[ Vertere Layout ]

VERTERE LAYOUT

In order to make life easier for your characters have an idea of the general “feel” of each sector (and for you to list your character’s current lodgings for reference), let’s ordered everything in this entry.


Center: It looks like a mix of Atziluth and Briah of Angel Sanctuary, pure white, high technology, fresh air, cloud whales at the sky, and a copy of the garden of Eden without the creepy Tree that grows around the Tower of Etemenaki where Adam dwells supposedly.

Places and their dwellers:

The Fountain: Located just in the middle, carved with beautiful angel sculptures and of the size of an ocean. There are places that are depth as a real ocean.
Tower of Etemenaki: AB (hatefulcreation)'s place. Located in a floating platform above the fountain, unless you are Rosiel or Alexiel (or Setsuna), you can’t break in (they are the key to enter). The Garden of Eden grows around it.
White Ministry: It’s located in front of the fountain. Resembles the Mansion Sevi owned. Raziel (besteamaker) lives there with Uriel (repentedwings), Michael (chosenoflight) drops by. There’s a Water Garden within with many fountains and a library of books written in Enochian (Zaphkiel’s office copy).

Vehicles: None. Use your wings. ;)


North: The North, with exceptions of the houses that were willed before the twisting of wishes, resembles a cosmopolitan, modern city: Skyscrapers, traffics, neon lights, cars. Think New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo. There are neighborhoods with old mansions, cultural themed areas, red zones, industries, etc. It’s a tad polluted as the big cities.

Places and their dwellers:

Fountain of the North: Like all the fountains, it’s located with the limit with the Central zone. This one is colored blue and has human sculptures adorned it. It’s a gate to Sheol and through swimming it, you can access to the Underworld that connects with the other zones. That is… if Pyramid Head, Ren or AI don’t caught you.
Museum Annex: Located several blocks at the left of the fountain (as landmark), it’s a place full of natural and fictional wanders as is taken from the sights offered to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Haydee (hrh_haydee), Henry Jekyll (doctortwoface) and Wilhelmina Murray (miss_murray) live there.
Wayne Mansion: With Batcave and Batmobile included in the “basement.” Bruce Wayne/Batman (mrbrucewayne & maskedknight), Walter (humblebutler), Shiori (kitsunekaasan) and Integral (iron_countess) are the current inhabitants. It’s located near small woods, at the right of the fountain.
Coffin Order Company office: A 80s old building with six floors. Mimiko (the_compromiser) lives there.
Bran Castle: Radu’s (cel_frumos) castle is settled after the woods, on a hill, near the barrier with the east.
Caim's House: where Caim fortheunion resides. Somewhere.
Sonozaki Estate: Shion's oniimouto home. A large, traditional Japanese home matching an imperial palace. It's surrounded by a large fence.
Tyrfin Plaza: A postmodern four-story apartment building four blocks west of the fountain. The top two floors are all one apartment. Reeve littleblackcait and Denzel sect7orphan live there.
High Rise Apartments: Alex theveil_beyond, Henry h_townshend, and Chika kawaii_chika live on the fifth floor.
Orchid Palace: An elegant five-floored Japanese castle. orchidcircle, fuuga_chou, and stoner_ninja live there.
Golden Manor: Ky's holyknightky home in the French Quarter.
Wilder Mansion: Big mansion where Zelos lives.
Brookhaven Hospital: A block down from the High Rise, where the locals can seek medical help. All healers please apply within. Short on staff.


Vehicles: Diverse from bikes to bicycles to common cars or horses. What is considered mundane like buses or trains as well.


South: Science Fiction layout with high, rotating towers of impossible geometrical shapes, little vegetation, mostly covered with steel and with plastic. The sun can be seen double as well as the moon. Other planets could appear in the sky with frequency. Robot cats and dogs are usual street dwellers. There are holograms of parks and forests all around it.

