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+ | =====City Strata===== | ||
+ | Although typically associated with social strata, this refers to the literal layers of the city that one finds in most places. | ||
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+ | ===Pinnacles=== | ||
+ | Where the most elite citizens typically live, the pinnacles of the city jut up into the sky where they are lit all day long by the sun, and are never in shadow. | ||
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+ | ===Heights=== | ||
+ | Near the pinnacles, these places can look down on the " | ||
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+ | ===Rooftops=== | ||
+ | These are buildings and streets that have nothing directly above them, but are generally overshadowed much of the day by the heights and pinnacles, and the bridges and other infrastructure that may connect them (which will some day become the new roof when they grow together). Often this is the cite of the educated professional classes of the city. Those who live on the rooftops - and certainly those above them - enjoy meals most often at home prepared by servants who go to get food on a daily basis. It is simply usually too difficult for denizens this far up to go to the farms to get food for themselves. There are some few shops and markets that exist on this level by buying food from the farms and reselling it to the people this far up. | ||
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+ | ===The Roof=== | ||
+ | Just under the rooftops these places can get occasional light through skylights, but even then it's somewhat rare, depending on the specifics of the location. | ||
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+ | ===The Chasms=== | ||
+ | Below the roof, but with occasional ability to have light seep in through crevices in the roof, this level is almost dark, almost all of the time. Commoners and laborers who work for the people above find these places home, if they' | ||
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+ | ===The Warrens=== | ||
+ | Where light finally fails is where the a large proportion of the population lives in something approaching poverty. The Warrens are, at least, mostly devoid of sewage flow, or bodies or the like, and the rats here are not too much of a nuisance, if ever-present. Everyone in the warrens on down goes to the farms directly for food, often going there daily. | ||
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+ | ===The Underneath=== | ||
+ | Below the Warrens are areas that start to become abandoned, as they do not have much access to the upper layers, and usually one can find housing in the Warrens if nowhere else. That said, the dispossessed of society reside in the Underneath, because they are not wanted, even in the warrens. Sewage begins to pile up in the Underneath in places, but usually it is routed to the depths below. In many places the Underneath gives out directly to the ground level where the farms are, and those who live near this border actually have quite a convenience. Again, right where the Underneath gives out to the farm opening is better thought of as part of the roof layer in terms of how sought it is. | ||
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+ | ===The Depths=== | ||
+ | A big layer, these are areas below the Underneath, where almost nobody lives, except for the occasional hermit. I some cases, the Depths may even go under ground level (though it's often very hard to know this for sure). The depths are an awful place that people avoid unless they have a job that takes them there. | ||
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+ | ===The Deeps=== | ||
+ | Some few have explored the Depths in places enough to know that one can go even further down. Or so they say. Rumors of huge serpents that live off of waste, demon caverns, corpse-eating humanoids, fungal forests, and even ancient gods buried here are surely just that... rumors... This layer, if it exists, is definitely below ground in most places, and who can say how deep the deeps go? | ||
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=====Universal Organizations===== | =====Universal Organizations===== | ||
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And though most denizens of the city see the harvesters as somehow rustic, this is entirely a preconception formed by meeting very few. They are, in fact, just as cosmopolitan and mixed up in the affairs of the city as are the other citizens. | And though most denizens of the city see the harvesters as somehow rustic, this is entirely a preconception formed by meeting very few. They are, in fact, just as cosmopolitan and mixed up in the affairs of the city as are the other citizens. | ||
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- | ECCO | + | ====Ecumenical |
+ | Abbreviated EBCO, this organization certifies that the many oracles and prophets of the numerous religions of the Great City are what they say they are; individuals capable of telling people' | ||
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+ | ====Ratcatcher' | ||
+ | A rather informal organization, | ||
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+ | Rats are a pervasive and pandemic problem of the Great City. Ratcatchers do not hope to have a chance of eradicating rats from any portion of it, and instead focus on just trying to keep areas they' | ||
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+ | =====Art Inspirations===== | ||
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