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

when you've come crashing to me


Posted on January 22, 2015 by Elenore Dorian
South
all this devotion was rushing over me, and the crashes are heaven, for a sinner like me, but the arms of the ocean deliver me.


The park had, in idea, had offered me some semblance of the wilderness I had grown up with, if only in name. Longing for a sort of freedom that was unattainable in the streets of a city, a fact that had driven me towards Hyde Park and the southern side of Sacrosanct. My time in the park had nearly satisfied my desire for a kind of personal liberty, though I had yet to feel satisfied with the results of my second mission. My second mission rested in the film fed through the Polaroid camera that remained unused until the rustlings had emanated from the perimeter of the park, and the wolf had caught my attention. Before living in the United States, I would never have imagined that my idea of a predator would exist on four legs and be vaguely reminiscent of a member of the canine family. Africa taught me that dogs were typically mongrels, waiting for your last morsel of food to be wiped off of a table and perhaps flung to a location prime for their consumption. Never was I taught that a dog was a creature to be regarded with awe and curiosity, revering the animal for its beauty. But this? Watching the tender, though absolute, way with which the wolf some yards away tended to his or her dinner, I could not help the momentous pause that halted my limbs in order to allow the moment to be frozen onto the reel of film lying dormant in my camera.

The picture was breathtaking, if only because of the subject and their setting. The snow fell onto the creature's pelt, most likely melting very quickly there. And as I passed, I could have sworn that the wolf was preoccupied with dinner, my all too humanly flawed senses missing that the wolf had known I was there all along. It was with a foolish misinterpretation that I believed the wolf would not take note of my presence, and as I passed, I would offer her the briefest of glances where my eyes would be filled with not only curiosity, but a layer of respect glossing over their deep azure. The vibration of another's vocalization filled the insecurity that had taken up as my resident emotion, alerting me that she had noted my existence all along. There was little to misunderstand about those words, though one might have guessed I had not understood a single one of them as I turned, my eyebrows knitting together. No one had ever offered their commentary to me mentally before, and the effects were ... resounding.

Clearly, there were no words I had to offer mentally, though had there been another human in my immediate vicinity they would have instantly understood my confusion and apologetic frown. I lowered my gaze from the wolf and anchored it upon my camera as if it had become something wretched in a very quick period of time.

"I'm ... I didn't think of it like that." I started to say in an attempt to explain my behavior to the wolf, lest she understand words as simply as she had my previous plea. "You were too beautiful to walk away from without some documentation. I'm sorry... I can get rid of the photograph."

elenore arabia dorian


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