East

The east side of the city is the very heart of Sacrosanct - it's unique skyline is a clash between modern sky rises and small Victorian-inspired storefronts. In the heart of downtown, the sleek colored glass buildings reign supreme though their old-world roots can be seen in the most peculiar places from the lamp post styled electric street light to the stone sidewalks. The old world architecture slowly returns the further from downtown you travel, however. It's here that magic thrives, it hums in every stone and can be felt in every breath. Often, newcomers to the city may become overwhelmed by such sensations but, eventually, it becomes an ever-present feeling that's hardly noticed.

What You'll Find Here

City Creek Center
Dark Hunter Department
Inner Sanctum
Red on the Water
Starlight Tower

City Creek Center

The City Creek Center is an upscale open-air shopping center centered in the heart of downtown Sacrosanct. With its numerous fountains, foliage-lined walkways, and bubbling streams, City Creek Center offers three blocks of chic boutiques, delicious dining, and the newest showrooms.

Dark Hunter Department

The City of Sacrosanct's Dark Hunter Department's primary concern is the safety of all of Sacrosanct's residences. Their public safety responsibilities include code enforcement and supernatural crime prevention. The Sacrosanct Dark Hunter's Department follows the directions of the International Dark Hunter Council and serves as a local point of contact for any Dark Hunters working within the Council's ranks.

Inner Sanctum

The Inner Sanctum is an independently's owned specialty coffee company and cafe with a singular focus: quality. A hidden gem on the side streets of the busy downtown, the Inner Sanctum source's the world's finest beans and local treats. From it's delectable pastries to the exquisite latte art, the Inner Sanctum is dedicated to both its craft and the customer's experience. With beans roasted in house and every cup prepared by the best baristas, you will never be disappointed at the Inner Sanctum.

Owner Alexander Macedonia

Barista Alexis Wilde

Red on the Water

Nestled in a pleasant alcove that is but a stone's throw away from the dazzling labyrinth of downtown, Red on the Water is a spectacle in its own right. Renovated in the style of a classic Irish pub with a dash of modern flair befitting the city that boasts it, this up-and-coming venue is the perfect place to snag an impeccably prepared home-cooked meal and enjoy the city's most impressive collection of brews from Ireland and beyond. You and your guests are sure to be mesmerized and invigorated by the energetic offerings of the live Celtic band to be found here every weekend.
Home of: Elysium

Owner Isolt Marcello

Co-Owner Damon Marcello
Waitress Yumi Chizue

Starlight Tower

With one hundred floors and a 125-foot spire, the Starlight Tower rises high above the Sacrosanct skyline. More than just a landmark, the Starlight Tower offers a unique mix of restaurants, shops, and offices spaced throughout the building. Organized into nine verticle zones, each of which features a sky lobby and a light-filled garden atrium which merge the upscale interior with a faux landscaped exterior setting.

What You'll Find Here

Crash Choir Records
Pentagram
Ellington Enterprise

Ashes to ashes we all fall down ||Open||


Posted on June 14, 2014 by Anna-Marie Belrose
East
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There was just something about this city, the way it simply vibrated with magic like a plucked violin chord. It was in the soil, the air, and in the people who called it home. Anna-Marie could tell this difference, a slightly exotic taste that she couldn't quite capture as the blood of her victim flooded her mouth and slid down her throat with each gulp, giving her body that false warmth of life. It would perhaps be an odd sight to see, her mere child's form standing behind a crumpled man, teeth sunk into his neck as she fed with abandon, slivers of blood escaping to trail down the man's front where a growing stain was seeping across his chest. He had long since lost consciousness and Anna-Marie could feel his heart was already mere moments away from ceasing with each faint pulse more of an effort than the last. With a sharp inhale Anna-Marie let go of the man's shoulders and pulled away from his neck as the heart stopped, thoroughly disliking the taste blood held once a body had stopped. A sound quite between a satisfied purr and an irritated growl escaped her parted lips, the dark crimson liquid coating her mouth and smearing her lips, her tongue streaking across her lips in savor of the taste. It had been quite a while since she had been able to enjoy a hunt, the smell of fear and adrenaline a surely intoxicating thing that made the blood only sweeter, a thing which had been lacking in her old town due to the fact that she ran most of it and her meals had been brought to her.

