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Writin’ Tunez!

Monster Hunter Gernerations Jurassic Frontier battle theme.for a half hour!

Let that sink in, then the keyboard’s a clickin’!

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Zàyera City (Citè du Zàyera)

Zàyera City is the largest city on North Zàyera Island. It is the most pivotal city where just about anyone is welcome whether they are an Earth-native, a Zeraithe, or an extraterrestrial from another world. There are many prominent people and locales that reside in the City of Dragons. The city primarily consists of three major neighborhoods: the North City Development, City Center/Downtown, and the South City Expansion.

The North City Development is what can be described as groups of housing projects that have since been blighted. The City has since moved to condemn these blights, but there are residents who call these dilapidated structures home. It is a prime location for felonious crime.

Still within the NCD, the medical pride of the island was first built as a complex on the highway route leading out to Èiyaure County. Over the years since the 1940s the Zàyera Medical Complex was the central point for local medical research. Gradually, the older, outdated medical center was shuttered. However, one building stands out among the derelict complex: the Zàyera Institute for Children’s Mental Health—simply, CMH.

Children’s Mental Health is not an insane asylum for mentally ill children, rather it is a research observatory. Patients are received on a temporal basis for up to 14 days as allowed by state law—for special cases, 21 days. Two most prominent people have been patients at the facility. The previous Prince Zàichad Èiyaurëc and previous Blaize fortune heir Dràzden Auèserëc have been under the observation of renown psychologist Dr. William Raymond. Dr. Raymond of British descent had come to Zàyera to study the mental capacities of Zeraithe people, particularly the children. The CMH would just be another nameless building if it had not been for the orphan scandal it has suffered.

In the 1970s, the young Dr. Raymond had a hand in taking orphans from the nearby Celestic Gardens Orphanage. Within CMH, the basement (and sub-basement), seventh floor, and eighth floor were off limits to all staff except Dr. Raymond and his team. On those floors are machines and laboratories that specifically targeted forced mind alteration. It happens that children’s curiosities would start the evil ball rolling and the “wizard behind the curtain” is revealed.

This in turn leads to Celestic Gardens Orphanage in the NCD. The orphanage is a city-run facility for children up to 18 years old. The director of the orphanage was Griselda Gerard. Of course, in the 1970s and ‘80s lax oversight was apparent as Ms. Gerard ran the place like a fortress. Within, the teenage orphans ruled asserted their dominance over the younger children. Outstanding residents of the orphanage are Romayne Trevelyan, Sean Farrell, and Drake Cassidy. A few points about Ms. Gerard is that she was heavily vested in the occult and drugs to even worry about those she in charged to protect. Even the toughest of orphans cower in her presence when she is enraged. Years after her reign, Romayne, Sean, Drake, and other orphans lose their will to fight against her ingrained power, often reverting into a sense of subservience. A side note is that no orphans at Celestic Gardens are Zeraithes.

South of the North City Development is the City Center and Downtown. Wealth seems to grow as one drives from north to south. Herein are buildings of increasing height and multitudes of mirrored glass. Only one of these immense towers dominates the other market-seeking offices: Blaize Corporation Tower. Blaize Tower, for short, is the commercial stronghold of the nation’s most wealthy individual, Dràzden. He is the brute rival of the royal King Zàichad. Speaking of royalty, the majestic Zàyera Castle lies low among tall giants. It is a fantastical marvel that invokes the stylistic approach of fairytale castles rather than practical defense. It’s youthful, unblemished splendor is wasted as no sitting king or queen has seated there since the 1200s AD. The audience room is littered with modern, brown cardboard boxes of many sizes as if it were a lowly storage closet. The castle is unique in that it is fully constructed from materials imported from planet Zerài, the Zeraithe homeworld—no Earth-based cannon fire or ballistic missile can scratch Grand Zàyera.

Leaving finance and government while still downtown, there is entertainment. Plaize Khèntrico is a high-end outdoor mall situated around none other than Blaize Tower. While the plaza hosts expensive doodads at elegant boutiques, it also hosts extravagant bars and nightclubs that cater to just about every taste—there is entertainment for straight-seeking individual as well as those catering to the LGBT community. By LGBT, there is something for Tali Rathàniel, Dràzden’s business partner and best friend, to self acquaint himself with. Along with entertainment, there is sport. That is where the L’Aquila Dome comes in. The national sport of Zàyera is Luche! La Luche da la Championades de le Mond or Luche or LCM for short is hosted by Zàichad himself at the L’Aquila Dome. It is the most televised sport in the country, or else! The sport can be seen as a form of professional wrestling which includes its own brand of kayfabe.

