florists: 3
  • Potion Sellers: 10
  • Resellers: 25
  • Spice Merchants: 8
  • Wine-sellers: 13
  • Wheelwright: 9
  • Woodsellers: 6

Service workers

  • Bakers: 35
  • Barbers: 27
  • Coachmen: 9
  • Cooks: 32
  • Doctors: 13
  • Gamekeepers: 9
  • Grooms: 5
  • Hairdressers: 22
  • Healers: 16
  • Housekeepers: 18
  • Housemaids: 30
  • House Stewards: 16
  • Inns: 6
  • Laundry maids: 11
  • Maidservants: 20
  • Nursery Maids: 11
  • Pastrycooks: 22
  • Restaurateur: 29
  • Tavern Keepers: 23

Specialized Laborer

  • Ashworkers: 9
  • Bleachers: 5
  • Chemical Workers: 3
  • Coal Heavers: 13
  • In-Town Couriers: 15
  • Long Haul Couriers: 14
  • Dockyard Workers: 13
  • Gas Workers: 3
  • Hay Merchants: 5
  • Leech Collectors: 18
  • Millers: 14
  • Miners: 14
  • Oilmen and Polishers: 10
  • Postmen: 14
  • Pure Finder: 8
  • Skinners: 16
  • Sugar Refiners: 3
  • Tosher: 10
  • Warehousemen: 20
  • Watercarriers: 14
  • Watermen, Bargemen, etc.: 18

Skilled Laborers

  • Accountants: 8
  • Alchemist: 9
  • Clerk: 13
  • Dentists: 6
  • Educators: 17
  • Engineers: 9
  • Gardeners: 6
  • Mages: 4
  • Plumbers: 6
  • Pharmacist: 7
  • Professors: 2
  • Scientists: 4
  • Wizards: 2

Civil Servants

  • Adventurers: 6
  • Bankers: 8
  • Civil Clerks: 13
  • Civic Iudex: 7
  • Consultants: 4
  • Exorcist: 14
  • Fixers: 7
  • Kami Clerk: 12
  • Landlords: 13
  • Lawyers: 7
  • Legend Keepers: 10
  • Militia Officers: 53
  • Monks, Monastic: 19
  • Monks, Civic: 18
  • Historian, Oral: 15
  • Historian, Textual: 8
  • Policemen, Sheriffs, etc.: 16
  • Priests: 30
  • Rangers: 8
  • Rat Catchers: 9
  • Scholars: 9
  • Spiritualist: 11
  • Slayers: 3
  • Storytellers: 24
  • Military Officers: 21

Cottage Industries

  • Brewers: 22
  • Comfort Services: 24
  • Enchanters: 7
  • Herbalists: 7
  • Jaminators: 26
  • Needleworkers: 22
  • Potters: 11
  • Preserve Makers: 20
  • Quilters: 9
  • Seamsters: 33
  • Spinners: 18
  • Tinker: 7
  • Weaver: 16

Artists

  • Actors: 7
  • Architects: 2
  • Bards: 10
  • Costumers: 3
  • Dancers: 7
  • Drafters: 4
  • Engravers: 5
  • Fine Furniture Carpenters: 3
  • Glaziers: 6
  • Inlayers: 6
  • Musicians: 20
  • Painters, Art: 3
  • Playwrights: 6
  • Sculptors, Art: 5
  • Wood Carvers: 20
  • Writers: 23

Produce Industries

  • Butter Churners: 22
  • Canners: 19
  • Cheesmakers: 20
  • Ice Merchants: 2
  • Millers: 13
  • Picklers: 10
  • Smokers: 8
  • Stockmakers: 7
  • Tobacconists: 9
  • Tallowmakers: 14

2357 of Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

3623 of Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 450 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf is known for its unusual rock formations.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century the Kami spared the town from the rampage of a legendary monster. One of Vágenu-mingsor Xluwuf's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History