The Torn City of Monsters
A Directory of People & Places
Welcome to the City of Monsters.This helpful guide is here to get you familiarize with the who, what and where of the city.
Inner Circle
The City's Ruling Council
Name: Fa'llynn Aetherpyre
Occupation: Alchemist & MedicAs well as leading the city's governing council, this vampiric Miqo'te is a skilled alchemist working in the City's infirmary. She may seem lost sometimes, but has a big heart and is incredibly bright where it counts.
Name: Athedima Aetherpyre
Occupation: Master CrafterA Saint of the Firmament Master Craftsman, and businessman. Along with being a Saint, Lord Athe has earned the Divine Protector title after supplying so much gil, material, and crafts to Ishgard, earning him practical nobility status within the City.
City Staff
NPC Characters found Throughout the City
Name: Gyokeki
Occupation: Market Hall ChefThis namazu culinarian came to share his love of world cuisine. Craving anything? He can whip it up for you, or even help with cooking lessons!
Name: Margaree
Occupation: LibrarianThis Poroggo is a friend to some, and a terror to most. She's rarely seen as she hurries around the library making sure everything is in order.If you want to get on her good side fast, maple-candied-flies are her favourite. But don't be late on your book returns or even treats won't help you!
Name: Goro
Occupation: Market Hall PerfumerThis Husky-like Lupin with gentle violet eyes is a delight. He will do his best to find the best scents for everyday use, or to impress a lover or two.He also sells hair care products and soaps from all over the world.
Name: Drusa jen Quintina
Occupation: Nurse, Infirmary ReceptionistOrganized with a friendly disposition, she's likely your first point of contact when in need of medical aid. Having served the Garlean consulate in Kugane, she now offers her skills to the City of Monsters.
Name: V'lohx
Occupation: BartenderYou may ask him - is it tough serving monsters, even nice ones, when things can get a little rowdy? Well, he would say yes, but he'd also say he loves it.You will usually be served by this kind fellow at the bar, who got cooking lessons from Gyokeki and does excellent work at both mixing drinks and cooking at the grill!
Residents
Player Characters who live & work in the City
Name: Fa'llynn Aetherpyre
Occupation: Alchemist & MedicContact For: Donor & Infirmary Staff job positions.
Name: This position is open!
Occupation: Castle AttendantContact For: Contact the Inner Circle if interested.
Name: This position is open!
Occupation: Library AttendantContact For: Contact the Inner Circle if interested.
Name: This position is open!
Occupation: Chobobo HandlerContact For: Stable Hand job position.
Name: Ysila Dawnstrike
Occupation: Captain of the City GuardContact For: City Guard job positions.
Name: Winter Eve
Occupation: EntertainerContact For: Entertainer job positions.(coming soon)
Name: This position is open!
Occupation: BartenderContact For: Contact the Inner Circle if interested.
Name: This position is open!
Occupation: CookContact For: Contact the Inner Circle if interested.
Locations
Wondering where to find things?
A guide to the places and services found in the city.
The City of Monsters
The city itself is located in the Twinpools area of the Coerthas Western Highlands.
All services are roleplay hooks only. No gil or goods are exchanged.
Shopping
City Market Hall
Location: 2nd floor, right side.Services: Meet travelling and city artisans providing a wide selection of services from armour and weapons to small goods.Contact: Athedima Aetherpyre if you're interested in becoming a Merchant in the city.
Armour & Materia Services
Small Goods
Atelier Fabrilis
Location: Room #5Services: A small fashion boutique offering high quality garb from Illsabard, Ishgard and Kugane.Contact: Clausius cen Clapeyron for a private consultation.
Fashion
Beauty
Health
City Infirmary
Location: Main floor, left of the front doors.Services: Providing for all of the city's medical and health needs including surgery and long-term care.The infirmary also trains medics the methods and techniques used in the city for providing health care to the various peoples that reside there.Contact: Fa'llynn if you're in need of medical aid, or would like to become a blood Donor, or Infirmary Staff.
Intake & Triage
Recovery
Eastern Spa
Location: Basement, room to the left.Services: Enjoy a moment soak in the tub, or simply relax by the Koi fish.
Soak
Relax
Pixie Hollow
Location: Room #2Services: A magical sanctum for some of the city's more unique (and miniscule) residents. Take a break from the world's troubles, and come in to immerse yourself in the magic.
Pixies
Porxies
Dining
Bar & Banquet Hall
Location: Basement, end of hall.Services: Enjoy a casual evening of drinks, and snacks from the grill; or come out for an evening of entertainment and fine dining.Contact: Winter Eve if you're interested in working as a Bartender or Entertainer.
