Steel Heart
The City of Steel Heart is the largest city in Asphodus. Nobody really knows who founded the city; it was mostly run with a close community. In the past, even though the city is massive, the need for law enforcement inside was usually very little. Though the city didn't keep a very large presence of guards inside, they were very nit picky on who they let in, and had a powerful presence on the outer wall that protected all of the citizens within the city borders.
Not in recent history, though. As of now, all of the guards have been "relieved of duty" and replaced by heavy numbers of Atlas' minions in an effort to control commerce in the region. Due to this change, rebellion within the city walls has increased exponentially. Nowadays, the city is a mess of silent streets filled with empty vendor stalls, wagons and crosswalks. It has desolate concrete buildings, anti-Atlas graffiti all over their outer walls, and patrolling goons at every corner. Not many people go outside of their homes often anymore, and it seems the very wall that used to protect them has become their prison.
The city itself is mainly composed of dark streets populated by patrolling goons, empty street vendor stalls and merchant equipment like wagons, dimly lit by streetlights that haven't been changed in a while. The buildings’ windows are barred or boarded due to crime. Anti-Atlas graffiti covers every wall that will allow it, and a general feel hangs in the air that this place was once really nice, but has been slowly tearing itself to pieces. Most of the lighting actually comes from the inside of the buildings, through red tinted windows, giving an eerie red light to the streets at night.
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