Veins

The Cooperative Frontier
A recent city, Veins was created during the rule of Empress Haman. A joint agreement between the nations of Arnafeltz and Schwarzwald, Veins was created as a frontier city located on the southern plateau of Arnafeltz. It was designed to offer housing and a typical place to live for the workers in the nations' other cooperative venture, the Thor Mining Camp housed at a massive volcano nearby.

Early on, Veins only consisted of a few houses, a medical tent, and a bar, but over the years it has grew to one of the largest cities in the nation as more and more immigrants and Arnafeltz natives alike flocked to find their riches in the rare ores and gems found within the Thor Mine.

Due to this random arrival of inhabitants, the city is haphazardly built, with houses and other buildings popping up wherever people find room. The city has no real street layout, following only natural dirt paths around the mountainside, and it is -very- easy for one to get lost within the twisty, random placement of nearly every location in the city.

It was a fairly lawless city as well, and this made it easy for the velare flooding over from Rael to overtake the city's unsuspecting inhabitants. Once controlling the city, the velare soon moved out to take command of the Thor Mountain mining operation, utilizing the abandoned camp to provide supplies and ore for their own uses. Many workers in the mine remain mortal, however, kept as slaves or servants by the velare viewing themselves above such menial labor.