The Tides
Historical Overview
Once the coastal cities of Revere and Everett, the area now known as The Tides was shaped by centuries of maritime trade, shipbuilding, and heavy industry. Over time, rising sea levels, unchecked industrial expansion, and economic decline transformed the region into a landscape of flooded streets, rusted docks, and abandoned neighborhoods. What was once a thriving waterfront became a place of contaminated water, collapsing infrastructure, and forgotten history.
However, long before the first settlers arrived, before the city had a name, something ancient was buried beneath these shores. A lost city, swallowed by time and the tides, its ruins buried beneath the industrial sprawl.
The Tides – The Drowning Industrial Zone
The Tides is one of Neo-Boston’s most dangerous and unstable districts, a vast, flooded expanse of crumbling infrastructure, toxic waterways, and decayed industrial ruins. It is a district defined by neglect and exploitation, its coastal borders constantly eroding, with half-submerged buildings and flooded streets standing as monuments to corporate greed and environmental collapse.
- To the north, the Quarantine Zone marks a deadly boundary, where the remains of Aurorium disasters, experimental cybernetic failures, and lost corporate projects fester in containment. Few enter, and fewer return.
- The central region of The Tides is a chaotic wasteland of industrial wreckage, filled with scavengers, rogue machines, and forgotten factories. Here, the sea and the land battle endlessly, swallowing structures that once stood as testaments to corporate power.
- The south is more stable, where the Foundry dominates the skyline and NovaGen Energy maintains a tight grip on industry and power production.
Beneath the surface, something else lingers. Some say that when the waters rose, they revealed more than they buried. In the deepest ruins, where the Mist fails, echoes of a lost civilization stir.
Behind the Mist
In most of Neo-Boston, the Mist ensures the supernatural remains unseen, but in The Tides, the Mist is damaged, weakened by the weight of industry and the restless presence of something older than the city itself.
The Sunken City, a remnant of an ancient civilization, exists beneath the tides and below the ruins of the district. But it is not just an archaeological wonder—it is a place where time and reality blur, where the Mist does not function as it should.
- The Past Breaks Through – Those who venture deep into the flooded ruins speak of structures appearing where none should be, of doorways leading to places lost to history, and of echoes of voices speaking in dead tongues.
- Unstable Reality – Orichalcum-infused relics are resistant to the Mist, meaning things hidden elsewhere remain visible here. Time itself seems distorted, as though the city beneath the waters is not entirely dead.
- The Price of Discovery – NovaGen’s excavations have gone too deep, and their experiments with Orichalcum threaten to disrupt the already fragile balance of The Tides. The deeper they dig, the more they risk awakening something that does not want to stay buried.
Those who seek power here may not find what they expect—but something will find them.
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