Bar & Bites
Dining & Entertainment
City Market Food Stalls
Location: 2nd Floor, right side.Services: Satisfying all your dietary needs and wants - from blood to hot pots, dumplings and pastries. Craving something specific? Just ask the staff to prepare it!
Market Food Stalls
Pastry & Drinks
Tea Nook
Location: Landing.Services: The perfect place to try a new blend of tea. Come to chat with friends or get cosy with a book on a cold Coerthas evening.
Tea Nook
Reading
City Library
Location: 2nd Floor, left side.Services: Books can be loaned out or lead in the lush interior of the library. (Don't worry, all books are enchanted against damage!)Interested in working in the city's library? Then take a look at the Library Attendant position!
Library Hall
Reading Rooms
Map Archives
Location: Main Floor, right of stairs.Services: From Eorzea to the Far East, current and historical maps can be found stored in this nook.Please do not take these maps out of the city! They don't lead to treasures.
Map Archives
Entertainment
Banquet Hall Stages
Location: Basement, end of hall.Services: Enjoy a live performance in the city's banquet hall or take your turn on stage durring Open Mic Night!Contact: Winter Eve if you're interested in being an Entertainer.
Dance Stage
Music Stage
Arcade
Location: Basement, 3rd room on the right.Services: Try your hand at a variety of games, aim for the highest score or a chance to win a wide selection of plushie prizes!
Games Room
Plushie Prizes
Theatre
Location: Basement, 2nd room on the right.Services: Enjoy a screening in the City's theatre. From newest releases to classic films, and fascinating documentaries. Why not bring a date, then enjoy dinner in the banquet hall?
Theatre Room
Animal Care
The Crow's Nest
Location: Room #8Services: With attentive care, plenty of roosting spots and a selection of fresh food for various bird types, your avian companions could not hope for better care than what's provided here.Contact: Ares Arachnida, or Kylian Bloodrain
Avian Care
Job Board
Are you in need of work?
Employment opportunities available to city residents.
All jobs are roleplay hooks only. They are meant to help deepen a character's story and connection to the City of Monsters. No gil or other forms of payment will be exchanged.
Donor
Job description
Donors aren’t true blood donors in the sense most people think. Rather, they feed those within the City of Monsters of a vampiric nature for either blood or aether. Blood donations for medical purpose are obsolete due to the City’s rare potions that will be described later in this listing. Blood donors here will either allow themselves to be bitten and/or allow their blood to be drawn so the residents of the City who need it can consume it. Aether donors work in much the same fashion, but will either give aether in person or via crystal they create from their essence.
Benefits
Donors get free food, medical care, and salary from the City. Lodging is also free.
Job Risk
The City has specific ways to combat this, but there are health risks that tend to be minimal. The largest risk is exhaustion. Due to the side effects of the medications, large donations will need to be followed with periods of no-combat-or-extraneous-activity rest. Donors can consistently provide, however they need to remain in low-activity environments if they do so consistently.
Risk Reduction
Rare herbs combine into a City-specific potion that increases blood cell production. A separate potion helps aether recovery, though currently it is not nearly to the rate of the blood-cell production potion. This eats a lot of energy, so the side-effect includes exhaustion and high increase requirement of food intake.
Requirements
A strong health record with no anemia. No phobia of vampires or biting. Understanding that regular health visits are a MUST. Understanding that you should probably not be in combat constantly or when you are on duty as a donor (with two week buffer.)
Contact
Fa'llynn Aetherpyre
Infirmary Staff
Job description
Your job is to care for the unfortunate monsters & friends that come in and need aid. This includes regular visits and trauma care. Patients will have their own medical profiles, by which you must follow. Measuring the levels in blood of donors is also quite important. High-end infirmary staff will be qualified in surgery. There is a mixture of magical and physical means to help those who are in the infirmary. Psychiatric care may also need to be provided.
Benefits
High pay, free lodging & food, high respect
Job Risk
Bites and other potential monster damage for those possibly out of control.
Risk Reduction
Medical restraints of various types depending on who needs to be restrained.
Requirements
Vigorous training in the infirmary by one of the higher-rank staff. Please contact those running the infirmary with interest.
Contact
Fa'llynn Aetherpyre
Castle Attendant
Job description
The Castle Attendant is tasked with cleaning the castle! Dusting, sweeping, and the like. It’s a pretty simple job but the pay is very high, and you’d be assigned to one section to take care of.
Benefits
High pay, you can listen to music on the job, free lunch!
Job Risk
Ghost attacks. We’re joking, the Castle isn’t haunted. You’re more at risk for a book falling on your head.
Risk Reduction
Ghost Busters! We’re joking, the Castle isn’t haunted. We have instructions for areas to be careful of if there are sharp things in particular in one part. By sharp things, we don’t mean the teeth of our residents, we mean weapons.