Places and their dwellers:

Fountain: Located with the limit of the center zone, the fountain of the south is yellow with android like sculptures that change of position. Just like the other fountains, it’s a secret gate to Sheol.
Moonlit Tower: Isaak Fernand von Kämpfer’s (rozenmagician) lair. A black-glassed building in front of the fountain. Inside the place, the illumination is calm and serene as if was bathed with moonlight. It has plenty supplies of wine in his exclusive cellar. And the seventh floor comes after the fourth, fifth and sixth are Isaak’s secret laboratory, located in a black hole he can access and where his pets (ravenous monsters) slumber until he calls them. Caterina (milanbutterfly) stays with him as a guest and assistant. Nuku-Nuku nk1124 also lives there.
The TARDIS: Wherever the Doctor fantasticninth wants. :D Usually by the fountain.
Homeless/Other: Dynamo dainamo is wandering the streets looking for trouble. Cait Sith littleblackcait is hiding in alleys and snooping around the Moonlit Tower.

Vehicles: Flying cars, tele-transportation, etc.


West: A place of wonder and magic! Crystal palaces, green hills, clean air and vegetation, magical fauna and flora alike (mermaids in your seas, fairies in the woods). There is not technology here, all functions with magic. But watch that there can be witches in the woods of winters or dark places even in fairytales not everyone lives happy ever after.

Places and their dwellers:

Fountain: Painted in bright green, a rainbow shines above the water and possess sculptures with fairy wings.
Cephiro Palace: A copy of a three towered crystal palace with jewels where Lantis (tragedynomore) and Hikaru (redstrength) reside.
Lake Despair: A mirror lake where people can walk over the surface or breathe underwater where Ahiru (ducklike) spends time in her duck form. But careful, you may drown in your sorrow forever if you go to the bottom.
Red Stable: Rudolph's rudyred home, where it's always snowing.
Magic House: A lovely home surrounded by rose gardens, it's where Megumi glowingrose lives.
Homeless/Other: Murakumo 8perfectsouls lives in whichever forest, plain, or cave he can find, since houses are yucky human inventions.
London Shop: A two-story shop where Galen white_scar lives.

Vehicles: White carriages pulled by pegasi or unicorns, choose your magical pet.


East: A bleak landscape taken from horror, mixing the west and east themes of it. From gothic castles, graveyards, haunted houses or eastern inns to thick forests filled with darkness. Lightening and thunders are common even if it isn’t raining.

Places and their dwellers:

Fountain: Carved in red, the fountain has sculptures of satyrs and women with horns and batwings.
Miyu’s Forest: Just with the limit with the South, there forest made of twisted, dark trees that bear crystal fruits. The sky and mist around it is red. Miyu (mytimeisfrozen) created that place.
Castlevania: The chaotic and demonic castle where Matthias Cronqvist aka Dracula (mcronvist) resides with his monsters.
Thieves Den: A house near the fountain covered with plant like. Kuronoe thiefreturned and Kurama redorsilver live there.
Undisclosed House: Somewhere in the West. Karasu's lethalcrow home.
Adandoned Home: A vacant home now occupied by Sesshomaru coldmoonlight and Yukina.
Vampire Mansion (Castle Dracula): A large, foreboding castle as far away from the barrier and fountain as possible. Protected by forests and demons. Alucard reaperoflondon and Seras timidwalker reside there.
Shinra Mansion: A large, gloomy, ramshackle mansion near the West/North barrier. Occupied by the region's Avatar, Vincent demonvalentine.

Vehicles: Dark coaches pulled by bat-winged, black stallions or monsters.


Sheol: The sights of Sheol were already explained in previous entry. The place is dominated by the rivers Styx and Lethe whose waters flow against the gates that lead to the Satans domain. Before that gate, there’s a purgatory or limbo where those who died and were too innocent remain until the rest of their days (or someone brings them to life). The sky is always red.

Place and dwellers:

Enma Ai’s House: Purgatory/Limbo of sorts. Ai (ai_enma) and her servant, Ren (watchful_hell) judge the dead to be ferry into Sheol. The house is a traditional Japanese one with endless rooms inside, a pond where Ai usually bathes and has a garden filled with red, spider lilies. Inside one of Ai’s rooms, there is an altar filled with candles with the name of the people of Vertere (minus angels, nobodies and satans). With the candle extinguished, means that person life has ended, when the flame rekindles means their life was restored.

Reply please with your character’s residence, please! The replies will be screened once the lodgings are done.