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 January 12, 2015 by KINGSLAY
South
KINGSLAY

They should feel him coming.

Their flesh should raise and prickle along the ridges of their spines and the backs of their necks. There should be chills that roll beneath the flesh and above the muscle, like earthworms that burrow through dirt. They should know. They should feel his breath hot on their skin when the darkness settles like dust. They are animals, after all â€" like him, full of instincts that devour them, make them run like well-oiled machines.

They are animals, and animals always know.

But his arrival goes mostly unnoticed. It won't stay that way for long. It never does. Perhaps they won't see at first, but one by one they'll begin to disappear. One by one they'll fade from each other's peripherals. Sometimes there are broadcasts. Sometimes they'll speak amongst themselves with fires and the glint of steel (of pitchforks) that shine in the dark galaxies of their eyes, and they'll tell each other to be careful, to watch for things like him.

They never catch him though.

He is as much a shadow as the shadows themselves. He has existed in the hollows of the earth. He has existed in holes, and cracks, and crevices. He thinks like an animal, because he is one, because he is more instinct and lust than being.

They are too human.
They are too wide-eyed and fearful to understand why his eyes are glass and his soul is emptied out.

Once he was wide-eyed, too, left quaking on the shore of a river that ran red with her blood. He drank in the carnage, red as wine, and it stained him all the way down â€" past his lips and tongue, past the flesh into the bone, it replaced the marrow with the gore. What choice did he have but this? What choice did he have but to replace the fondness that a child has for it's mother with the fondness of her blood warm on his skin?

And when that runs dry, anything else.

It is a natural evolution; he is made of magic and carnage, of blood and gore. He is made of death, and the shrieks of witches, of shadows and entrails and slaughter. Why does he take life? He steals it from others because his was stolen once, too â€" because when he was wide-eyed and quaking, he was left along the river that ran red with her blood.


And so, he made the Gods themselves bend at the knee.

KINGSLAY BY NEVAEH | HTML BY MAAT | IMAGE (C) ILYA KISARADOV

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