The western part of the city is often home to the poorer residents. Here there is a grunginess that permeates the town from the graffiti on the once cleaned brick buildings to the broken and unmaintained architecture. Crime runs high within the western half of town, making it the home of supernatural gangs of illicit activities. Such activities are rarely reported, however, and most residents are distrustful of individual's of authorities, and often let the powerful supernatural beings sort things out amongst themselves. Be careful wandering the Western streets after the sun falls.
Black Market
Cull & Pistol
Noah's Ark
Syn
Just like any city - Sacrosanct is not without it's deep, dark underbelly. Hidden in the graffiti-ridden streets of the West, behind closed warehouse doors, lies the Black Market. Forever moving, it's nearly impossible to find without knowing someone who knows someone. Anything you desire can be brought for a hefty price within the Black Market - be it drugs, weapons, or lives.
Hidden within the dark alleyways of the Western Ward, Cull & Pistol is a dim, often smoky bar. With a small variety of bottled and craft beers, Cull & Pistol is a quaint little neighborhood joint. With its no-frills moto, the dingy bar offers little more than liquor, music from an old jukebox, and a few frequently occupied pool tables.
Bartender Raylin Chike
Resting upon the harbor, Noah's Ark (known simply as The Ark) is a sleek superyacht known both for its fight rings and recent...renovations, of sorts. Accessible from an entrance hidden in the shadows, The Ark is a veritable Were-playground that specializes in fighting tournaments for all creatures great and small. With both singles and doubles tournaments to compete in, the title of Ark Champion is hotly contested amongst the Were population. If anything illegal is going on in the city it's sure to be happening within the back rooms or behind the ring-side bar.
Note: This is a Were only establishment. All other species will be swiftly escorted out.
Home of: Nightshade
Owner Aiden Tetradore
Co-owner Tobias Cain
Bar Manager Mira Ramos
Bartender Henry Tudor
Waitress Carolina Bedford
Within the turbulent industrial district lies this club. The warehouse doesn't look like much on the outside but it provides a memorable experience from the state of the art lighting, offbeat Victorian-inspired artwork, comfortable black leather lounges, and the infamous 'black light' room. There is a wide variety of alcohol that lines the shelves of both of the magical and ordinary variety. It is a common stomping ground for the supernatural who want to let loose and dance the night away to the music that floods the establishment. Humans are most welcome if they dare.
Owner Risque Voth
Manager Darcy Blackjack
Cats Aiden Tetradore
Cats Harlequin Westward
It was debatable, perhaps, as to whether he truly understood those words his companion offered him by way of explanation as to the condition of their visitor. Her assurance that what Frost had done was more akin to 'broken' all but lost upon him. Those deeper metaphors unable to find hold within the confines off his thoughts. His mind decidedly simple in this alone. The wolf was injured. Injured is broken. Thus, she was broken. His mate's words only further confirming what he was sure he knew and yet his mind had already moved on from those queries, those golden leopard eyes fixated upon that new creature before him, hardly caring for the way he pressed into her space, testing both her limits and her patience as he trod upon that very line is position in Pack and the Ark itself so afforded him before at last leaning away- as if satisfied enough with her to lessen his attentions. That mention of her name saw one handsome, black-rimmed ear turn neatly towards her and yet that was perhaps the only acknowledgement he seemed to care to afford her for now. His actions hardly rudeness, the boys mind simply having fluttered in another direction entirely as he seemed to contemplate her all the more. The scent of her alone was different. The odour of blood permeating the ear with its salty undercurrent and yet blood was hardly something he feared, rather, that scent so had a habit of making him hungry and yet for now those instincts remained contained within himself. Tobias hardly inclined to jealousy or possessiveness when presented with female company. The lounging leopard content in his position, that warning growl from the wolf met with one of his own before his jaws parted in a wide yawn. The man allowing his animal form to shift. Replaced with that gangly, dark-haired boy.
His fathomless dark eyes lifted to those wounds on the wolf now, watching as Raven worked upon them. Why the girl did not just lick them he hardly knew. Licking solved all things. This he knew. This he was sure. His features scowling slightly before he asked after that Dark hunter whom had caused that damage, gaze flicking from the wolf to his mate and back again. Raven's words seeing his head tilt slightly as if considering those things before his lips spread into a clear and obvious grin, head lifting as if proud in that moment before nodded in assurance that he would, indeed, be tearing those Hunters apart had they already come here. His gaze returned then to the wolf all the same, meeting her gaze as she assured him they were dead. Dead. This was a word he knew. A word he understood.
"Mira.....make dead?"
He inquired suddenly, his attention captured almost equally as abruptly by his own pants, the boy fussing over that hole within them, those long fingers teasing at the frayed edges and torn fabric. That he had clearly heard her name so acknowledge for the first time. The boy seeming to have accepted her presence all the same now as she spoke again, that mention of the word 'Frost' seeming to draw a reaction from him at last. The boy veritably bristling in response to that word alone, a hiss of sorts rising within his human throat. Those dark eyes lifted from the hole in his pants to eye the wolf once more. Whether he so understood the question being asked remained to be seen, his mind so often incapable of perceiving those directed questions and yet that name alone, the source of so much of their grief seemed to draw that almost instinctive response from the boy in turn.
"Frost....is.....caballo."
That Spanish word for 'horse' so readily fell from his lips then. Tobias so often proving capable of that other language on occasion, his words shifting into something almost curiously accented though he hardly seemed aware of it, his lips parting to mutter to himself then, those nonsensical words falling from his lips for several more moments before his mind so seemed to re-arrange those thoughts. Tobias abruptly speaking again to Mira now.
"Frost.....break Bride.....all over. Bride.......cold.......not warm......too much cold.....cold that eats."
He did not know those words for 'frostbite' the very thing the stallion himself was named for and was so capable of giving, the gangly man simply attempting to explain those conditions as his own mind understood, his features frowning now with the simply struggle of attempting to convey his thoughts and force them from his lips.
"Birdie.....sick....lots of days. Frost take.......sister ....away....and make Tetra and....Tobi....mad. Then......Tetra and Frost......have fight. Bleeding and......all the bleeding....bleeding....bleeding."
He had, seemingly, become fixated on that word, repeating it over and over as his fingers traced invisible patterns upon that surface he sat upon.
"Frost.....make Tetra dead. Like....Mira make Hunters dead. Tobi waited.....for Tetra to come back.....it was long waiting.....but he did."
Whether she understood that story or not remained to be seen. His eyes at last glancing up to her now, before narrowing decidedly.
"I do not....like Frost."
madness, as you know, is like gravity: all it takes is a little push