The ritual...
 Deep under Fendarke Manor, the blood cult of Zan wipes out the last noble bloodline in the countryside. Zan pays the priests with the privilege of becoming his new vessel.  

Star City
A booming magi-punk city in Burwell, where the majority ruling class are mages trying to make improvements to life via magic powered machines. Elevators, light-highways, pocket dimensional apartment buildings, and the mystic wonder of indoor plumbing!

Long ago, magic-users and seers came to a huge crater at land's end. The craters core, erected a shining green tower with a violet glowing glass bloom at the top. The time to settle and build was now. Where did this purple rose appear from? No one knows. That's why many come from far away to gaze upon and study it. One of the wonders of the world, between the Great Crystal Tree of Velio and God's axe in Regalio.