New York in Shadow

Manhattan

District One

Financial District

• The Burning Towers: Wound (Wrath) — The towers constantly burn, as the images shown all over the world have captured the image of the towers in flames, transforming the Shadow in the site of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. The place is now a Wound, writ with the name of the horrible Maeljin of Wrath. Spirits of Wrath that appear as Islamic terrorists reap a terrible swathe through the spirits of sorrow, misery and desperation that the site constantly spawns. Tainted fire elementals, thirsty for blood often come billowing through sections of the tower, and sections of it fall like rain, accompanied by plummeting, screaming victims, to the asphalt below.

District Five

Midtown

• Citadel Triskadeka: Place-That-Isn’t — A building in the Shadow of New York. Citadel Triskadeka is a strange building, literally hundreds of stories high, taking up an entire block that doesn’t actually exist in the physical world. It is made up of a grouping of thirteen round towers, with a wall connecting all of them. The Citadel — which is also called the Fibonacci Building or the Cathedral of Metatron by New York’s occultists — holds the thirteenth floor of every building in New York that skips that floor. The building is populated by spirits of misfortune, lunar spirits, spirits of aluminum and a wide variety of other spirits associated with the number 13. The stairs in the thirteen towers lead to the various floors, each of which appears as a normal floor for that building, the walls of which are inset with elevators at the proper points. Stepping into one of these elevators can grant access to that building in the real world, with the elevator always opening on the 12th or 14th floors.
• The Tower of the Eternal Flame: Other Site — Built into the spiritual reflection of the Empire State Building is the Tower of the Eternal Flame, a tremendously tall tower, surmounted with a single massive torch of eternal, pure white-gold fire. The great spirit of the Empire State Building, a cloaked, shadowy figure that can assume the form of a massive gorilla that routinely climbs its walls, guards against any attempts at entry. The Gauntlet here is extraordinarily thick, unnaturally so, even for the middle of the city.

District Twelve

Inwood

• Dr. Caroline Masters High School: Wound — inspired by gang warfare that left dozens dead and nearly a hundred hospitalized.
• The Rotting Yard: Catalyst — Transforming spirits into creatures of urban blight; centered around the abandoned lot where a building was torn down, and then it became the defacto hang-out spot of a variety of individuals: bums and drug dealers at night, urban kids looking for some place to play during the day. In Shadow, the Rotting Yard is the massive cathedral that once stood there, now inhabited by the Church of the Bloody Asphalt, a Gods & Monsters-style Domain, who rule with terrifying hunger, consuming those spirits that do not partake of the Rotting Yard’s “blessings.”
• The Mean Streets of New York: Place-That-Isn’t – Fictional “mean streets” urban hellhole, with broken-down cars, gangbangers on every corner, bars on every window, and horrible things happening in alleyways. May be found by standing in the triangle formed by 10th Ave, Nagle Ave and W. 204th Street, or by entering any dingy alley within Shadow with an urban blight Resonance. Fed by the triune power of the Dyckman Houses Locus, the Rotting Yard and the Great Rust Tunnels.

Washington Heights

• The Fort Tryton War-Zone: Battlefield — A battlefield wherein the spirits of war battle eternally, though the war has been sluggish of late. In the 1970s, agents of the Church of the Bloody Asphalt joined in the battle and the park fell partially to crime and distinct urbanization, but the activities of local werewolves drove them out. Now, the sides are once again made up of spirits clad in Revolutionary War era American and British troops, competing Native American tribal regalia and gang warfare garb. All sides know better than to bring their conflict near the Cloisters.