Nexus/Districts


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Nexus

=Bastion= The well-to-do and well-connected of Nexus reside within; any others would do better to stay out. The place where the rich and powerful of Nexus come to live and play, Bastion is a district of large mansions, open parks, clean streets and frequent patrols by well-paid mercenaries. High enough above the river that it doesn’t get flooded, and far enough away from the center that the smells don’t carry in, even the servants who live here do so in conditions that would make many in other parts of Nexus green with envy.

=Cinnabar= The cultural and military center of the city, Cinnabar lines the river and floods regularly. A riverside district, Cinnabar is home to restaurants, teahouses, and cafés of highly variable quality, as well as being the site of annual and severe flooding. It also houses most of the mercenary companies who call Nexus their home, each one generally based within a fortified compound, with walls higher than the worst flood waters.

=Nighthammer= The noise of forges, smithies and other manufacturing processes resound night and day throughout the streets of Nighthammer. Industry rules in Nighthammer, a place where three or four times a day thousands of workers travel to and from their places of work within the forges, smithies, looms and other manufactories that produce the thousands of tonnes of goods that pour out of the city and into Creation on a daily basis. The air here is thick with smog and the rivers are heavily polluted by toxic effluents, both by-products of the production that brings so much wealth into Nexus.

The Hospital
=Sentinel's Hill= A vast residential area south of the Nexus District. This area of the city is filled with apartment buildings, hostels, tenement houses and town houses. Its is built upon a vast hill that rises up to Bastion and down into Firewander. The District is named so after the vast sentinel towers that local mercenaries watch out from to see if any wyld spun dangers are coming from Firewander. Several of prominent cultural ghettos are present in this district, Calin Town, Great Forks Town and Maruk Town.

The Golden Way
=The Undercity= The Undercity of Nexus is a series of caves and tunnels under Cinnabar and Sentinel Hill. The black fog of poor man’s breath clots and taints the air underground. The poor and those who are just scraping by live and work down here. Small, torch-lit markets thrive in the sunless enclave. Three main routes make getting around underground straightforward.

=Hollow=

The World Below
=Firewander= Eldhärje.

Solens torn
=Nexus District= The commercial and entrepreneurial center of Nexus, more silver pieces change hands here in a day than there are stars in the sky. Home to the Big and Little Markets, the Nexus district is where the real business of the city gets done. Home to the headquarters of the Guild and innumerable other trading companies, merchant organizations and caravan masters, if Bastion is where the rich and powerful rest, then the Nexus district is where they work.

=Locations=

Sondera
Gammal å, förvrängt namn från Zondergahn.

Talking Stick
Tavern, sorcerer meeting place. Innkeeper Murufu belongs to a secret police.

The Little Shop of Poisons
A small, obscure shop located in Cinnobar, established by Sarayn the Apothecary.

The Alehouse of Paladins
Inn close to the White Tower in Firewander, rumored to have been frequented by both Falar the Pig Farmer and Levi, the Protector.

The Artistic Prince
High-end, posh establishment in Cinnobar showing paintings by the richest younglings in town.

The Bawd's Deception
Nexus Docks. Fisherman's establishment.

Locations
Antechamber of Sarcophagi and Circles Blue Prison of the Archivist Brass Oubliette of the Chime Catacombs of Abysses Clever Lichs' Battlement Deceptive Hold of the Wizard Depository of the Sigl Diamond Greenhouse of Evocation Dungeon of the Altar Enchanted Mausoleum of Screams Gallery of Mastery God's Vestibule Greenhouse of Knowledge Jade Necropolis of Blood Lost Shrine of Marble Mine of the Diamond Repository of Fire Sickroom of the Jewel Spectral Park Stairwell of Passages and Locks