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What the lounge is to the members, the clubhouse is to the staff. This is where they come up with their schemes, and where they sleep when not doing anything.

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The Darkwood Keep is an expansive structure that actually includes the monarch's palace, the fortress were the army is housed, the city archives, as well as most of the administrative buildings.
Located to the extreme north of the city on a rise bordering the great forest, it was build centuries ago as a stronghold against invaders, though now most of the defensive structures have fallen into decay, while the more functional ones remain in good condition.
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Armyen is a relatively large area of the city, but houses relatively few people. Close to the keep, the upper tier contains the lavish homes of the city's rich and the nobility.
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Just off the market streets, Terigann is close to the center of the city, and sees lots of traffic. It is the home of most of the city's residents, and displays a wide range of wealth and styles.
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The market is the most vibrant part of the city, and it is hard to define where it begins and where it ends. Craftsmen and Tradesmen set up store in the buildings, while peddlers, farmers, and merchants sell their wares from stands and carts that line the streets.
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Forming a lose ring around the rest of the city is the nameless lower tier, the part of the city that most would chose to ignore. It is the slums, with the poor and the criminals living in decaying buildings, or patched-together shacks.
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"The Edge" is what the inhabitants call the rocky beach just to the south of the city. This is where the river meets the unusually clear ocean, and it is a place of relaxation with few waves and seemingly randomly placed boulders.
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The city gives way to an expansive area known as the stoneybrook meadow. It is fertile farmland and provides much of the food for the city, but it is also a place to relax in the tall grasses beside the stream.
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The darkwoods is a vast and forbidding forest that expands to the north of the city, gradually going over to evergreens as it nears the mountains. With its ancient trees, it is a place of peace, but also of menace.
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The degan marsh is one of the more remote locations in the world, where water, trapped on a flat plane, forms a large expanse of marsh before flowing on. It is not a very pleasant place to be, and certainly very dangerous.
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The marsh eventually forms a coherent body of water that, swollen from various tributaries, plunges down this sheer slope to create the spectacular glendora falls. A broad, deep pool forms at its base before the river continues its way through the forest to the ocean.
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The Tonet range is a large ridge of mountains that borders the known world to the north. Once the home of the Tonetta wolf pack, it is a place of stunning beauty and unforgiving elements.
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To the east, surprisingly close to the fertile, inhabited lands, the odori desert begins. It is an inhospitable environment of unknown size. Originally shifters were forbidden entry, but even since that ban was lifted, there are few travelers.
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The borderlands are a place of myth were it is said most humans enter the shifting world. It is an area of barren moor near the odori and tonet range, and rarely sees any travelers.
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