Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka

Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka (/ˈmadra/ /wə̝/ [loud; noisy] [book]) is a subtropical Town located in the Yăvajĭkǐkh District of the Federation of Alveria.

The name Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka is derived from the Constructi language, as Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka was founded by Arianrhod Trgfèj, who was culturaly Constructi.

Climate

Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka has a yearly average temperature of 23°C (73°F), with its average temperature during the summer being a warm 28°C (82°F) and its average temperature during the winter being a cool 19°C (66°F). Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka receives an average of 212 cm/y (83 in/y) of precipitation, most of which comes in the form of rain during the fall. Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka covers an area of nearly 6 km² (2 mi²), and an average elevation of 4162 m (13654 ft) above sea level.

Overview

Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka was founded durring the late 15th century in summer of the year 1359, by Arianrhod Trgfèj. The establishment of Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka was plagued by a lack of willing colonists. After attempts to pay people to resettle failed Arianrhod Trgfèj struck deals with nearby nations and communities to establish Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka as a prison colony.

Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka was built using the conventions of Constructi durring the late 15th century. Naturaly, all settlmentss have their own look to them, and Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka is no diffrent. The town's buildings feature masoned stone construction which prominantly features pointed arches, pointed ribbed vault cielings, flying buttress', and window tracery all of which share a simmilar gemoetetic patern halfway between organic and inorganic in design formaing a very distinct aesthetically integrated style. BUildings tend to reach for the havens, and more expencive homes are easily identified by their floor count as well as the addition of decorative features intigrated into the building's design such as statues, gargoyals, and embelished joinery.

Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka is buildings are speckled and packed arround spacious packed earth streets with seemingly no patern to them. It appears as if the town's residents simply built streets as they pleased and squeazed buildings in wherever and howeave rpossible, creating an organic, frustrating to navigate, maze of a town. The town rests behind the absurdity that is a thick, timber braced, wall made of clay bricks. While visualy impressive and certainly an astetic, Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka's wall provides no actual defence against siege equipment due to the choice of its cosntruction materials. Even nonexperts can tell the town is trying to impress rather than defend with its walls, towers, and gatehouses. Though admittedly, they do look nice... To primitive tribals who have never seen fortifications before. Unfortuantly, these political statment focused walls are in extreem disrepair, so much so that one cannot tell if they are decaying from a lack of mantance or damage incured.

Before you’ve even set foot into the heart of Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka, you can smell it. The incense. It hangs about the town like a cloud. Monks, priests, and clerics are everywhere, all dedicated to the same god, all performing the same rituals to bless and anoint buildings, streets, people, animals, you name it they are or have blessed it. The same holy symbol is everywhere too. Its on buildings, on people, and even branded into livestock. This certainly loves its god. More than it loves wealth. The town is very clearly poor. Buildings are run down in ways that are not imeadiatly obvious. The people are a bit too thin. The market is very eager to sell to newcomers, but not so eager to buy from them. There’s also a general lack of the hum and buzz of healthy industry in Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka.

Civic Infrastructure

Zf-8p Wă 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 Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka. They are also responsible for the maintenance of these features. Notably, the OCG is not responsible for Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka's parks.

Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka has an Office of Civil Vicary, which is responsible for providing a livelyhood for all officialy recognised religious figures within Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka.

Zf-8p Wă 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.

Zf-8p Wă 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.

Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka has a monistary of an order of Civil Monks, who provide divine-related services to the general public and maintain Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka's public wards, blessings, and other arcane systems.

Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka possesses an older civil lighting system consisting of street lamps. These lights provide nighttime illumination to most city streets.

Zf-8p Wă 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 Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka's natural decorations nor waterways.

Zf-8p Wă 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.

Zf-8p Wă 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

While Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka has a public leader, the real authority is hidden from outsiders. This ruler may draw their authority from rationales unacceptable to outsiders, they may have cowed the public authority into obedience, or they may have a mutually beneficial private arrangement with the official ruler.

Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka's mayor's house was built using a different architectural style from the rest of the town. The style used makes use of a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse and symmetrical central-plan, resulting in buildings with a square central mass and four arms of equal length. Decorative features included domed rooves, arches, soaring spaces, and sumptuous decoration: marble columns and inlay, mosaics on the vaults, inlaid-stone pavements, and sometimes gold coffered ceilings.

Due to the actions of local Kami, winter is short in Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka.

The Stag, Emperor near Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka are known to be a mutant strain of the creature.

Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka's citizens partake in a curious ritual relating to their local kami. It takes place in spring and involves creating small tokens to channel Abjuration energies of tier 1 via speaking in tongues.

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.

Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka Census Data: Year 2000

452 of Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka's population work within a Foundational Occupation.

• 26 work in Agriculture
• 99 work as Craftsmen
• 34 work as Merchants
• 76 work as Service Workers
• 44 work as General Laborers
• 16 work as Skilled Laborers
• 69 work as Civil Servants
• 41 work in Cottage Industries
• 22 work as Artists
• 25 work in Produce Industries

937 of Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka's population do not work in a formal occupation, but do contribute to the local economy. 42 (3%) are noncontributers.

Points of Interest

Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka is known for its well built pedestrian paths, which include foot bridges to cross the main street at several high-traffic areas.

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History

The the an Armband of Enchantment, an an Armband imbued with potent amounts of Enchantment energies was created near Zf-8p Wă Birěkhka by in time immemorial, reportedly some time during the late 2nd century.

History