Shadows of the Tower—Urban Shadows Toronto

The City

An Overview

Toronto as it exists today was created by amalgamation in 1998. At this time, the downtown core combined with its surrounding cities to become the current city. In essence, Toronto's urban centre got combined with its suburbs into a single city. This has resulted in a tension within the city that exceeds normal neighbourhood conflicts of interest. Suburban home owners who commute into the downtown core have very different priorities than those who reside in the downtown core, and even within the suburbs there is division between those who think of themselves as citizens of a world class city and those who would prefer to live in a suburb where they work and live with only occasional forays into the actual city. Former Mayor Rob Ford exemplified the problems of the amalgamation—not just in his unfortunate behaviour being rewarded as opposed to punished until the very end, but in the way he expressed actual frustrations of the outlying regions of Toronto that others ignored.

The rest of Ontario, and Canada, hates Toronto. It is the thrumming heart of the Canadian economy and won't let anyone else forget it. You'll hear endless about it being a world class city from its politicians, business leaders, and provincial politicians looking for a boost. You'll hear far less about the many embarrassments such as the state of its transit city (the TTC, Toronto Transit Commission). It is underfunded, overburdened, and not able to take care of the capacity required. Likewise issues of police corruption (for instance around how organized crime is handled) go unremarked upon, as will the naked transfer of public money to private developers.

Random Points of Interests

Luminous Veil

The Prince Edward Viaduct, a stretch of Bloor Street / the Danforth that goes over Bayview Avenue and the Don Valley Parkway, was at one time a popular suicide spot. As a result the Luminous Veil got built to prevent access to jumpers. It was also supposed to have a light display as part of it (hence the display), but budget constraints prevented that until July of 2015 when it got lit up as part of the PanAm Games.

It is also what connects Bloor Street to the Danforth—both of which are major East-West connections (a subway runs along them). The Danforth is an area full of Greek restaurants and where a number of Greek communities are. Some of the street signs in the area have Greek letters on them along with the Roman alphabet.

Trinity Square

NPCs

Mortality

Nana

Most important person in Luke's territory.

Easy Higgins

Presumed dead hunter.

Floxxy Red

Easy Higgin's daughter / local singer.

SSGT YU Charles

A guy in the 32 Canadian Brigade Group, Combat Engineers Regiment, who can get stuff for his friends.

Night

Dale Hackeysack

One of Damon's ghouls, official owner of the Hackeysack Comedy Club.

Rig

Knows about Luke, part of unofficial crew.

D

Knows about Luke, part of unofficial crew.

Illi

Knows about Luke, part of unofficial crew.

Ylva

Werewolf.

Power

Evgeny

Russian with eyes on Luke's territory.

The Brisboises

Vivian's parents. Her mother was "taken" by magic. Her father's health is failing after a lifetime of manual labour.

Malachi Stormcrow

New wizard in town, out to rule the roost. Has groupies.

Wild

The Twisted Man

Responsible for making Damon as he is.

Wild Cat

One of Lachlan's human friends, who has spent a lot of time in the court.

Mr. Emmerich

Owner of Singer's Stop, who quietly lets on about Vivian's abilities to a Night / Wild clientele.

Tetch

A demon who hates earth and is eager for new management to fix the place up.

PCs

Summary Tables

Stats

Name	Archetype	Blood	Heart	Mind	Spirit	Harm	Corruption
Jacob Chen	The Veteran	-1	1	2	1	0	3
Vivian Brisbois	The Wizard	1	-1	1	1	0	0
Lachlan	The Fae	0	1	0	1	0	0
Damon "The Fool"	The Vamp	2	1	1	-1	0	4
Luke	The Wolf	2	-1	0	1	1	2
Miss Black	A Hunter	3	0	1	-1	0	0

Factions

Mark factions with bold gold

Name	Faction	Mortality	Night	Power	Wild
Jacob Chen	Mortality	1	1	0	0
Vivian Brisbois	Power	1	0	1	0
Lachlan	Wild	1	-1	1	1
Damon "The Fool"	Night	2	1	-1	0
Luke	Night	0	2	-1	1
Miss Black	Mortality	1	1	1	-1

Debts

Column owes Row the number in the cell. This is for PC by PC, but sufficiently entangled NPCs may be added later.

	Jake	Vivian	Lachlan	Damon	Luke	Miss Black
Jake	N/A	2				2
Vivian		N/A				1
Lachlan			N/A		1
Damon	1		1	N/A	2
Luke					N/A	1
Miss Black		1	2		1	N/A