The Industrial Quarters

Overall Look and Theme
The Industrial Quarters are in actuality a recent renaming of the old Residential and Academic Quarters, which acted as the old cultural hearth of the city. Filled with winding streets, slums, farms and markets, this is where the majority of life goes on within Sedaire. It’s also one of the oldest parts of the colony and thus has the greatest amounts of secrets amidst its many old buildings, catacombs and sewers, while the many large houses and occasional tower conceal many an alleyway which can hold deadly secrets within.

Like much of the city, the vertical progression of the industrial quarters is most apparent in its many levels and arrangements, with the lowest section being the Commons / Worker’s District down in the south and the Factories up north. This isn’t exactly a scenic place either, for that matter: the western half of the Industrial Quarters are a dark, sooty place with lots of dirt, dust and smoke everywhere. The sky is overcast from the smoke belched out by the many factories, making the sun’s appearance rare for the most part. The only remotely clear area is really in the farms; but even there the smoke tends to create twilight-like conditions that can make things difficult for the farmers to grow.

The entire thematic appearance is going to be largely Victorianesque; with places of squalor amidst it all. Here are a few images that help to convey the overall feeling:







Sub Zones
The Commons and Worker's District

The Factories

The Farms

The Mines