The City

All races live amongst the hustle bustle of the hive city, from humans, who dominate the population, dwarves and gnomes, to the animal-like humanoid races, and even elves. The only elves that live in the city are ones that have lost their heritage, humanized.

The warforged in the city are not slaves nor servants, they are paid their own wages, however small the pittance. Thusly warforged from many a nation come seeking the Hive city as refuge from their homelands. They find it is hard to get ahead, but many do not care, and simply do what they love, crafting or working their skill. Whilst most of the black market and crime syndicate dealings happen in their territory, their concern is little more than apathy, as they are not bothered, nor bother.

Quite the opposite, it is usually the elves which strive for top political positions, and it is humans that are over-shadowed by their long-eared brothers. Each cell-block district has a flavor defined by the controlling chancellor and minister. Chancellors are obviously a religious balance in the political system, and each church is always trying to get their chancellor in a place of power. There are well over a hundred districts, and often the ones residing on the outside of the hive collapse and new ones are rebuilt, controlled by the next politica-power-thirsty elf. Above all chancellors and ministers is the mysterious General. No mere citizen will have ever even seen the General.

The before the hive era, the original castle was built off the side of a cliff face, so that it could access the rives that ran down a mountain, and be protected from flanking during great wars. As the Castle developed into a city, they built the great dam, and eventually the Wizard's district was built across as a separate entity, digging a moat around the walls. Now The Wizard's district acts as the Hive's greatest defense: no other city's mages can handle the level of anomaly saturation to infiltrate the Hive's east side by teleportation, so the city only needs to defend itself from the Southern Front.

Although the wizard's district is separate, it is connected by three main bridges.

Considering the strange attitude most citizens have toward wizards, most magic users have adapted to this by industrializing their powers. With industrialization comes specification, and with specification comes a weakness: versatility. Among the thousands of mages, few can do more than teleport and make food, and this is where someone who has a thirst for the power of real magic stands out.