The setting is inspired by Looking Glass Studio's Thief video game series, though it is not the same. The City, a stone monolith nestled in the whispering hills of a temperate climate. Isolated, it's past and origin all stop at a dead end for even those who search for it. The magic number is 200 years past, and yet no one knows truly what lies beyond the walls in the forests to the west and south, the mountains to the north, nor the cursed bay to the east. The setting is like the melding of the medieval, classical, and victorian eras all into one. The City is on the rise of an industrial revolution, yet no one knows who is controlling the government, and gunpowder has yet to make its discovery.