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The Heights
Wealth, private technology and families who have controlled Vesper for generations.
Archive pendingA city built for tomorrow. A city that never quite arrived.
Vesper is a city built from conflicting eras. Ancient stone sits beneath experimental steel. Machines designed decades ago still operate alongside technologies that officially should not exist.
The future did arrive in Vesper. It simply arrived badly.
Generations of ambitious engineers, industrialists and scientists attempted to turn the city into a model of tomorrow. Their machines survived longer than their companies, their governments and sometimes their creators.
Nothing was ever truly discarded. Old infrastructure was repaired. New systems were built on top of older ones. Entire districts became layered records of technological ambition and urban decay.
Districts, institutions, corporations and forgotten places that shaped the city.
Wealth, private technology and families who have controlled Vesper for generations.
Archive pendingGothic facades, old theaters, forgotten rail lines and the oldest secrets in the city.
Archive pendingCrowded streets, illegal markets and technology rebuilt from whatever survives.
Archive pendingFactories, abandoned research facilities and infrastructure officially forgotten.
Archive pendingAn old psychiatric hospital with a much newer secret buried beneath it.
Archive pendingForty-seven official deaths. An unknown number of unofficial survivors.
RestrictedVesper created the circumstances. These people decided what to become.
Official records state that forty-seven people died in the Saint Dorian incident. Internal records indicate that several patients were transferred before the fire. Other records indicate that some of those patients never existed.
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