[There's something missing from the map, and that's the official delineations. Alucard reaches for the charcol, and on the map he adds in the city's wards and numbers each in turn. The ward, it seems, dictates how many grain piles there are that have real meaning. Smaller wards have one, the biggest have 3 to 5, depending.]
Much like the government of the country, the cities run on checks and balances. Yes, there are even more churches that have no meaning in the wards, but the ratios do equal out.
[But there's a grander point here.]
The concentration is not an accident, but it isn't for the reason that you think. When all the night things began to pass here, the things of this land made it clear that their territory would not be encroached upon. As such, anything from beyond must cluster in the city, or be destroyed. Those treaties were in place even before my father arrived. Why else would that man live in a city?
[The question is rhetorical.]
New York and Los Angeles have more mages. The country's capital has the most secret societies and conspiracies, as is fitting. Chicago is where everything mixes the most freely. The northwest is for werecreatures, New Orleans is for vampires. Almost every region has a speciality, save the states between New York and Canada. The witch trials cast too long a shadow, and the so-called vampire panic ensured that no one would go into the territory. [Then quickly, to clarify:] No one in the area comprehended what tuberculois was.
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[There's something missing from the map, and that's the official delineations. Alucard reaches for the charcol, and on the map he adds in the city's wards and numbers each in turn. The ward, it seems, dictates how many grain piles there are that have real meaning. Smaller wards have one, the biggest have 3 to 5, depending.]
Much like the government of the country, the cities run on checks and balances. Yes, there are even more churches that have no meaning in the wards, but the ratios do equal out.
[But there's a grander point here.]
The concentration is not an accident, but it isn't for the reason that you think. When all the night things began to pass here, the things of this land made it clear that their territory would not be encroached upon. As such, anything from beyond must cluster in the city, or be destroyed. Those treaties were in place even before my father arrived. Why else would that man live in a city?
[The question is rhetorical.]
New York and Los Angeles have more mages. The country's capital has the most secret societies and conspiracies, as is fitting. Chicago is where everything mixes the most freely. The northwest is for werecreatures, New Orleans is for vampires. Almost every region has a speciality, save the states between New York and Canada. The witch trials cast too long a shadow, and the so-called vampire panic ensured that no one would go into the territory. [Then quickly, to clarify:] No one in the area comprehended what tuberculois was.