Cities

The apex of, what remains, of civilization. Cities of Everwealth and beyond though nothing compared to what was lost to the Great Schism are still without question among the most priveleged places for one to live at the time, so long as they can afford the steep cost of living. Where most townships have little work to sustain their many denizens' hungry mouths to feed, or are entirely absent of schools to teach their children crucial skills like how to count and to spell, cities are abundant with not only these, but hospitals, trained soldiers to protect them, or well-stocked markets to tally but few of the amenities most-everyone else living outside city-limits could only dream of; That is if they go without taking a costly several days journey from their homes over miles of mostly unguarded roads where encountering cutthroats, wild animals and the like is all but certain. Yet even if you should find yourself, comparably, lucky enough to experience city life, taking shelter in new homes built from old factories, it helps not to attract too much attention. Albeit safer than the outside world, much the same in the city as everywhere else at the end of the day;