Requirements
The will to clean. Accommodations will be provided through tech if you have movement hindrances.
Contact
Fa'llynn Aetherpyre
Library Attendant
Job description
Want to work for our Poroggo librarian? Wonderful, just don’t mess up the organization system. If you’re a fan of working with books all day, this job is for you.
Benefits
Tons of books, good pay, free naps in the library.
Job Risk
A very angry Poroggo if you fuck up, and trust us, she can be scary. Otherwise, books falling on your head.
Risk Reduction
Maple covered flies. You’ll thank us later.
Requirements
A love of books and a knack for organization!
Contact
Fa'llynn Aetherpyre
Stable Hand
Job description
Training and tending juvenile to adult chocobos who need to be acclimatized to being ridden by the residents of the city.
Benefits
Spend all your time, day and night with chocobos! What else would you want? Ok, pay, and lodging is provided.
Job Risk
Chocobo bites, wing slaps and kicks. Have you ever seen an annoyed toddler? Ok, add feathers to that and double the temperamental outbursts, and increase the neediness for constant care and attention by about 400%. That’s a chocobo hatchling!
Risk Reduction
Proper chocobo handling training - provided by the stable master. Good leather work clothes, and a lot of patience.
Requirements
A fondness for animals, birds, and chocobos in particular. Successfully complete the four month attendant apprenticeship, and pass the basic chocobo handling exam. Patience, and a calm demeanor will also get you far.
Merchant
Job description
You’ll sell high-quality wares to folks through your business in the City, which offers a diverse selection of things throughout all of Eorzea. We have a reputation to maintain, however, so if we find your quality is not top-notch, you will be asked not to sell within the City. We want satisfied clients and customers.
Benefits
Buyers from all over the world but especially Ishgard.
Job Risk
Removal if your quality is not top-notch
Risk Reduction
Inspections & aid if the merchant is willing to learn.
Requirements
Have a business of some sort you would like to sell wares through!
contact
Athedima Aetherpyre
Guard
Job description
Have you ever wanted to babysit a bunch of monsters who are prone to getting themselves hurt? Well, now you can! The guard position is to protect our residents from ruffians such as monster hunters, zealots who want to ‘purge us’ for existing, and other nasty assortments of people. There are a variety of places to be assigned, such as the front yard, dungeon, or wandering inside. You can also guard the merchants or show area.
Benefits
High pay, free lunch, sometimes free alcohol at the bar, great gossip.
Job Risk
Where do we even start with this one? This would be considered a combat position, so everything that comes with that.
Risk Reduction
The City itself is incredibly rich and holds high respect from Ishgard. We have allies with many of the Knights, along with tech that protects the City. Guards rarely need to worry about true egregious injuries, for attacking the City would be about as smart as striking at any other major city. Also, it may be cold outside, but we have warming tech.
Requirements
Willing to stand out in the cold for a while, wander the castle, and chase away people trying to hurt City residents.
contact
Ysila Dawnstrike
Crafter
Job description
This City welcomes and adores crafters. Be you a specialist without much interest for the wide variety, or an omnicrafter, we could always use interested parties. You can sell your wares in the City or contribute to its many needs. People are always needing stuff, after all!
Benefits
Set your own price! If you sell to the City, we pay top dollar for quality crafts.
Job Risk
Market fluctuations.
Risk Reduction
The City is a hub for folks all over the world! There’s a high chance there will be interest in your crafts from various sources.
Requirements
Expert in one or more crafting jobs.
contact
Athedima Aetherpyre
Gatherer
Job description
The City is always in need of Gatherers! We use a lot of very rare materials in the infirmary, for example, that are critical to the health of Donors or monsters in a health crisis. With the amount of crafters we have, you’ll never run out of people to sell to, either, if they are not interested in gathering themselves.
Benefits
High pay, especially for rare mats applicable to the infirmary.
Job Risk
Risks that apply to gathering all around the world! Nothing specific in our case.
Risk Reduction
Safety protocol pamphlets! A pair of steel-toed boots, a good pair of gloves, and safety helmets as needed.
Requirements
An expert in one or more of the gathering jobs.
contact
Athedima Aetherpyre
Fa'llynn Aetherpyre
Entertainer
Job description
You’re a star! You will entertain on one of the stages down in the lower floor of the City. You can either use the pole for adult entertainment or set up bands or plays on the other stage. The world is the limit!
Benefits
Great pay, tips, free lodging & frequent free food.
Job Risk
Any risks that come with production and other such things.
Risk Reduction
Safety protocol on stage.