Downtown cannot be fully witnessed if one were not to be educated. The scholarly Academie Auränd, simply known as Auränd Academy, has its campus a few blocks from the L’Aquila Dome. The school is situated in the Zàyera City School District; it is a public school without tuition. It is comprised of buildings for an elementary, a junior high, and a high school. The school still maintains its boarding houses, but it no longer boards students. Surrounding the mandatory school site is the Auränd State University at L’Aquila. University research comprises of Zeraithe studies in their magic system as well as their biology. By law, only ASU-LA can maintain such endeavor. One last thing is that ALL Zeraithes must take the Academy Exam even if they school elsewhere; if they do well, they get their name chiseled on the alumni wall at Main. To date, neither Zàichad nor Dràzden have attempted the exam, presumably their associates also.

As was said, the further south one goes, the more opulent the neighborhoods. The streets of the South City Expansion begin to line with large, needless living spaces. Well groomed lawns and parks mix in with classic hanging lantern shaped street lights. The Hill family residence is located in this neighborhood. Both Dane Hill and Kevin Hill made money off of their differing inventive ideologies. Kevin relies on genetic research, whereas Dane favors practical and useful tools. The Hills are both “unnatural” prodigies possessing superior intellect. Some other residents of the SCE are Zydanon O’Rourke and Wyzaron de Cerdaña both inheritors of separate family estates. The powerful women of Zàyera can’t go without saying Anastasia Remington’s name. Her family made their gold with the exploitation of alien artifacts.

In the SCE among the mansions and overly dressed convenience boutiques sits the Zàyera Center for the Gifted Intellect of Man. The CGIM is a place where Earth-native intellects can gather and share their insights of gifted knowledge. The building is distinguished by its cubic, neo-modern design in bright white; it is tucked away behind the mansions and gardens, seeking to be hidden from prying eyes. They do not allow extraterrestrials, including Zeraithes.

The city is not static with just its outstanding sights. Its people must be able to get around town and out of it. The city boasts a robust and reliable public bus system that runs just about every corner of the county as well as commuter end-of-lines at Èiyaure City and Auèsere City in their respective counties. Differently to the likes of New York City and Tokyo, taxi service is publicly owned and run in cooperation by the county and city government. The vehicles can go just about anywhere that the bus routes don’t allow. Of course, there is no law or ordinance prohibiting car ownership. A multi-lane freeway glides through the city as part of its journey to South Zàyera Island. The freeway also services the six other counties before crossing over the Ren Zàyera Bridge to Italy state. A little tidbit about the freeway is that it intentionally misses the other county seats in order to preserve their small town quaintness.

Rail, especially light rail is huge in Zàyera City. The city prefers light rail to metros or subways. The many lines criss-cross the city to provide expedited service to major transit hubs near big name sites such as Plaize Khèntrico, Celestic Gardens, Manior Roidane, and points in between. Expensively, the light rail was expanded to Èiyaure City (Èiyaure Line and Z-Line) and Auèsere City (Auèsere Line and D-Line). Both Zàichad and Dràzden had to provide private financing to the outlying lines. Freight and commuter rail run near the freeway to provide rail access to and from the island. The bridge to Italy contains a set of two way rails run between the car route.

Flight service is provided by Zàyera City International Airport in Khètzade County on South Zàyera Island. The city’s growth is ever flowing through to the southern island. Flights arrive from and depart to national destinations such as Rome, Paris, or Madrid to international ones such as New York City, Moscow, Cairo, or Tokyo. In 2001, both Auèsere County and Èiyaure County have become “No Fly Zones.”

Boat and ship service are also prevalent for an island environment. The city maintains commercial docks along its western seaboard up until they are zoned for recreational boats around the SCE. However, travel to and from Malta Island Research Center is restricted to special docking stations at government reserved docks located ONLY in Zàyera City. Departing from any other dock around the island for Malta is a crime against the royalty. Malta Island is similar to the hush-hush of United States’ Area 51; it is heavily guarded.

In 2002, the city opened its first spaceport in Khètzade County. Authorized personnel from the Galactic Federation use the spaceport to safely land their smaller scouting craft to deliver guests and trade materials. Earth-natives may enter the spaceport and the landing zone areas, however, they are not permitted to board a chartered (departing) craft. They may tour such crafts, but only if the craft’s owners allow it. Permission to land must be granted for hostile craft by order of the King of Zàyera (Zàichad) only; further, Earth-natives must be evacuated from the premises prior to landing.

Law enforcement is provided by the Zàyera City Police Department. Ironically, there are Dragon Thieves that head up some of the local precincts. These “thieves” are only known because their name marks them as an ancestral line of the old world thieves. The judiciary goes for a few courts before it reaches the Cèduai—the Thieves’ Court (as opposed to the Royal Court of Law under former King Fèrelon Zàyeralt). Law and ordinance creation is by elected city committee, then contested or approved by the King of Zàyera by option (doesn’t matter if it were Fèrelon at the time or Zàichad currently).

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The general map of Zàyera Island presented as an “Official Guidebook” from its State Office of Island Tourism. It is composed of six primary counties with the state capital, Zàyera City, located in the similarly named Zàyera County.

