Shen Yun

Shen Yun, City of the Divine Cloud, located centrally in the Northern Province.

Background
A mountain-turned impenetrable fortress. Built into the rocky mountainside, sprawling out across the range, plateaus and ridges connected by stone bridges and stairs, the buildings hewn from the same gray rock as the mountain itself.

The base of the mountain is reserved for farming and animal husbandry. The lower city is populated by the commoner rabble while the factory district above it houses workshops for craftsman and laborers to ply their trade. Streets and avenues spill out from the Cloud-Stepping Stairway, the city expanding wherever it can with no order or reason. The colors are muted everywhere, fog permeating the air, the landscape drab and shabby.

Ascending to the peaks affords a different view from the disorderly lower levels. The eleven ancillary peaks are each topped with a twenty-seven-story pagoda, large enough to accommodate ten-thousand inhabitants. At the top of the Cloud-Stepping Stairway stands the Magistrate's Palace, a grand estate overlooking the entire city.

The city acts as a trading hub thanks its defensible and central location. Despite the city's best efforts, the food for a majority of the populous is still imported or hunted. Passageway from the Northern Bridge towards the Society runs through the Imperial Gorge. undefined

The Magistrate of the city is from the Situ Clan, Situ Jia Ying.