The Noble District

Wandering through from the lower city, one might begin to believe that this district was not genuinely part of the same place. Attractive townhouses are interspersed by a number of well tended walled gardens. The noble district is primarily a residential area, however, there are some more exclusive traders who choose to conduct the trade on the outskirts of the district. In the centre there is a town hall where the aristocracy go to argue about matters of bureacracy and their petty grievances.

The current district counciller [PURELY A TOKEN TITLE, HE HAS NO POWER WHATSOEVER UNDER ZERO AND GENERALLY SPENDS HIS TIME LISTENING TO THE ARISTOCRACY’S PETTY GRIEVANCES AND ATTENDING FINE MEALS] is a man named Major Whittaker [IS MILITARY TITLE IS LIKEWISE A TOKEN]. He is a rather large man, famed for his love of food and drinking. He is not well liked, as it is said he is a foul and lazy man who was placed in position by Zero merely to keep the nobility happy.

Despite appearances, however, the mob still has some influence in the district. The nobility are not required to pay protection money, this section of the mob is far more subtle than that. The district is home to a somewhat notorious gentleman’s club, where the younger members of wealthy families are rumoured to go to supply themselves with coutesans and designer drugs. One such place is the Hotel Desdinia, which is hidden down a back alleyway amongst the extravagant townhouses. It is a beautiful building covered in ivy and gothic architecture. The Landlady, Lady Isabella De Plante is an attractive woman somewhere in her mid-forties. She has supposedly connections to one or more of the mobs and it is said that one ought to be careful what they say in her company. [THE LADY IS ACTUALLY A SHAMAN OF THE WATER AND USES HER POWER TO GET SECRETS OUT OF HER GUESTS. SHE WORKS FOR THE COLUMNA FAMILY, GATHERING INFORMATION FROM THE NOBILITY THAT CAN BE USED LATER, SAY FOR BLACKMAIL].