Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka (/wə̝q/ /ˈmihuv/ [cold] [worm]) is a subtropical Town located in the Madraměvì District of the Federation of Alveria.

The name Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka is derived from the Constructi language, as Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka was founded by Èbëkèdo Èdsm, who was culturaly Constructi.

Climate

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka has a yearly average temperature of 15°C (59°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a pleasant 22°C (71°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cold 9°C (48°F). Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka receives an average of 217 cm/y (85 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka covers an area of nearly 6 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 1156 m (3792 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka was founded durring the late 14th century in spring of the year 1287, by Èbëkèdo Èdsm. The establishment of Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka was only bairly constructed. The sheer number of problems with its founding were enough to make several of the backers funding Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka's construction back out of the project. Èbëkèdo Èdsm pushed on reguardles, and Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka was finished, but starts off as a terible place to live.

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka was built using the conventions of Constructi durring the late 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka is no diffrent. The town'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.

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka is buildings folow an organic layout of restrictive baked earthen streets whihch gives the town a shape simmilar to a tree, if one views its streets from above. The town is the proud owner of a thick set of fortified walls fashioned from querried stone blocks. While not up to snuff for a fort or castle wall, the town's walls are naturaly much larger than those of forts or castles. Therefore, the construction such a wall is most expencive. Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka's buget focused wall would serve its community well in battle in spite of looking unimpressive compared to castles and fortresses. Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka's top tier civilian fortifications 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.

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka 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

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka 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 Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka's parks.

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka.

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka 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.

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka 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.

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

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka 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 Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka's natural decorations nor waterways.

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka 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.

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka 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.

Cultural Notes

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka's citizens locals enjoy many vices and lustful appetites. They may have religious sanction for their deeds, or neighbors might trade with them for such things, or they could be followers of some ideology that blesses such pursuits. Their economy or their social organization is usually heavily reliant on such traffic, and to ensure its continuance they may have made bargains with various mortal and immortal powers.

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka's bank was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by grandeur of scale, simplicity of geometric forms, dramatic use of columns, and a preference for blank walls. This design ethos extended to re-imagining earlier styles of structure to create them anew, with a similar overall look and feel to one another..

In Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka 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 Vapor Wasp near Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves bloodletting to channel Wild Magic energies of tier 1 via 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.

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka Census Data: Year 2000

443 of Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 27 work in Agriculture
• 97 work as Craftsmen
• 33 work as Merchants
• 76 work as Service Workers
• 45 work as General Laborers
• 17 work as Skilled Laborers
• 62 work as Civil Servants
• 42 work in Cottage Industries
• 21 work as Artists
• 23 work in Produce Industries

873 of Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 98 (7%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Wăq Mihuv Birěkhka 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 Tarn Dora began to boil, and released a thick toxic cloud from beneath its waters which devastated , 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. An estimated people, livestock, and buildings were lost to the disaster. The disaster is referred to as the Anguish Wind.

History