Ordora

Demographics

12% Goron
27% Gerudo
61% Hyrulean

Government

Ordora is jointly governed by a mayor and the manager of the mines. The importance of the mines in the village's economy and operation means whoever's the manager has always had a significant amount of say in village government, so the position was made official a few decades ago.

Industry & Trade

The primary industry of Ordora is its mines, which lie to the south, further down the slopes of Mt. Ordora. Approximately 75% of the village's population is involved in the mines in some way, whether that be direct physical labor, processing, or management. Other members of the community operate businesses and services, like the local shops and school, and a few work in the small farm to the east.

Infrastructure

A motor road forms a loop around the village, connecting to the route that travels first down to the mines, and then along through the desolate scrubland of Eldin before it comes to the town of Dn'aru. However, all of the internal streets of the village that most inhabitants frequent are cobbled and intended for pedestrians or bikers, and the train, which also travels directly to Dn'aru in a much more timely fashion, is far more convenient than the motor road. Very few inhabitants of the village own cars to begin with.
Due to the terrain, the streets of Ordora are steep and twisting, common of many Eldin towns and villages.
Despite its small size, Ordora's remote nature means it must be largely self-contained. Local structures include: a small medical center (close to the mines to better respond to accidents), the public Blynne Papho Memorial Library, a grocery market, a general goods store, a school building, Town Hall, a local milk bar named The Old Goat, the Mt. Ordora Inn, and the Temple of Our Brazen lady, a temple to Din.

Districts

In general, businesses and public buildings gravitate towards the center through-line of the valley, while the residential homes and apartments work their way up the sides until it simply becomes too steep.

History

Initially settled during Hyrule's industrial revolution in the year 384 MH, Ordora was, like many cities, towns, and villages across Eldin, originally a simple mining camp tucked into a sheltered mountain valley. As the years passed, the population became more permanent and a village emerged, officially becoming incorporated in the year 412 MH.

Tourism

Ordora is no tourist hot-spot. The mountain it's built on is not particularly scenic, not compared to the many other options across the Eldin Mountain that draw in avid hikers and amateur adventurers. The most frequent visitors are higher-ups from the refineries that Ordora sends material to, who come to negotiate or speak with the management of the mine. The diminutive Mt. Ordora Inn, nearby the train station and the post office, sees most of its use on these occasions.

Architecture

Architecture in Ordora is a tangled mess of stone clinging to the mountain. Hyulean architecture in general tends to have very little respect or concern for straight, neat lines, and the foundations of many houses and businesses were simply built where the mountain would allow it. Many buildings, especially in the center of the village, simply run into each other, and residential homes, some of which are built almost on top of each other, form courtyards around which all the families living there have access.
Most buildings are constructed out of simple grey stone, although some are roofed with red tiles. Ordora receives plenty of snow in the winter months, so roofs are sloped to avoid cave-ins. The area around the village is not geologically active, so buildings are not as blocky as what one would see near Death Mountain or Mt. Din.

Natural Resources

The mines to the south of the village proper are rich with iron ore that's mined and sent by train to refineries across Eldin, and this is, as any jaded teen in the village would tell you, "the only reason we're all here."
Anything else produced on the land around Ordora represents a long and determined fight, like the small farm that supplies the village with whatever hardy squashes and root vegetables will take root, cucco eggs, and goat milk. Luckily, the two nearby ponds are spring-fed and provide the village with ample water, but they have no existing fish populations and only seasonally provide some edible crayfish.

Founding Date

412

Population

2,703

Location under

Eldin Mountain Chain

Owning Organization

Eldin

Author's Note: Unlike other Hyrulean settlements I've written about in this world, Ordora is very distinctly NOT a major cultural or population center. After establishing many of the larger strokes of Hyrule's culture and makeup, I've been having a lot of fun focusing on the type of minutiae one would experience as a completely average, normal Hyrulean going about a mundane and average life. Ordora is the first location I came up with to set such non-adventurous adventures in, and there may well be others in the future to explore daily life in other provinces.