Editing Dark Champions: New Venice (section)

==Landmarks==
The main waterway is the Grand Canal.
While New Venice is affluent, whle there are great hights there are great depths.  Nationwide, Skidmore Row is perhaps the worse of these nighborhoods.  Indeed "Skid Row" has become slang for any decripid neighborhood.  The graffi riddled stsatue of Gen. Skidmore 

Located just off the Grand Canal on Blakely Plaza, is the New Venice Museum Of Modern Art (NV-MOMA) A hideous monstrotrocity that everyone hates. It incorporates all of the worst features of modern art. It looks like it was designed by a lunatic, because it was. Some visitors even complain of nightmares. Its designer Johnson Debuque, went insane and has been a resident of the hopeless case wing of the St. Regis Asylum for the last 45 years. The truth behind it is an ugly story... 

Far more popular is the St. Blaise Cathedral. Built as a labor of love buy the orginal Italian stonemasons who settled in New Venice, it put many old world churches to shame. Its crowning touch is an exact copy of the bell tower from St Mark's Basilca in old Venice. (Interesting piece of trivia. When the orginal San Marco bell tower collapsed in old Venice, 1902 they used the New Venice tower as a reference to rebuilt the orginal from scratch. So technically, the belltower in Plaza San Marco, Venice, Italy is a copy of the one here in New Venice! True story.)

To the south is the Blake National Forest. Called a "national treasure" by enviromental groups, it is seen an eyesore by locals. It is more of swamp than a forest. Its nickname is "Blake's Hell" from a Local legend is that back in 1835 a local farmer named Obiadah Blake went hunting in the woods in this area. He went into the swamps hunting for a Panther that was killing his livestock. The story end with him being lost in the forest for weeks until he finally came to a clearing near Freetown. There he stated "My name is Obiadah Blake, and I just came from Hell!" He then died.