South

The southern part of the city has a chic family-oriented sort of charm to it. Here, small locally owned shops run rampant, neighbors often know each other by name, and the monthly socials are an event not to be missed. In the South, children can often be seen safely playing in the park or on sidewalks and in the weekends, families often take to the beach to enjoy the warm waters surrounding the city.

What You'll Find Here

Ascension Center of Equitation
Hyde Park
Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium
The Outskirts
The University of Sacrosanct

Ascension Center of Equitation

The Ascension Center of Equitation is the epicenter of the Dark Hunter Cavalry Unit. Originally a high-class facility for show-jumping, Ascension now caters entirely to the Cavalry Unit. Here the Dark Hunters learn how to ride and fight upon the backs of horses - many of which are Were's themselves.
Home of: The Cavalry

Hyde Park

Hyde Place takes up a large part of the Southern side of the city and includes a large playground, several fountains, and a small garden. The park is open from five in the morning till midnight though many shady characters may visit this place while it's technically "closed". The park has also been a venue for several concerts and hosts many holiday-related events. Under a full moon, witches are often seen here for the sacred ground beneath the iconic Weeping Beech.

Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium

The Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium (PDZA) is an award-winning combined zoo and aquarium located within the Southern Part of Sacrosanct. Situated on 92 acres in Sacrosanct's Hyde Park, the zoo and aquarium are home to over 9,000 specimens representing 367 animal species. Point Defiance is also widely known for its conversation efforts regarding the breed and release program of Red Wolves.

The Outskirts

Beyond the city limits and over the bridge lies the deep, dark, and almost impenetrable forest. Often seen as a way to guard this magical city against the world that surrounds it, many are entirely ignorant of the evil that may creep between those tree trunks. Many were-creatures use the forest for the transformations of their newest members and some even take to hunting here. It isn't particularly peculiar for people to go missing within this forest but once you get through, the rest of the world awaits.

The University of Sacrosanct

The University of Sacrosanct offers some of the top programs in the nation with its outstanding campus and specialized faculty. The University places a high focus both upon educating future generations but also on research to help revolutionize the world. The University welcomes the talent of students across the world to enroll and unlock their unlimited potential. With applications from across the nation, classes fill up quickly.

PhD in Plant Biology Abigail Hughes

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Posted on May 30, 2017 by rian shrike
South
SHRIKE

Six months into the city and it still felt like a cage, skyscrapers rising up like bars. "It's like man-made mountains," a friend told her once from the back of a taxi, but there was nothing of her mountains in this. It smelled, in summer, like piss and trash and baking metal. The only wildlife she saw were pigeons and rats, and she always had shadows like bruises beneath her eyes.

But this was where her prey was.

Still, there were times when she needed to feel grass, not concrete, below her feet. And so she'd meticulously cleaned her guns, painstakingly shined the stocks and barrels, and lovingly put them away and walked to the train station. The ride to the south suburbs was thirty minutes on a train and twenty more on a bus, but Rian hadn't seen the sunset for three weeks. There were always too many buildings in the way. Tonight, the creatures that claimed the shadows could wait.

The bus sighed to a stop and she stepped off, the rubber sole of her trainer sure on the sidewalk that ran alongside Hyde Park. She wore no weapons, but the way she walked, the way her gaze scanned the early evening summer, suggested they would have been redundant, here. And anyway, there was no one of note: only joggers, dog-walkers, pairs of women pushing strollers with ponytails bobbing. These were not her prairies, her buttes, but until her quarry was brought down it was all she had.

Knowing this, she stretched, pulled her red hair into a ponytail, and took off at an easy lope down the packed-dirt path through the trees.

When she heard the scream, she froze like a coyote for the length of a heartbeat before sprinting toward the source.

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