Historically, the island formerly known as Corse (Corsica) was part of the Roman Empire up until about 200 A. D. At that time, human-like aliens from the planet Zerài emerged from their homeworld by way of a wormwhole controlled by their group known as the Wizardry. With them, they brought their superior might and magic to the lesser developed Earth natives.

First, the Zeraithe Villagers horrifically culled the resident Europeans from the island using their superpowers. They did so to escape the ravage that engulfed their homeworld and to create a safe haven for the old kingdom’s survivors. At the center of the old kingdom’s tumult is the Great Thief Èiyauränd. He was the one who pillaged another being’s planetary treasure hideaway at the Temple of Dratalis, which caused Zerài to be engulfed in a purple, stasis-inducing haze at the behest of Emperor Rânsethe of planet Dratalis. Not long afterward, the Dragon Thieves emerged on Earth in about 224 A. D. bringing Èiyauränd with them, alive and well.

Throughout time on Earth, Zàyera Island became known as the “Island of Witches” by the Romans. Only once did Rome send a fleet to try and recover the island, but that was terribly unsuccessful. Ever since, Europeans and North Africans avoided the lost island. That name stuck with the island until around the 1800s with the growth of industry. The island remained neutral and no man’s land during both major world conflicts of the early 1900s. After World War II, Zàyera formally extended its hand of friendship to the ailing West Europe in exchange for peace between the two planetary beings. The Kingdom of Zàyera grew to include western Europe form Portugal to West Germany (eventually Germany, as a whole). The subdivisions of the Kingdom became officially known as “States” in a crude manner to those of the United States of America, hence the officially named State of Zàyera North Island!

Zàyera City in the county of similar name is the lively societal center of the island. It has grown to an immense size and grandeur such that it rivals great cities such as New York City, Tokyo, and London. The city is home to the Zeraithe-built Zàyera Castle. The fantastically majestic castle is known for being built with unique materials imported to Earth from Zerài. Other sights around the city are Blaize Corporation Tower, the L’Aquila Dome, and the Auränd Academy.

Èiyaure City, the county seat of Èiyaure County, is the home residence of the royal King Zàichad Eiyaurëc. The King’s estate does not hold tours. However, for being surrounded by lush forests, the city provides a cozy at-home feel for those who want to escape the hustle and bustle of the big City of Dragons. It is home to the once prosperous, now shuttered Zàyera State Mental Asylum. The name “Èiyaure” comes from Èiyauränd, the Great Dragon Thief, himself.

The mountainous region of Auèsere County is home to the wealthy Blaize Corporation owner, Dràzden Auèserëc. His manor is situated on the rocky slopes of the slanted Auèsere City, the country seat. The manor does not host tours. For the active mountaineering folk, this is the place to visit. Beware, the closed Zàyera State Correctional Penitentiary is located on the city’s outskirts. Its namesake comes from the thief Èiyauränd’s second-in-command and inseparable best friend, Auèserion.

The lore-rich and energy parched City and County of Râdvere is home to the great architectural marvel called the Gate of the Wizardry. It is a drum-shaped building similar to Rome’s own Coliseum, but taller. Missing is its grand spire, presumably stolen by Èiyauränd. The Gate is the second building constructed with Zeraithe materials. Overtime, the land around the Gate has been sapped of its energy creating an orange gravelly desert. However, the city is home to a vibrant and loose life for those seeking a show of luck at the Vel-Razard Club. Prominently, It is the home county of Khäd Râdverëc, a descendent of Râdvelon—the third-in-command to Èiyauränd—the region’s namesake.

Maldare County is a dark step in history. Royent Drec, its county seat, is drenched with the stench of death. While its denizens strive to live in a modern world, they live in the shadows of the Witches’ Sanctuary. The Sanctuary looms over the city as if it watches the residents’ every move. Lore has been told that after the Rebellion of 1244, the Ancient Witch Drècvard Zedàsie fled to this locale after King Fèrelon Zayeralt and family had self-exiled to places unknown. The Sanctuary’s visitor’s center is open from 8:00 Morn to 5:00 Day. However, the route to Drècvard’s Coven is off limits. Maldare is named after Màldaräd the sixth-in-command of the Dragon Thieves. “Royent Drec” is a vicious nod to Drècvard “the Coward.”

The sixth county is Fhàiere County whose seat is Zelestia. Lush grasslands and light forestry welcome visitors traveling by car across the Ren Zàyera Bridge from Italy state. The county is a camper’s dream as it is home to many public campgrounds. The county is the center of the island’s farming community with their market happening late summer. It is also home to Zàyera Panhandle State Park in the northeast of the island. The fifth-in-command of the Dragon Thieves, Fhàierel, instills his name to this plot of land. Zelestia is a derivation of Latin Caelestis.

TL;DR: Zàyera is an island near Italy full of super-human alien freaks!