Alberta

Alberta - The Port Town
Alberta is one of the Southernmost cities of Midgard, resting on the southeast coast on the Eastern Ocean. As far as Midgard itself goes, Alberta is a more modern city, having existed for only a short time in terms of Midgard's history, and earning its place as a bustling major port for even less time.

Since its inception, Alberta has always been a port, though in the past this was solely used to trade with the distant cities of Payon and Morroc without trekking through the dangerous forests and wide desert required to reach the two cities by land. As time went on and technology increased, however, Alberta grew to be one of the nation's largest cities, used as a shipping and trading hub between Midgard and multiple countries only discovered sometime after the city's original creation.

After the velare invasion of 599 R.E., the city's position as a major shipping hub has continued, only now under velare control. Darkened under the Veil, the city's once-easygoing nature is rarely seen in its citizens, with the remaining few mortals seldom expressing anything beyond a somber mood. Alberta also has a much more militaristic atmosphere than in the past. With the majority of the velare forces situated on the Rune Midgard continent, coastal cities are watched cautiously for any sign of attack from outside rebels, few though they may be. So too seldom seen are the city's famous sailing ships, a majority replaced by the cloudy steamships of the modern age.