Store City
Government
The Wyndham Association is only tangentially related to The Coalition , even though it hosts the senate hall of Bourne. The guild master, Charlie Wyndham, rules fairly, but his word is law. He has a round table of lesser guild representatives that make most of the laws and handle the minutiae of running the city.
Defences
Store City employs mindless sentries known as The Staff to guard their borders and patrol their streets. The Staff were once aggressive denizens of The Store but have been relocated and repurposed for the benefit of The Wyndham Association. Nobody is quite sure how the monsters were controlled, but they are perfect as a defense force. They don't sleep or eat, and they follow orders without question.
Industry & Trade
Store City doesn't just have industry and trade: it is the central hub of industry and trade in Bourne. The guild has sole access to The Store and all the benefits that come with access to the unlimited resources within.
History
Store City is built atop the ruins of an ancient pre-apocalypse city, the name of which was lost to time. It started as a mythical location known as The Endless Store, but then Élise Carter found a way to traverse The Store without any time-travel shenanigans getting in the way. Soon after, it became a hotly contested locale with shanty-towns built up all around it and skyrocketing crime rates dousing the streets in blood and carnage. Then Charlie Wyndham arrived. Through methods unknown, he controlled The Staff and forced the city to cooperate and band together. He then orchestrated a restructuring around The Store that eventually led to the booming metropolis it is today.
Architecture
Towering skyscrapers with interconnecting bridges span the entire city. It's essentially one city-sized shopping mall but opulent to the extreme. Each skyscraper is a piece of art unto itself: some spire-tipped, some rounded, some twisting like a screw all the way up. There's even a tentacle-shaped one for the adult toy store.
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