Vdrak-aw Med

Vdrak-aw Med (/vdrak/ /aw/ [spasm; orgasm] [window]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Erelu County of the Viceroyalty of Rosid.

The name Vdrak-aw Med is derived from the Wood Elvish language, as Vdrak-aw Med was founded by Dyesëm Gegumer, who was culturaly Wood Elven.

Climate

Vdrak-aw Med has a yearly average temperature of 17°C (62°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 26°C (78°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 8°C (46°F). Vdrak-aw Med receives an average of 149 cm/y (58 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Vdrak-aw Med covers an area of nearly 271 km² (108 mi²), and an average elevation of 3148 m (10328 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Vdrak-aw Med was founded durring the early 14th century in fall of the year 1306, by Dyesëm Gegumer. The establishment of Vdrak-aw Med was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Dyesëm Gegumer struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Vdrak-aw Med as a prison colony.

Vdrak-aw Med was built using the conventions of Wood Elven durring the early 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Vdrak-aw Med 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.

Vdrak-aw Med is is constructed arround a series of spacious packed earth mainstreets which form overlapping circles, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to eachother at varrious points. The city sits behind a stone-renforced palisade wall, with stone gatehouses and timber drawbridges for their trench. The city's would-be-castle fortifications 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.

Right off the bat Vdrak-aw Med hits you in the face with its success. Everyone, even the peasants, are dressed in well made clothing. Every tool and implement you can see is finely made, and people will boast to you as obvious strangers of the wonders which can be found in their markets. More interestingly is a total lack of beggars, and plenty of new buildings are going up even as you speak. Somehow this city has come into quite a lot of wealth, and recently from the looks of things. This wealth has brought the city nothing but neurosis, if you can believe your eyes. Everyone acts as if you’re out to take a piece of them. Every door is locked and every window barred. Efforts are made to make you feel welcome, but only in the public areas of the city, particularly the market.

Civic Infrastructure

Vdrak-aw Med possesses a Aethary Link for its accademic, government, and financial institutions. Public Aethary access is available through one or more of these intitutions.

Vdrak-aw Med has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Vdrak-aw Med 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 Vdrak-aw Med. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Vdrak-aw Med's parks.

Vdrak-aw Med has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Vdrak-aw Med.

Vdrak-aw Med 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.

Vdrak-aw Med 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.

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

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

Vdrak-aw Med 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.

Vdrak-aw Med 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.

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

Vdrak-aw Med has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Vdrak-aw Med 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. Vdrak-aw Med's grid is powered by a direct leyline tap.

Vdrak-aw Med possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. In spite of the Galvanic Grid, these lights continue to use their old fule sources to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Vdrak-aw Med has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Vdrak-aw Med 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.

Vdrak-aw Med 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 Vdrak-aw Med's natural decorations nor waterways.

Vdrak-aw Med 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.

Vdrak-aw Med 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.

Vdrak-aw Med 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.

Vdrak-aw Med 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

Vdrak-aw Med's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used makes use of a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse and symmetrical central-plan, resulting in buildings with a square central mass and four arms of equal length. Decorative features included domed rooves, arches, soaring spaces, and sumptuous decoration: marble columns and inlay, mosaics on the vaults, inlaid-stone pavements, and sometimes gold coffered ceilings.

In Vdrak-aw Med rain occurs in reverse with water pooling up from the earth then falling into the skies to from clouds, this unsettles every visitor that sees it.

The Jackal, Switchback near Vdrak-aw Med are known to be quite timid.

Vdrak-aw Med's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in summer and involves square dance to channel Abjuration energies of tier 1 via oath swearing.

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.

Vdrak-aw Med Census Data: Year 2000

24345 of Vdrak-aw Med's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 1398 work in Agriculture
• 5540 work as Craftsmen
• 1931 work as Merchants
• 3643 work as Service Workers
• 2486 work as General Laborers
• 1006 work as Skilled Laborers
• 3591 work as Civil Servants
• 2167 work in Cottage Industries
• 1339 work as Artists
• 1244 work in Produce Industries

37818 of Vdrak-aw Med's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 1922 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Many of Vdrak-aw Med’s structures date back to the ancient past and a long-vanished culture. They have unique architectural traits, perhaps being made of some strange substance or with uncanny qualities. The locals find them too useful or too durable to destroy, but the buildings often have unpleasant little surprises in their under-explored corners, and there may be greater structures still buried by long ages beneath Vdrak-aw Med’s streets.

Vdrak-aw Med makes use of canals for some of its streets. Locals often fish in the canals.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century the Kami blessed the town with wealth for a year and a day. One of Vdrak-aw Med's local festivals commemorates this miracle.

History