Zdët Ëwhi Med

Zdët Ëwhi Med (/zdɛt/ /ˈɛwhi/ [flat] [meeting]) is a temperate Large City located in the Yerakaymer Barony of the Viceroyalty of Rosid.

The name Zdët Ëwhi Med is derived from the Wood Elvish language, as Zdët Ëwhi Med was founded by Apogata Phiegror, who was culturaly Wood Elven.

Climate

Zdët Ëwhi Med has a yearly average temperature of 11°C (51°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 30°C (86°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a freezing -7°C (20°F). Zdët Ëwhi Med receives an average of 158 cm/y (62 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of snow during the pleasantly short winter months. Zdët Ëwhi Med covers an area of nearly 452 km² (180 mi²), and an average elevation of 3190 m (10465 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Zdët Ëwhi Med was founded durring the late 14th century in fall of the year 1299, by Apogata Phiegror. The establishment of the new community went well, with no major obsticles durring construction.

Zdët Ëwhi Med was built using the conventions of Wood Elven durring the late 14th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Zdët Ëwhi Med is no diffrent. The city'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.

Zdët Ëwhi Med is buildings are arranged arrounded highly ordered system of restrictive 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 city has a set of well fortified walls, with gatehouses, watch towers, battlments, and even a moat, which are fashioned from stone and timber. Zdët Ëwhi Med's walls are, howeaver, fashioned from stone and timber. While unorthadox, the design looks to be functional to a reasonable degree. With luck, the untested design will remain untested for years to come. Zdët Ëwhi Med's unusual though effective 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.

Zdët Ëwhi Med has a very calm atmosphere. People can be seen relaxing, scocilizing, and going about all manner of business other than the daily grind. Men, women, children, all can be seen enjoying life in a laid-back way in the many parks which line Zdët Ëwhi Med’s streets. A look around Zdët Ëwhi Med has something terribly wrong with it. It’s impossible to put one’s finger on, but something is horribly wrong. Maybe it’s the way fog blankets the ground, but only in the connors of places. Maybe it’s the vermin scutteling between shadows in the corner of your eyes. Perhaps it’s the overcast sky which seemed to creep out of nowhere, or the distant howling of wolves. Maybe it’s everything together. Regardless, you do not feel it would be wise to remain in Zdët Ëwhi Med long.

Civic Infrastructure

Zdët Ëwhi Med possesses a Aethary Link for its accademic, government, and financial institutions. Public Aethary access is available through one or more of these intitutions.

Zdët Ëwhi Med has an animal control department which works to enforce local ordinances relating to the control, impoundment, and disposition of animals.

Zdët Ëwhi Med 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 Zdët Ëwhi Med. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Zdët Ëwhi Med's parks.

Zdët Ëwhi Med has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Zdët Ëwhi Med.

Zdët Ëwhi Med 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.

Zdët Ëwhi Med 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.

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

Zdët Ëwhi Med has a Department of Firefighters, which is responsible for organizing fire fighting efforts during a fire and enforcing local ordinances relating to fire safety.

Zdët Ëwhi Med 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.

Zdët Ëwhi Med 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.

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

Zdët Ëwhi Med has an Arcane Academy which provides higher education in the arcane sciences.

Zdët Ëwhi Med 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. Zdët Ëwhi Med's grid is powered by an arcane means.

Zdët Ëwhi Med possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. In spite of the Galvanic Grid, these lights continue to use their old fule sources to provide nighttime illumination to all city streets.

Zdët Ëwhi Med has a first rate hospital which caters to anyone in need of long term medical care.

Zdët Ëwhi Med 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.

Zdët Ëwhi Med 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 Zdët Ëwhi Med's natural decorations nor waterways.

Zdët Ëwhi Med 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.

Zdët Ëwhi Med 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.

Zdët Ëwhi Med 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.

Zdët Ëwhi Med 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

The law within Zdët Ëwhi Med is highly corrupt, or does not apply to certain favored groups or castes. Strangers might be fleeced by local lawmen, evildoers can be absolved by a payment, and powerful gentry do as they please.

Zdët Ëwhi Med's town hall was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used is characterized by vertical proportions, pointed arches, external buttressing, and asymmetry in the general shape of its buildings. The decorative features of the style were key, consisting of large arched windows, pointed arches, vaulted ceilings, flying buttresses, and sculptures integrated into the structure itself. Occasionally, for very important buildings, an array of sculptures or one colossal sculpture might replace the entirety of the entrance to said building.

Due to the actions of local Kami, spring is short in Zdët Ëwhi Med.

The Udaeus near Zdët Ëwhi Med are known to be more aggressive than normal.

Zdët Ëwhi Med's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in autumn and involves gestures to channel Conjuration 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.

Zdët Ëwhi Med Census Data: Year 2000

40376 of Zdët Ëwhi Med's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 2226 work in Agriculture
• 8968 work as Craftsmen
• 3265 work as Merchants
• 6388 work as Service Workers
• 4163 work as General Laborers
• 1660 work as Skilled Laborers
• 5732 work as Civil Servants
• 3544 work in Cottage Industries
• 2281 work as Artists
• 2149 work in Produce Industries

61837 of Zdët Ëwhi Med's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 4258 (4%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Zdët Ëwhi Med's is something of a geological and arcane anomaly, as neither physical nor magical law entirely explains its formation.

POI

History

The the a set of greaves of Augury, an a set of greaves imbued with great amounts of Augury energies was created near Zdët Ëwhi Med by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History