Yäzka

Downtown Yäzka from above, circa May 2025

Yäzka's current governor: Hyrhàa Ỳr (Ëteren in Oge)

Yäzka is the most densely populated city in Wänade, and became the political capitol in the afternoon of April 28, 2025. The city is home to Yäzka Station on the Density loop, and is currently the easternmost city in the ŋorld.

History

Early-Establishment

Originally annexed as the Southern Exclave of Wänade, the plains village which would eventually become Yäzka had existed relatively untouched since the dawn of the ngorld (with the exception of most of the villagers’ chests already being raided at some point before HP Nahia’s premier expedition to the town in spring of 2025). The village was claimed in an effort to afford its citizens villagers’ rights, which had been transferred from old Karrabian law into Wänade’s first official law book.

For much of the village’s history under Wänade occupation it remained completely untouched. This was in part due to the lack of long-distance infrastructure in the ngorld’s far east, though the majority of the hold up was bureaucratic in nature. The strict “below-the-treeline” mandate imposed on all Wänade territory spelt logistical disaster for the citizens of the village; not even a torch could be placed from a legal standpoint, given the complete lack of trees in the village.

The courts were in a stalemate until about April 10, 2025, when an unknown Raani vigilante was seen planting cherry and oak saplings in the middle of the night. This activity continued for several weeks, though the culprit’s identity remains a well-kept secret among old exclave-locals. Regardless of legality, the trees grew, and thus began the Wänade military-arboreal complex anew. Wänade’s High Priestess reached out to several neighboring states, who together established the Far-East Rail and Road Association. Soon after the city of Yäzka was established under the pretense that construction of new buildings could occur below the newly created tree-line.

Yäzkäfutu

The city’s name is a direct quote from one of the High Priestess’s journals, transcribed into English as: “And then I broke through the topsoil. And there she was, hill through the fog from the cold sea on the warm sand.” The villagers were allowed to name their village in their language and decided upon reading their translated version of that specific journal entry, “Hill-through-fog” became the word they used to describe their home. This would be translated back into Oge as Yäzkäfutu, and eventually shortened for international pronounceability's sake to its current form: Yäzka.

Current Events

Deepen the Tree-line Initiative

Efforts are being made by the local government (with administrative funding) to expand even further below the tree-line. Downtown Yäzka has been practically gridlocked for 3 weeks while the old north-end was completely excavated. A catwalk has been erected to ensure villagers living in the (now) second-story suites can still go about their lives as usual, nearly doubling the usable horizontal space, and doubling to tripling the volume of every building already built in the north end. Governor Ëteren was quoted on the scene saying, "...we have big plans for the easternmost city, and now we've got plenty of space to grow into."