Editing Setting:Heavy mythril (section)

==The Free Citystates==
The vast plains of Hartland, the Steel Gulf to the north, the snow-capped peaks of the Centris Mountains - formed when the Titan Centris himself died - and the vast Pancentric Coast are all claimed by the so-called Free Citystates - a collection of feudal states that are at least nominally controlled by elected officials, and have a consistent, universal non-aggression pact with each other. Of course, this does not mean that they are on friendly terms - in fact, the wording of the pact just means that wars between them cannot be fought with citizens of the Citystates. Foreign mercenaries are fair game. 

There are currently 108 Citystates, which will not be listed here for space reasons, and for the fact that half of them are tiny, podunk towns which youths spend their childhood dreaming of leaving in the dust. Wide spots on the Black Roads, nothing more. There are, of course, more than a few exceptions to this rule.

New Jack City, which some claim was the first settlement on the continent, is a city that should have died ages ago. Beneath the water level, protected by levees and by the Twin Ladies in the harbor - Liberty facing out towards newcomers, Justice standing at her back facing in - it is a miracle that no great storms have hit the city in centuries. NJC is a city whose soul is constantly in peril - there is a strong pro-Technocracy sentiment amidst the populace, particularly among the merchants, and it is one of the few cities where temples to the seducer daemons are constructed publicly.

And yet, for all the darkness, for all the soul-defiling blight that the city contains, The Song is strong there. On the great Broad Way, temples to the Song's might line every block, and in the neighborhood of the Green Witch (so named for a druid's cottage that has long since rotted away and been built over) those that embrace the Song's glory and spread it outnumber those that merely listen. 

The city strongest in The Song is actually a Technocracy by name - Detroit Rock City. Many great gods have sprung from the infertile, oil-soaked soil that surrounds the town on the Steel Gulf, from the Knights in the Song's Service to the strange cult of the Dark Carnival. While the Technocracy there is strong, it allows the souls of its inhabitants to breathe freely, and so the machinations created there, the great Thunder Chariots, are constructs that also bear a soul, not defiling creations of death and pain. Other great Citystates include the Air City of the south - little more than a massive hub for zeppelin transport, but also possessing the processing plant for the great speed potion Koce - the city of Lost Angels to the west, the dusty sprawl of Nash, and the tangle of one-way streets and cruel spires called Chi-Town.