Alderhaven: Neral Basin

Alderhaven is an old magitech metropolis built in layers. Modern towers, transit lines, civic institutions, universities, docks, and dense neighborhoods stand over abandoned foundations, obsolete infrastructure, sealed workings, and districts repeatedly rebuilt as the city expanded around them. Its prosperity depends on a vast network of Aetheric reservoirs, anchors, relays, waterways, industry, and public systems—most of them older and less reliable than residents like to admit. Now the cracks are becoming harder to ignore. Infrastructure failures expose forgotten spaces. Research pushes against magical regulation. Housing and labor disputes strain institutions. Reclamation crews keep finding things beneath districts that were supposedly mapped generations ago, while the wetlands, preserves, ruins, and outer harbor still carry traces of earlier versions of the city. There is no single apocalypse waiting to happen and no chosen hero destined to save Alderhaven. There is simply an enormous living city full of people, institutions, unfinished history, dangerous old systems, competing interests, and places nobody has had a reason to look at in years. Take work. Follow rumors. Explore what the city buried. Decide who benefits when something forgotten is brought back into the light. v0 needs feedback