Wæm Ě Semă

Wæm Ě Semă (/ɛ/ /ˈsemə̝/ [new; unique] [fiber]) is a subtropical Small Town located in Ul-29sìljĭě Zone, Wv-0săbb District, within the Federation of Alveria.

The name Wæm Ě Semă is derived from the Constructi language, as Wæm Ě Semă was founded by Tb-98u 'Victor' Zlegfê, who was culturaly Constructi.

Climate

Wæm Ě Semă has a yearly average temperature of 25°C (77°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 29°C (84°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a pleasant 22°C (71°F). Wæm Ě Semă receives an average of 152 cm/y (59 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Wæm Ě Semă covers an area of nearly 4 km² (1 mi²), and an average elevation of 4906 m (16095 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Wæm Ě Semă was founded durring the late 12th century in fall of the year 1088, by Tb-98u 'Victor' Zlegfê. The establishment of Wæm Ě Semă suffered from several major issues, resulting in the need to develop many solutions to basic problems. Problems such as a lack of fresh water, logistical support, poor quality tools, and the odd monster or two. Howeaver, these were overcome in time.

Wæm Ě Semă was built using the conventions of Constructi durring the late 12th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Wæm Ě Semă is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature waddle and daub construction with good timber frames and a stone foundation protected by thatched or shingled rooves. Most buildings with second floors are built in such a way as to overhang into the streets on the upper floors for more space, as building size seems to be the primary indicator of wealth within the community. Most buildings are not decorated with any integral features, but instead use ivy, flowers, and other natural elements in planters of on trellices to breathe life into the structure they grow upon.

Wæm Ě Semă is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of restrictive cobblestone 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 posesses a mighty albit amaturly crafted stone wall. It was built using querried stone blocks and posesses all of the standard defencive features, including a few watch towers. While it would last against a siege, the wall's outdated and simplistic construction method percludes the possability of Wæm Ě Semă weathering a full scale bombardment durring a siege. Wæm Ě Semă's budget focused millitary grade defenses are suffering from significent damage, so much so that examples can be pointed to no matter which section one might have within their line of site, and most of which render sections inoperable at present.

Wæm Ě Semă is, in a word, disorder. People seem to be allowed to do as they please with little harmoney to anything. It feels less like a town, and more like a spot people just happened to place their homes. Yet there are small elements here and there which show the underlying structure of the community. It’s just so complex, organic, and flowing one can only understand what is a piece of the puzzle, but not what its neighbors are.

Civic Infrastructure

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

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

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

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

Wæm Ě Semă 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

Wæm Ě Semă's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by towering round arches, massive stone and brickwork, small windows, thick walls, and a propensity for housing art and sculpture depicting mythological scenes. The building's general shape would be a clever and ascetic combination of geometric shapes, which would be blended together by joining elements. The style's decorative features were largely internal rather than external and incorporated semicircular arches for windows, doors, and arcades; barrel or groin vaults to support the roof of the nave; massive piers and walls, with few windows, to contain the outward thrust of the vaults; side aisles with galleries above them..

In Wæm Ě Semă all of the cats speak in a dead language.

The Sylph near Wæm Ě Semă are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Wæm Ě Semă's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves line dance to channel Invocation energies of tier 2 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.

Wæm Ě Semă Census Data: Year 2000

272 of Wæm Ě Semă's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 21 work in Agriculture
• 59 work as Craftsmen
• 19 work as Merchants
• 44 work as Service Workers
• 26 work as General Laborers
• 10 work as Skilled Laborers
• 41 work as Civil Servants
• 26 work in Cottage Industries
• 11 work as Artists
• 15 work in Produce Industries

669 of Wæm Ě Semă's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 29 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Wæm Ě Semă is home to some form of natural wonder. It could be a hot spring, or an especially enchanting glade, or a particular vista. Whatever it is, it's such a lovely attraction that Wæm Ě Semă sees its fair share of tourists every year from all across Eyom. Consequently, its residents speak many languages at a functional level.

Due to a magical anomaly, Wæm Ě Semă is directly accessible from a nearby river, despite the lack of a physical connection between the town's pond and the river.

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History

In time immemorial, reportedly some time during the early 2nd century Pond Drumond began to boil, and released a thick toxic cloud from beneath its waters which brought great calamity to the entire nation, killing every person and animal in its path which could not escape the cloud. Oddly, the plants of the region flourished in the years after the disaster. The disaster brought an end to people, livestock, and buildings. The disaster is referred to as the Grief Wind.

History