Lumencia

A rust-belt city where SLAY takes place.

Neighborhoods

Baron Ridge

The wealthiest neighborhood in Lumencia. This is where industrialists built their mansions at the turn of the 19th century, and the trend hasn't slowed. A mix of historic manors and avant-garde mansions, Baron Ridge is the place to be if you want people to know how wealthy you are.

Residents of note

• Kellius Droman, who lives in the mansion built in 1860 by Arnie Cranwedge, a 19th century steel tycoon and noted occultist.

Collina Grove

Description: C-Grove had once housed many of the workers who’d kept Lumencia’s canneries, auto plants, and tank assembly lines going. The ‘hood was packed with ratty old apartment buildings and even a few free-standing houses, most of which are a good eighty years old.

Factory District

The site of Lumencia's WWII-era glory. Factories here built tanks, primarily. Canneries were another significant industry. All are gone now, leaving crumbling factory buildings in their wake,

Kendrick Heights

A high-crime area of working-class people, including many who live below the poverty line. Kendrick Heights borders the Luminara River.

Some of Lumencia's famous prohibition gangsters, such as Luco "Gasbag" Deluca, Donny "Sizzlechest" Franchetti hail from Kendrick Heights. Prohibition flourished there because of the long shoreline of the Luminaria River made it easy to bring in distilling supplies and to ship out finished booze.

Hilltop

Home of the Hilltop Projects low-income housing.

Riverside East

The tech district of Lumencia, Riverside East is an old warehouse district converted to multi-use buildings that house companies and tech workers alike.

Riverside West

One of the more affluent areas of Lumencia, Riverside West features expensive residential high-rises, the best restaurants, and upper-class nightlife spots. If someone makes it big in Riverside East, they move to Riverside West.

Stadium District

Where Frau Munda Stadium is located (the locals insist on calling it "Leopard Stadium," but you can't escape that Frau Munda branding).

Theater Center

Lumencia's growing arts district. Before the race riots of the 60s and the economic crash of the 70s, the Theater Center was home to one of America's performing arts hotspots. People from all over the world came to perform blues, jazz, and more. It was a top-five live theater destination, smaller than but comparable to New York, Los Angeles, and Detroit.

When the race riots hit, Theater Center largely shut down. The economic crash of the 70s finished the job; theaters and performance centers were shuttered tight and abandoned. Because the area was so beset with crime, poverty, and urban blight, those buildings escaped the redevelopment of the 1980s, because the land around them held no value, and no one would travel to that area.

In the 2000s, however, Theater Center was surrounded by the gentrification and rebuilding of Riverside East and other burgeoning areas. Developers bought and re-vitalized the theaters, which had sat largely untouched for decades. The area is still recovering, but now Lumencia citizens can attend touring off-Broadway shows.

Tollingwood

The home neighborhood of Billy Middleton. It's very run-down and full of low-income housing. Commonly referred to as "T-Wood."

The Marsh

A large wetlands area similar to the New Jersey Meadowlands. Bad things go down in the Marsh.