Requirements
A love for entertaining people.
contact
Winter Eve
Bartender
Job description
Want to serve at the City of Monsters? You can! You’re free to cover for the bar and grill when you are needed on shift. Bonus points if you know how to cook.
Benefits
Good pay, free food, gossip.
Job Risk
Any risks that come working with a bar, including potential bar brawls.
Risk Reduction
High security in City of Monsters.
Requirements
Drink-mixing knowledge.
Contact
Fa'llyn Aetherpyre
Cook
Job description
Do you have a passion for cooking? Then this job may be for you! There are special diets to accommodate for in the City of Monsters you will have to keep in mind, however.
Benefits
Good pay, free food.
Job Risk
General risks that come with cooking.
Risk Reduction
High Quality tools.
Requirements
High-end cooking training.
Contact
Fa'llyn Aetherpyre
Reporter
Job description
It’s important to keep up to date with important news, and with this job, you’ll be able to help people do just that. It doesn’t all have to be doom and gloom, though! Make sure to put out stories that inspire people as much as awaken them to the harsh reality that the world can be cruel. Your voice is critical for helping folks be in-the-know, and with your skills, you’ll deliver stories for the news in a timely manner.
Benefits
Moderate pay, free lunch, very juicy scoop
Job Risk
Cognito hazard… hopefully you don’t stumble across something you don’t know. Worse if you write a story about it!
Risk Reduction
The City can provide guards or Knights to aid your expeditions should you be gathering information outside of the City itself. Otherwise, rules are clear around the City, so be sure to respect the residents!
Requirements
Excellent writing ability, timely for deadlines, ravenous thirst…for knowledge! What? Did you think I’d say something else?
Photographer
Job description
The news needs its photos, as a picture can be worth a thousand words! You’ll be providing photographs for the newspaper, but also could be hired for events such as weddings, showroom performances, and more. Try not to slip too far into the paparazzi mindset, for our ‘celebrities’ do have a chance to bite back if you’re a bit too annoying.
Benefits
Moderate pay, free lunch, top of the line camera equipment.
Job Risk
Have you ever snapped an embarrassing photo of a vampire and lived to tell the tale? You will in this City, but you may leave with a few pricks on the neck, and not in the fun way.
Risk Reduction
The City can provide guards or Knights to aid your expeditions should you be gathering photos outside of the City itself. Otherwise, your own common sense should reduce a bit of the risk… hopefully.
Requirements
Camera equipment (the City can provide this! But please take good care of it), artistic vision/a knack for perspective, patience for juuuuust the right shot.
City Laws
Like any major city, the City of Monsters has a system of laws, and methods for punishing criminals.Posted at the entrances, and in public thoroughfares are signs with the basic rules that all residents and visitors are expected to follow. Should those rules be broken, there is a prison too.
Rules Signage
Where are these posted?
At the entrance of the City, and all around it otherwise.
Torn the City of Monsters
Respect others.
Visitors are welcome so long as they respect the oddities in the city--you don't need to be one yourself.
Evil-doers are not tolerated!
Attacks on innocents are not tolerated. (You can request non-kill duels of residents though.)
No biting, or other feeding, without permission.
Do not steal from the citiy, residents, or visitors.
Prying for information is not allowed.
Any intimate behaviour beyond kissing will need to be relocated to a private room.
Questions? Speak with the city leaders
The Inner Council are Athedima & Fa'llynn
Think about rules typical of a Major City
and apply it here.
Prison
Inauspicious Dungeon
Location: Room #15Extra strength bars, and aetherically isolated, the city prison is set up to securely and safely handle both regular prisoners, and those with voidsent or otherwise enhanced abilities.Since rehabilitation is the city's goal in most cases, the cells are rather comfortable. A good bed, and three meals a day are provided. Select books are available upon request.
Voidsent Containment
Prisoner Cells
What to expect
The prisoner is stripped of all but underclothes and put into prison clothing. An orange dyed hempen shirt and trousers.
A magic-nullifying collar is placed onto the prisoner to prevent spellcasting.
All of the prisoner's items, including & especially weapons, will be thoroughly searched, then secured in a magic-nullifying storage container.
Prisoner diet will be accommodated by the City, along with any other circumstances the City is able to aid with.
Torture is prohibited. If the crime is the trafficking of people or r*pe, an execution will occur immediately. Other crimes will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Most prisoners will be put on a ‘rehabilitation’ program, in other words, ‘killing with kindness’, until they are not a danger to society, and can be safely released.
Security
The prison is under round the clock guard, and escaping is ill-advised.Due to the nature of the individuals the city deals with, this is a maximum-security prison with magitek involved. For the safety of the City resident's, the turrets will shoot on sight anyone attempting to leave before being officially released from the prison.
