Sanguineum

Sanguineum is the largest and most powerful city under control of The Crimson Court. It lies in the north-western part of Elys, and serves as a base for Vamphyr's military campaign against Balogh and Sylfia.

Environment
Most of Sanguineum is underground, with the overground parts serving only as protection from outside forces. The city is built into the cliffs at the shore by Elys's western port, so as to ensure domination over it. Underneath the ground, Sanguineum's vast halls stretch out in all directions, great stone chambers holding the earth at bay.

Inside the city, the sun is obscured, and its halls are lighted by the sorceries of its inhabitants. The dark corners and crevasses in the stonework give way to a soft, ever-present glow, complimenting the red and purple silk that covers the walls and buildings inside. Its halls lead deeper and deeper down the further into the island they go, and it is said that the great Lord Vamphyr himself makes his dwellings deep within the city's depths.

Over land, there are the walls and barracks of the city, surrounded by miles upon miles of empty country. That is not to say Sanguineum lacks influence in its surrounding area - quite the opposite, as hundreds of secret exists lead up from beneath the ground.

Inhabitants
Although Blooded Ones are the only permanent residents, Sanguineum is also host to scores of laochran mercenaries, and thralls by the thousands. For an outsider, walking through its dimly lit halls must be as a nightmare come to life, the hollow and crippled thralls ever present. As for its Blooded residents, Sanguineum is a place of plenty - something quite rare for their kind. To them, the city represents as close to a comfortable life as they could ever hope to achieve.

Although the city is enormous, it is quite scarcely inhabited. Only a few hundred make their dwellings there, and so it is mostly occupied by the slavering thralls, outnumbering every resident fifteen to one at the least. They are always seen going about their business in various states of un-being. Some are almost so lifelike as to appear mortal, yet many are so ancient that their very forms are broken and twisted by their eternal servitude, bound by unseen chains.