Glavnyi universalnyy magazin (GUM) is the site of the former State Department Store. The most famous GUM is the large store facing the Red Square – itself traditionally a mall of Moscow. Originally, and today again, the building functions as a shopping mall. It contains over 100 different stores, along Read more
The Radiance Hotel & Suites is simply called “Radiance” by the guests and staff. The hotel is located at 41 Krasnogvardeysky street (41 Kras for short), across the street from Krasnaya Park, one of the only original green spaces that were preserved as Moscow’s famous 100-building skyline populated these past Read more
An abandoned church, close to one of the main arteries into the Undercity, in a vastly poor area of the outskirts. Following the Ascendancy’s scouring of experimental creatures from the tunnels, floods of displaced refugees ended up in its halls, gathered there by Ezekiel. Though it is now safe to Read more
Algeria – Legion Aligned, African Union member Current home to the Legion, who has based its headquarters and training grounds in the ghost-city of Sidi Bel Abbès. Algeria has been in a steady economic decline over the past twenty years, thanks to collapses of the global market. The sale of Read more
Red Star Combat Sports Club is known by the members as Red Star. It caters primarily to the martial arts training communities. It’s high end, high quality, and members only. Visitors can ‘try’ the facility on a trial basis, but really, the owners will seek to vet and approve you Read more
Permanent Location: Moscow, south of the Red Light District near the river. The Carnival set up a permanent location when Dominick Vas started showing signs of the sickness. His sister Roza also displayed the sickness around the same time. Both children got better, but by then they had already erected Read more
The Garden is the codename for a 100 acre CCD military compound located approximately 65 miles northeast of Moscow proper. It is part research base, training facility, weapons development and an active-duty base of operations for the Rods of Dominion commanded by Michael Vellas. The Garden boasts permanent and semi-permanent Read more
A layer of the world known by various names, including Tel’aran’rhiod, the Unseen World, the Wolf Dream, and the Spirit World. It is essentially a parallel world where all possibilities of the Wheel of Time connect, and as such it is linked to the myriad worlds that exist within the Read more
Situated at the crest of a skyscraper, the Apex Lounge boasted unrivalled views of the city spread out like a great blanket beyond each of its floor-to-ceiling reinforced glass walls. In the arms of evening the buildings far below sparkled like a kingdom of fallen stars. Zhenya, The Height of Read more
It was late by the time she discovered the club. Stairs led down and down and down, funnelling the beat of the music up like a siren call. Industrial pipes ran overhead and the air was thick with human heat and cigarette smoke. Cold concrete walls drifted beneath her fingertips. Read more