So, naturally, I have four.
Grand Moingoana
(formerly Des Moine, Iowa)
The Universal Dominion would contest the above [It’ll make sense in context – ed.], if the Dominion would have ever deigned to notice the comparison at all. Obviously the only Magical City is Grand Moingoana, capital of the Dominion, and all others are mere slaves’ flatteries, children’s imitations. The rest of North America disagrees. Worse for the Dominion, the rest of North America has a point.
The capital of the Dominion is only nominally a city at all, since it has no commerce or industry. Its only purpose is to give Archmages (and the Supreme Archmage) everything that they could possibly want. Even in the last days of the War, Grand Moingoana operates as a self-contained entity, offering luxuries and diversions found nowhere else on the continent, to a steadily shrinking number of mages. Still, even the leaders at the top who know the War to be lost also know that they will not run out of resources before the enemy finally destroys them all. So why not revel until the end?
In the meantime, the mages not being offered a chance to pleasantly throw away their last days are becoming increasingly thoughtful. It is rumored throughout the city that a refugee who makes it all the way south to Grand Panama might actually find sanctuary there, assuming that he has something to buy his way in. Grand Moingoana has always had the greatest (and worst-catalogued) collection of organized magical knowledge in North America, and possibly the world. A collection of the best grimoires will be sufficient for the Grand Panamanians. A second collection of grimoires might actually provide enough bribes to let a fleeing mage get there.
