Wæm Ya Ǐw

Wæm Ya Ǐw (/ja/ /ɪw/ [sick; ill; unwell] [mine (location)]) is a subtropical Town located in Kw-48xojĭtul Zone, Wv-0săbb District, within the Federation of Alveria.

The name Wæm Ya Ǐw is derived from the Constructi language, as Wæm Ya Ǐw was founded by Achassien Brënka, who was culturaly Constructi.

Climate

Wæm Ya Ǐw has a yearly average temperature of 32°C (89°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a blistering 35°C (95°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a warm 29°C (84°F). Wæm Ya Ǐw receives an average of 93 cm/y (36 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the spring. Wæm Ya Ǐw covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 15718 m (8618 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Wæm Ya Ǐw was founded durring the early 15th century in winter of the year 1419, by Achassien Brënka. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Wæm Ya Ǐw was built using the conventions of Constructi durring the early 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Wæm Ya Ǐw is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature delicute timber framework hidden behind layer upon layer of finly ground plaster bleached to an almost glossy white sheen, with green clay tiled roofs and decorative brass-leafed trim. Even the smallest, poorest looking structures appear to be expencive thanks to the extreem elegence of the organic shapes and paterns going into their lofty, spire-y, vagly gothic designs. The more well off folks live in identicle homes, save for even shiner trim and a more whimsical appearance to their structures flowing forms.

Wæm Ya Ǐw is is constructed arround a semi-circular crampt cobblestone mainstreet, with smaller strait roads linking the circiles to eachother at varrious points. The town is protected by a humble stone fence which is tall enough to provide adiquite cover for defenders to fire from, but no more than that. Unfortuantly, these peasent-grade are in extreem disrepair, so much so that one cannot tell if they are decaying from a lack of mantance or damage incured.

Wæm Ya Ǐw is not quite well. Something happened here, perhapse recently, perhapse long ago. Whatever it was, it settled into the very soul of the town like a festering wound. The people go about their day well enough, but there’s a tention in the air you can cut with a knife. You get the terrible feeling that whatever it was, the wound it left will simply never heal. This town is as a necropolice.

Civic Infrastructure

Wæm Ya Ǐw has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Wæm Ya Ǐw has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Wæm Ya Ǐw.

Wæm Ya Ǐw 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.

Wæm Ya Ǐw has a Guild of Nurses, which is tasked with caring for the elderly and infirm in accordance with local ordinances, religious values, and customs.

Wæm Ya Ǐw 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.

Wæm Ya Ǐw 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.

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

Wæm Ya Ǐw possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

Wæm Ya Ǐw has a Parks and Recreation Department, which is responsible for the construction, management, and usage rights for all of its parks and parklands.

Wæm Ya Ǐw 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.

Wæm Ya Ǐw 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

Wæm Ya Ǐw's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is best known for the combined use of arcuated and trabeated construction, employing arches and constructed with post and lintel. The arch served as the style's chief structural element, with flanking columns serving as buttresses or decorations. While the general shape of their structures could be generously described as simplistic, the use of these arches and columns created a most distinct ascetic which is easily distinguishable on sight to armatures and experts alike.

In Wæm Ya Ǐw sometimes, near one of the seasonal solstices, the sun appears to split into three and it rains from a clear sky for several hours.

The Flowering Lattice near Wæm Ya Ǐw are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Wæm Ya Ǐw's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves line dance to channel Truename Magic energies of tier 1 via throat 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.

Wæm Ya Ǐw Census Data: Year 2000

348 of Wæm Ya Ǐw's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 22 work in Agriculture
• 78 work as Craftsmen
• 27 work as Merchants
• 59 work as Service Workers
• 32 work as General Laborers
• 12 work as Skilled Laborers
• 48 work as Civil Servants
• 35 work in Cottage Industries
• 16 work as Artists
• 19 work in Produce Industries

794 of Wæm Ya Ǐw's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 23 (2%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Wæm Ya Ǐw has access to some sort of functioning ancient infrastructure, whether it's an array of wall-mounted arcane energy projectors, running water, moving roadways, community-wide climate control, or some other inherited luxury. This infrastructure may be the result of a still-functional Working, or it could be the product of some venerable occult engine that's still operational, or it may be the fruit of the labors of some specially-designed organism or Blighted populace.

Wæm Ya Ǐw is known for its odd use of round-a-bouts, small ring roads used in place of intersections.

POI

History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century heavy spring rains following an uncharacteristically dry year and a minor earthquake resulted in the collapse of the east face of Mount Doom. the landslide struck Wæm Ya Ǐw, and devastated the community. 279 people, 176 livestock, and 73 buildings were lost to the calamity. The disaster is recorded in history as Doom's Fall.

History