Editing Mood and Themes (section)

== Themes ==

'''Corruption''':  The city is one that runs on bribery and malfiseance.  The nobility in the city can get away with nearly anything despite the reforms done and a lot of people attempt to take the law into their own hands.

'''Crime''' - People will kill for coin in Winterweir and there's a lot of coin to be had by the right people.  The underground industries of gladiator fighting, drug peddling (especially Soyomas), slavery work alongside the legal vice industries still controlled by crime.

'''Intrigue''':  A lot of blackmail, bribery, and murder is going on related to the monarch's current appointment and her progressive attitudes towards the non-humans/hardline approach to foreign nations.  Cloak and Dagger adventures are very appropriate.

'''Racism''':  Xenophobia between the various species is tremendous in certain quarters.  While our heroes are part of the more cosmopolitan sections.  There's a few hate groups that deeply desire to drive out the unlike.

The most discriminated against are Lilin and Trow.

'''Sleeping Evils''':  Just because there's no Great Old Ones under Alfein doesn't mean there's not Demons, Fallen Celestials, Mutants, Hordes of Wererats, and God knows what else in the Caverns beneath Winterweir.  There's some genuinely EVIL EVIL out there and it thrives on the petty evils rather than world dominating plots.

As I mentioned, when children in Winterweir go missing, it's not exactly a joke to blame the Boogeyman or Fae.