Wajé-rust Xluwuf

Wajé-rust Xluwuf (/wajj/ /rust/ [best] [compost; fertilizer]) is a subtropical Large City located in the Trērgslij Principality of the Nika.

The name Wajé-rust Xluwuf is derived from the Sylvin language, as Wajé-rust Xluwuf was founded by Trreggu, who was culturaly Gnoll.

Climate

Wajé-rust Xluwuf has a yearly average temperature of 2°C (35°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a cold 1°C (33°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 3°C (37°F). Wajé-rust Xluwuf receives an average of 218 cm/y (85 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Wajé-rust Xluwuf covers an area of nearly 156 km² (62 mi²), and an average elevation of 2088 m (6850 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Wajé-rust Xluwuf was founded durring the late 12th century in summer of the year 1091, by Trreggu. The establishment of Wajé-rust Xluwuf was somewhat plagued by a lack of willing colonists, leading to Trreggu electing to pay people to resettle in Wajé-rust Xluwuf.

Wajé-rust Xluwuf was built using the conventions of Gnoll durring the late 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Wajé-rust Xluwuf is no diffrent. The city's buildings feature stone brick construction with most buildings posessing towers, turrets, dormers, and wide wrap-around porches. An extreem emphasis on decorative features and emblishments can be seen even on the poorest of homes and makes even the most humble of structures seem a bit regal.

Wajé-rust Xluwuf is buildings are arranged arround a network of crampt cobblestone streets which form a diagonal shaped grid, where each square verries in size given the proximity of the paralell streets forming each section. The ocasional smaller square has been used to construct a park, plaza, and other communal structures. The city has a defencive wall made from querried stone. The wall is equipped with a full set of battlments but the nature of its construction methodology leaves it somewhat vulnerable to siege equipment. That said, the city is well defended against anything short of an army. Wajé-rust Xluwuf's cost-cutting-focused defences 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.

Right off the bat Wajé-rust Xluwuf 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. Many of those buildings are schools, scriptoriums, and even one college. One can only wonder what knowledge the town has come into.

Civic Infrastructure

Wajé-rust Xluwuf possesses a city-wide Aethary Link which provides Aethary access anywhere within its metropolitan. This allows citizens who can afford the relevant devices access in their places of work, and rarely homes.

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

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

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

Wajé-rust 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.

Wajé-rust 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.

Wajé-rust 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.

Wajé-rust 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.

Wajé-rust 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.

Wajé-rust 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.

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

Wajé-rust Xluwuf has an Administrative Academy which trains individuals in the administrative arts.

Wajé-rust 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 Large City. Wajé-rust Xluwuf's grid is powered by a boiler and turbine based power plant.

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

Wajé-rust Xluwuf has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Wajé-rust Xluwuf 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.

Wajé-rust 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 Wajé-rust Xluwuf's natural decorations nor waterways.

Wajé-rust 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.

Wajé-rust 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.

Wajé-rust 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.

Wajé-rust Xluwuf 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

Wajé-rust Xluwuf's garrison was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is known primarily for its use of abstraction and simplicity. Clean lines, right angles, and primary colors characterized this aesthetic and art movement expressed via architecture and paintings. Its design ethos allows only primary colors and non-colors, only squares and rectangles, only straight and horizontal or vertical lines. Vertical and horizontal lines are positioned in layers or planes that do not intersect, thereby allowing each element to exist independently and unobstructed by other elements. These seemingly impossible principals for an architectural style coalesces into structures which most experts find hard to put into words. It is not that their geometry is impossible, but rather the style's attempt at producing works only describable visually was most successful..

In Wajé-rust Xluwuf the stars are always right.

The Leopard, Snow (Cat, Great) near Wajé-rust Xluwuf are known to be almost tame, such that they can be put to domestic use.

Wajé-rust Xluwuf's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves embarking on a group pilgrimage to channel Necromancy energies of tier 2 via guttural bellowing.

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.

Wajé-rust Xluwuf Census Data: Year 2000

14044 of Wajé-rust Xluwuf's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 768 work in Agriculture
• 3159 work as Craftsmen
• 1147 work as Merchants
• 2134 work as Service Workers
• 1431 work as General Laborers
• 573 work as Skilled Laborers
• 2047 work as Civil Servants
• 1241 work in Cottage Industries
• 786 work as Artists
• 758 work in Produce Industries

22324 of Wajé-rust Xluwuf's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 742 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Wajé-rust Xluwuf is cursed with recurrent spells of some troublesome disease. The affliction isn’t so fatal as to make living there impossible, but it adds suffering and expense to local lives. The plague might be the product of an ancient curse, the results of long lost toxic remains, or an unavoidable byproduct of whatever industry or purpose justifies the city. It’s probably not overly contagious, but visitors may be in some peril all the same.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century, Wajé-rust Xluwuf was attacked by a renegade group of the army. The details of the conflict are hazy at best due to many conflicting accounts. What is known is Wajé-rust Xluwuf lost 261 people, 246 livestock, and 35 buildings. The conflict ended after roughly 72, when members of Wajé-rust Xluwuf's militia enacted an operation to rescue a particular solgiers group from the enemy. The operation was complicated by a significant percentage of the militia choose to go abandon the operation and return home. The conflict ended with the defense of the temple against a siege, which ended in a stalemate for Wajé-rust Xluwuf's forces. The war is remembered in legend by Wajé-rust Xluwuf's bards, historians, and legend keepers.

History