Editing Sorcerous Arts:Setting (section)

=The College and its Environs=

The game is set in the [[Sorcerous arts|College of Sorcerous Arts]], an elegant complex of white marble draped in ivy. Its outer defense is an immaculate stone wall, some ten feet in height; its mote, an elegantly kept and expansive botanical garden. Some six buildings compose the compound: the gatehouse (which lies above the wine cellar), the outhouse, the dormitories for the upper students, those for the more recent pupils, the greenhouse, and, of course, the main building of the college: three stories high, pentagonal, with towers of varying posture placed at each vertex. Here the refectory, lecture hall, classrooms, laboratories, and offices and apartments of the professors may be found. Within is a large courtyard. All elements are roofed in red tile, mostly clay, but a close observer would note the glint of polished copper and bronze here or there.

A craggy hill, almost a small mountain, supports the weight of the College, as well as the combined mass of too many grape vines. In nooks and crannies of similar hills lie the chateaus of White City's aristocracy. The metropolis itself lies a few miles to the west, its aspect growing progressively rougher as one travels away from the foothills and towards the docks. No fortification wall is present.

The Elector's Palace is situated in the Statue District, which is separated from the rest of the rabble by virtue of being on an island of the Raining River. The north bank is home to the sprawling Old District; if one searches the area with acuity and diligence, one may, after many hours of sifting through dilapidated tenements and vagabonds, come across the original walled town around which White City grew. On the south bank is Canal District, where the homes of artisans and traders and the offices of the merchant guilds may be found. The Port District is located where the Raining River meets the sea, and the less said of it, the better.

On a broader geographic scale, White City is the capital of the temperate and prosperous nation of Albion. Rolling hills, fertile fields, pleasant shorelines, gentle mountains, and bucolic towns describe the majority of Albion's features; stratified cities and a pompous aristocracy describe the rest.