Honestly, even the dead man at her feet could have escaped such demise if he had just given her the doll in the first place. There were some things from her mortal life that she still enjoyed and would go to great lengths in order to have; dolls were simply just one of those things. Anna had come upon the small doll shop as the man had been closing up for the night and had seen an antique doll perched in the window for display. "How much for that one?" She had asked him in which the man had given her a simper of a smile, an unknowing stupid thing of a beast seeing her as a mere child and replied, "I'm afraid that one is much too expensive for you, dear come back tomorrow with your mommy." Anna's sweet and innocent gaze had turned immediately dark, her attention away from the doll to the man in front of her as her fangs slid into view, "Might want to rethink that." Who was he to tell her she couldn't have what she wanted? What was a man doing with a doll shop anyhow...it was just wrong. See, it all could have been avoided if he had just given her the doll. Anna nudged the dead man with the point of her shiny black buckle shoe, both to check that he wasn't going anywhere and one last 'should have listened to me' gesture before stepped away from him. She plucked up the antique doll from its spot in the window, a wicked smile crossing her features as she hugged the doll to her chest with one arm, leaving everything else untouched in the shop Anna exited back out onto the streets. No sooner was she in the alleyway beside the building that a soft breeze started up, bringing with it a scent that she recognized from the last city, a sulfuric heat of a smell that usually indicated sunrise tickling her nose. Hunter. This one had been following her for quite some time, having found her in the last city she passed through before coming to Sacrosanct and for a moment Anna had been left thinking she had finally shaken him. They were persistent beasts taking no regard in what supernatural life they took, be it man, woman, or child; Anna having seen her fair share of slain witch and were children at their hands. As such Anna took great pleasure in teaching them a lesson, culling their kind whenever they decided to pester her.

That same wicked smirk toyed at the corner of her lips as she slowed her walking and kept her gaze to the ground in front of her, allowing the hunter to slink within the shadows creeping ever closer. The sound of the grinding of asphalt beneath shoes, a sharp inhale of breath, and a slight elevation in heart rate were all things that Anna had learned of the centuries meant the hunter would spring forth from the shadows in the next moment. Her strides stopped immediately, twisting on her heels in a graceful spin out of the line of the hunter's strike leaving him to whiz by and regain his footing to face her again. Anna simply raised a brow at him in curiosity, her crystal blue gaze sizing him up with a look like a child about to squash an anthill. It was only in the breadth of a moment that he had turned to her again and moved to throw the held blade at her. Anna's hand which had been resting at her side twitched and the hunter's hand which held the blade in turn tossed the blade to the side. A look of confusion and surprise crossed the hunter's face before his body was yanked forward, his knees slamming onto the hard asphalt, eyes wide and looking at the child in front of him that now held her hand in front of her, twisting her fingers about manipulating his body against his will. "Your persistence is...admirable, hunter." Her tone was silky as she spoke, smiling over her fangs which she took delight in seeing the hunter cringe at. It always bothered them to see her face, angelic in its immortal innocent beauty with the twin marks marring it. "You've strayed a far ways from your creator or they would have told you that that was a rookie move. You put yourself upwind." The hunter's gaze turned from surprise to a steel hardness as he spat out, "I've killed plenty of your kind and others." Anna scowled and stepped closer, her face near inches from his, her breath a hot whisper against his flesh, "Yes, but tonight, I will be the one to live another night." And with that Anna stepped back a fraction, her curled fingers lifting in front of the hunters face to show him how she held his very life within her hand...and yanked her fingers to the side. A sickening crunch signaled the end, the hunter slumping to the damp ground, a mist having started to roll in from the bay. As Anna-Marie began her journey again her soft melodious humming started up, singing one of her favorite nursery rhymes.

"Peter, my neeper.
Had a wife,
And he couldn't keep her,
He put her in the wall,
And let all the mice eat her."

Oh yes, this city was going to fit her just fine.

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