Solium Speculorum

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Player Characters

London, England

During the Reign of Queen Victoria

Population: 5,633,806 (1896)

The City

Central London, based around the "Square Mile" that is the old original walled city of London.

Bloomsbury • Charing Cross • Covent Garden • The Docks & Wapping • Holborn • The Square Mile • St. Giles

The West End

Formerly swathes of farmland, the West End is now home to many grand houses and sections of new city life.

Bayswater • Belgravia • Brompton & Chelsea • Fulham • Hammersmith • Kensal Green • Kensington • Marylebone • Mayfair • Notting Hill • Paddington • Pimlico • St. James (Clubland) • St. Johns Wood • St. Pancras • Westminster

The Hills

The high ridge north of old London. Formerly agricultural, but the city has grown over and swallowed up the old farms into new metropolitan areas.

Former Villages • Islington • Hampstead • Highbury • Highgate • Holloway

The East End

Poverty and crime are a way of life in the East End. Home to the desperate, as well as those immigrants who rarely find a welcome anywhere else in the city.

Limehouse & the Isle of Dogs • Mile End & Stepney • Whitechapel

The Southwark

The southern bank of the Thames, originally where the rich escaped the city. Now it is home to rookeries and poverty, and those industries not tolerated in finer parts of the city.

Battersea & Clampham • Bermondsey • Deptford & Greenwich • Lambeth • Peckham • Putney • Rotherhithe

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Chronicle Resources

• Solium Speculorum Chronicle Stats, a compilation of the Attributes, Skills and Arcana ratings of the PCs in the chronicle, used to determine relative importance of focus areas to the group.

Victorian London

• Money in Victorian London, a quick primer to how money works in the Victorian British Empire.
• London Unveiled: Victorian Era, detailing the Awakened of Victorian London

Noteworthy Locales

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Reference

• Victorian London: The ultimate resource for Victorian London. [1]
• Victorian Cost of Living: A guide to weekly and yearly expenditures in Victorian England. [2]

Merits

• Victorian Resources Merit: The Resources Merit, as presented for Victorian chronicles.

House Rules

• WoD Merits: Current Roster: Library (• - •••) and Quick Healer (•• or ••••)
• WoD Health Levels: House rule regarding World of Darkness Health Trait.
• Natural Healing: Recovery from injuries in the World of Darkness, including information on medical care. Includes the Quick Healer Merit.
• WoD Research: System for researching the lore of the World of Darkness.
• WoD Conditions: Conditions for the World of Darkness.
  • WoD Downtime Conditions: For characters with focused downtime interests.
  • WoD Grief Conditions: For characters going through the stages of grieving.
• WoD Tilts: Tilts for the World of Darkness.
• CoD Urban District Traits: The six Traits associated with neighborhoods in Chronicle of Darkness cities.