Aethelgard is a sprawling urban landscape dominated by massive stone monoliths and high magic. As the heart of the realm, it fuses Renaissance elegance with cold, imposing bureaucracy. Traders, scholars, and mercenaries flock here for the promise of safety and opportunity. However, beneath the polished stone and constant guard patrols lies a curated underbelly of crime used by the government to manage the desperate. It is a place where absolute order and calculated lawlessness coexist in delicate balance.