📍 Location: Mothers Ring
Atmosphere
The Mothers Ring, also known as “Mom”, is one of the largest circles of Falano Port. It is known as the worker ring — less clean than the rest of the city and somewhat overpopulated. A large number of vegetable döner stands defines the olfactory experience on its streets.
🌍 Geography & Climate
- Landscape: Sci-fi, Art Nouveau, but more elegant and somewhat plainer
🏙️ Districts & Points of Interest
- Falanomer Economy College, one of the most renowned economy universities in Falano Port
- Saint-Rousseau Cemetery, a spaciously designed park cemetery with a central mausoleum and a decommissioned silicate mine serving as a burial chamber
- Old Rosen Cemetery
- Starbound Cemetery
- Sonnenmacher-Gedenkpark
- (+ 2 more, smaller cemetery grounds)
- “Foundation. Reserved.” – underground chamber at the geometric center of the hexagram; access point: barred basement window at the northwestern edge of Saint-Rousseau Cemetery
👥 Demographics & Culture
- Primary Inhabitants: Workers, though it is not a dangerous place. The Ordnungswache is present in the Mothers Circle as well.
📜 Lore & History
- Founding: Built in 2755-2772
- Historical Events:
- 3051-04-15 Das Geheimnis des Mothers Ring – Hexagram pattern of the six cemetery grounds discovered; underground chamber identified
- 3051-04-22 Die Kammer unter dem Mothers Ring – Ordnungswache enters the structure for the first time in 277 years
- Current State: The Mothers Ring, like all areas of Falano, is under constant oversight by the Triumviratsrepublik Falano. It is simply a worker ring that appears less luxurious than the rest of the city.
🌑 Hidden Features
Spoiler: Secrets of the Land
- Underground: Mom is home to many criminal organizations. It also hosts the Dark Web, the largest secret marketplace for semi-legal goods. It is not illegal per se — there are very few products that cannot be traded in Falano. However, specific exceptions exist, and those can be found on the Dark Web as well.
- Dark Secret: The district was planned and built by Larik Anahan Kahn — a co-founder of the Kigal-Shu. Kahn deliberately designed the ring to form a massive ritual circle: the six largest cemetery grounds mark the exact vertices of a hexagram (deviation ø 0.3%), and at the geometric center lies an underground chamber, noted in Kahn’s original plans as “Foundation. Reserved.” Kahn’s architectural documentation uses what he called the Keystone Symbol (downward-pointing triangle, crossed out) for rooms of this kind — a designation he never explained.
- The Chamber: A circular room, ~12 m in diameter, vaulted ceiling, no light. At its center stands a flat stone table holding seven sealed containers made of an unknown material. The walls bear texts in an early form of the Kigal-Shu-Chiffre. Beside them, a single handwritten sheet in modern standard script: “You have found what has been waiting. The key is not here. It will come to you.” — The chamber had been undisturbed since 2774; the Ordnungswache entered it for the first time on 3051-04-22.
- Whereabouts of Josef Stadl-Heuriger: The cemetery keeper of Saint-Rousseau Cemetery, who had identified access to the chamber, left the courtroom on 3051-04-22 after giving his testimony and has not been reachable since. His last known location: the barred basement window — which he found open the night before, despite having been sealed for at least 200 years.
- Unstable Elements: Due to the ritual circle structure, the boundary between the Material Plane and the Eternal Plane within the Mothers Ring is considered extraordinarily thin. There are many ghost sightings.
📝 Notes & Trivia
- The cemeteries within the Mothers Ring find little rest — a relocation of all burial grounds is under discussion in order to reduce ghost encounters.