Editing Magipunk:Setting:Atathorn (section)

= The Glass Mills =

Not much glass is produced in the Glass Mills -- this district of the city is so named because it's controlled by the Glassmakers Alliance, not for any literal description of its industry.  A large manufacturing area towards the outskirts of the city, it's characterized by large, featureless, shoddily built wooden buildings -- generally, alternating dormitory-style housing and mills.  The smells here are of burning wood or coal, the sounds are of iron and lead being hammered, of nails being put into wood, and there's a crackling electrical feeling of magic being discharged.  The roads are broad but poorly maintained, abused as they are by heavily loaded carts bringing in raw materials to be worked by assembly lines of workers using specialized spells and old-fashioned brute force.

During the day, the Glass Mills feel oddly abandoned, despite their high population -- everyone works in the mills except for the youngest children, the oldest grandparents, and the heavily pregnant or deathly ill.  Bands of [[Magipunk:Organizations#Gold_Guards|Gold Guards]] wander through the streets and beat any itinerants or vagrants who dare to loiter in the area.

At night, the Glass Mills are a bit more lively -- though the work of the mills is demanding, the young and hardy will party -- but most of the workers go to more entertaining parts of the city to have fun.

There are other, smaller industrial sections of towns that are broadly similar to the Glass Mills -- only the insignias on the Alliance guards and Alliance buildings change.