Shrouded Charlotte
City: Charlotte, North Carolina
Population: 4,000/24,000
Controls: Charlotte and outskirts
Government: Machine
Problem: Monsters
Heroic Opportunity: Mercenary Work
City Aspect: Secretive
When people think of the Serpentfall, they have this image of a two hundred wave of water crashing its way across the east coast of North America, obliterating everything. Which is what in fact happened, in a lot of places. Alas, a lot of other places died more painfully. Like, for example, Charlotte, North Carolina: it was sufficiently above the crest of the tsunami to avoid immediate drowning, but the combination of refugees, lack of food, horrible sanitation, and the first outbreaks of monsters proved fertile ground for typhus, and a horrible local version of influenza. The entire region is still considered to be a dangerous plague zone, which keeps a lot of people away.