Vèsetha-shecê Bî

Vèsetha-shecê Bî (/vèˈseθa/ /ˈʃecɘ/ [offensive] [nutrition]) is a subtropical Town located in the Sëcëngêki Zone of the Union of Engineers.

The name Vèsetha-shecê Bî is derived from the Iron Elvish language, as Vèsetha-shecê Bî was founded by Celenil Glkdsê, who was culturaly Iron Elven.

Climate

Vèsetha-shecê Bî has a yearly average temperature of 21°C (69°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 25°C (77°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 17°C (62°F). Vèsetha-shecê Bî receives an average of 224 cm/y (88 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the summer. Vèsetha-shecê Bî covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 1904 m (6246 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Vèsetha-shecê Bî was founded durring the late 14th century in winter of the year 1257, by Celenil Glkdsê. The establishment of Vèsetha-shecê Bî was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Vèsetha-shecê Bî's construction back out of the project. Celenil Glkdsê pushed on reguardles, and Vèsetha-shecê Bî was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

Vèsetha-shecê Bî was built using the conventions of Iron Elven durring the late 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Vèsetha-shecê 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.

Vèsetha-shecê Bî is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of premissive flagstone streets which form octogonal 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 town is protected by a series of wooden fences ringing the town's parimiter, which are likly intended to keep varrious beasts out of town rather than protect it from attack by any intelegent agents. The bare minimum defences have not been wellmaintained over the years, and while functional are in dire need of some loving care and perhapse light renovation.

A look around Vèsetha-shecê Bî makes it abundantly clear the town suffered something horrible some time ago. It’s a quiet town filled with closed scriptoriums, people quietly yet dejectedly reading in isolated places around town, and the occasional book laying in a heap of garbage.

Civic Infrastructure

Vèsetha-shecê Bî has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

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

Vèsetha-shecê 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.

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

Vèsetha-shecê 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.

Vèsetha-shecê 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.

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

Vèsetha-shecê Bî has an Administrative Academy which trains individuals in the administrative arts.

Vèsetha-shecê Bî possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

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

Vèsetha-shecê 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

Vèsetha-shecê Bî's garrison 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 Vèsetha-shecê Bî the milk never sours.

The Gravebound near Vèsetha-shecê Bî are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Vèsetha-shecê Bî's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves square dance to channel Invocation energies of tier 3 via proclamations.

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.

Vèsetha-shecê Bî Census Data: Year 2000

345 of Vèsetha-shecê Bî's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 21 work in Agriculture
• 75 work as Craftsmen
• 27 work as Merchants
• 57 work as Service Workers
• 34 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 52 work as Civil Servants
• 33 work in Cottage Industries
• 17 work as Artists
• 17 work in Produce Industries

790 of Vèsetha-shecê Bî's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 23 (2%) are noncontributers.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century, Vèsetha-shecê Bî was attacked by soldiers from another nation, waging a greater campaign. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Vèsetha-shecê Bî lost 299 people, 368 livestock, and 64 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 116, when members of Vèsetha-shecê Bî's militia enacted an operation to bring aid to another fighting force. The operation was complicated by the enemy forces had far more numbers than estimated. The conflict ended with the defense of the port against a siege, which ended in victory for Vèsetha-shecê Bî's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Vèsetha-shecê Bî's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

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