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Subterranea
After large parts
of New London all but burnt to the ground in the winter
of 1867, a process of salvaging and rebuilding went
on. However, when New London's citizens went about
rebuilding their city, they didn't go to the trouble
of knocking things down and starting from scratch,
rather, they left many of the burnt out shells to
sink down into the marshes and simply built the new
on top of the old. Because of this, some parts of
New London are over ten feet further above sea level
than they were in the 1800's, and beneath street level
are masses of sured-up ruins and even streets that
have been built over. These burnt-out buildings have
become the perfect havens for the city's Ghuls, and
with a little know-how even well informed mortals
can get from one side of the city to the other without
ever seeing the surface, moving through a network
of ruins, abandoned sewers and water courses. Of course,
the subterania is officially off-limits to New Londoners,
and even those that manage to avoid arrest tend to
disappear in the red-brick tunnels, uneven substreets
and the blackened, twisted ruins that still cause
risks of subsidence and collapse to the newer buildings
on the surface.
Most of these substreets exist in the Fountain district,
where the fire caused the most damage, and tunnels
dug by Ghuls connect these to the Bon Espoir cemetery
and even run all the way out to the Fountaine Estate,
where Sebastian keeps his lavish cryptorium and libraries.
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