The Cut is a broad political and commercial region built around an immense drainage trench that became a canal, road, and rail corridor. Farmland presses against dense commuter towns, while licensed magic flows through offices, workshops, schools, and markets. Every district feels prosperous, crowded, and slightly provisional. The region’s central mystery is also its oldest civic fact: three different founders are remembered as legitimate, and all three dynasties still collect rent from the same thriving urban core.