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Babylon

A Home For Wandering Souls

The Settlement of Babylon is a large town, bordering on the size of a city, situated in the mild southern lands of the dragon-shaped continent, Abitus. It serves as both the largest and most easily defensible fortress in the region, regularly taking in people from nearby settlements who were displaced by Grimm, and also serving as the main headquarters of Project Babel.

Culture

With such a diverse population within such a young nation, Babylon doesn’t have an easily identifiable or even cohesive “culture” to speak of. What they do have, however, is a large number of people who lived through the worst of a war- with all the ugliness that comes with living alongside former enemies. Arguments and fistfights are not at all uncommon in the town, and most who live there are expected to have the sort of hardiness that comes with dealing in unpleasant and strenuous work, though there is a sort of peacefulness to it as well. Fights rarely go too far, they're broken up as quickly as feasible, and people are reminded:

Needless conflict was what took the most from them. Do they really want to repeat their past mistakes?

Geography & Climate

Abitus for the most part is completely inhospitable. Miles upon miles of blackened, smoking earth dotted with small volcanoes, jagged mountain ranges, and some of the strongest and most plentiful Grimm that Remnant has to offer. However, there is a section of the landmass that stretches from the southernmost point on up and out towards an eastern peninsula, home to great fields of green, fertile soil, and sizable dust deposits- though it does still hold quite a large number of Grimm as well. Babylon’s walls are tall and strong, equipped with unmanned anti-Grimm weaponry styled after those in Atlas and protected and defended by a veritable army of Hunter and soldier residents.

Babylon itself is a mish-mash of buildings of many different sizes and styles, connected by a winding road system that converges at a single point in the very center of the town, where it’s central government and the Project Babel headquarters are both situated, directly across from one another. There is a large-scale construction project going on near the center as well, though not many people know what it’s really for. It looks to be nearing completion.

Origin

The settlement was the product of months and months of work done primarily by a humanitarian organization known as Project Babel. The foundation was created in the aftermath of the war originally to treat and rehabilitate the injured fighters on both sides, and help reintegrate them back into civilian life after years of armed conflict. In addition to that, they helped to find living arrangements and support lines for families displaced in the conflict. It was intended to be a neutral presence to help those most heavily affected by the war.

It branched off into Babylon after a lot of their patients expressed a great desire to repay their kindness, some quite literally. It was a small operation that had already been in motion; the building of a defensive outpost on the southern point of Abitus to more quickly send aid to the few settlements that existed on the continent already, but had been halted on the pretense of being underfunded. Project Babel undertook it with the help of their thousands upon thousands of rehabilitated patients- and they expanded it. It was built up, and up, and up, into a massive and heavily-defended settlement populated by all sorts of people, from retired war vets, to displaced families, and many, many Hunters.