From neutral markets to faction strongholds, every location in Elarion holds strategic importance — and a story of survival.
The beating heart of Elarion's underground economy. A sprawling bazaar housed in a repurposed mega-mall, the Night Market is the only true neutral ground in the city. Every faction does business here under an enforced truce. You can buy anything from scavenged tech to Aether crystals to forbidden knowledge — if you know who to ask.
Ironheart's main industrial complex — a massive foundry built inside a frozen convention center. The contrast of extreme external cold and internal forge-heat creates a perpetual steam cloud around the building. Here, Ironheart crafts their signature mechanical augmentations and weapons.
A network of platforms and walkways built in the upper reaches of the mutated mega-trees that dominate the Verdant Sprawl. The Canopy serves as Wildborn's capital — a city in the trees, invisible from ground level and nearly impossible to attack.
A partially submerged warehouse district that Silvertongue has converted into their primary base of operations. Using salvaged boats and improvised docks, they've created a floating city within the flooded streets. The Undertow is also Elarion's only functioning port.
Officially, it doesn't exist. Unofficially, the Veil Academy is where new Veilwalkers learn to channel raw Aether. Located in a pocket dimension accessible only through specific ritual gates, the Academy exists between climate zones — in the spaces between reality.
Deep within the volcanic fissures of the Scar, the Flesh Pit serves as the Fleshbound's primary laboratory and mutation chamber. The extreme heat and proximity to raw Aether veins make it ideal for their terrible experiments. Few who enter uninvited ever leave.
These locations are fought over constantly, changing hands as factions vie for strategic advantage.
The only safe crossing between the Frost Quarter and the Median. Constantly fought over.
A massive natural Aether deposit in neutral territory. Every faction wants it.
The ruins of Elarion's former government. Symbolic power draws constant conflict.
A still-functional radio tower. Controlling it means controlling communications.
Some areas of Elarion are too dangerous or too strange for any faction to claim. These lost zones remain unexplored, their secrets untouched since the Aetherfall.
Once Elarion's intellectual heart. Now overrun with Aether anomalies too dangerous to explore.
Subway tunnels that descend far deeper than any map shows. Expeditions rarely return.
The exact impact point of the Aetherfall. Reality itself is said to be broken here.