Echor City, USA

 

People of Echor City

  • ALPHA are super soldiers created in Augur Corp’s bioengineering program. ALPHA’s have preternatural strength or speed, and ALPHA Prime even have additional powers such as the ability to generate electricity or manipulate light. Their existence is down to Augur’s ‘Wonder Serum’, but the details of the bioengineering program that creates them are secret – and if you ask Sebastian, very questionable.

  • Shades are a form of mutant, touched by the magic of the Veil, which transforms them physically into what many people consider monsters. Shades may have grey skin, or solid black eyes, bone spurs or even bodies that are slowly turning incorporeal. There is very little research into them, but it’s said they have strange powers of their own. Most Shades do their best to pass anonymously in society.

  • Whilst widespread magic died out long ago, some people in the world still have traces of ancestral powers, which some refer to as ‘Small Magic’. This could be anything from a cosmetic quirk to the ability to fix small tears in fabric with touch, but Small Magic isn’t usually very powerful.

  • Mythical, celestial beings once thought to have wings. Documentation suggests Valkyries walked the earth up to as recently as 200 years ago, but none have been seen on public record in recent times.

 

ECHOR CITY DISTRICTS

  • The Twin River district is a formally rough area that is coming up as a hip place to be based on the community there. Home to a number of independent businesses, including Night Shift coffee shop. It sits in the crook between the Easton and Avalon rivers that are its namesake.

  • Echor’s University district, with campuses for both Avalon and ECU, packed with student housing, colleges, libraries and businesses that provide to the student body. Also home to Saffron Square – a well used protest spot – and the Corporate Beast, an art piece that has become an anti-capitalist monument.

  • A rough, crime-addled district packed with cheap, high-rise apartments, seedy bars and nightclubs. Considered Echor’s party district, and home to the Neon Strip, a main street where the neon lights glow 24 hours, 365 days a year.

  • Echor’s biggest business district, housing hundreds of offices, as well as many of the news outlets. Part of South Point is taken up by Augurtown, several blocks of Augur Corporation headquarters for their various divisions.

  • A small district in the heart of the city, Red Fern Plaza houses most of Echor’s municipal buildings including city hall and the courthouse.

  • A wealthy middle class residential district north of Augurtown in South Point, home to many of Augur’s employees, and many beautiful river view apartments. Also the location of Mercy Hospital.

  • A mix of residential and commercial, one end of Downtown is a destination for high end fashion and the other is considered very seedy.

  • Home to the city’s public docks, as well as San Marino Stadium, and to the south, the long abandoned Waste Water Treatment Plant.

  • A residential district in North Echor, bordering the lake. Lake view homes in Waterside sell for millions of dollars, and many have private docks.

  • A district in North Echor packed with parks and green spaces. The interstate runs between Evergreen and Waterside, and leads to Augur Power Station.

  • The heart of Echor’s thriving flea market scene, as well as several museums and a lot of warehouses. Bordering with Caelum, Silk Meadows is home to Augur Village, a residential project where employee homes and facilities are built among Augur’s many warehouses.

  • An extremely affluent part of the city, Upper Caelum is packed with expensive houses and private members clubs, whilst Lower Caelum is home to many restaurants and shops.

  • A large and leafy residential district with many desirable suburbs and good schools, set on several hills.

  • Home to Echor’s entertainment scene, packed full of gambling halls and bars, Starcrest is best known for its huge casino.

  • An attractive lake view district in South Echor, home to the Toluca Mall, as well as several huge private mansions along the water.

  • Museums and theatres make up Avalon, as well as the main campus of Avalon University.