The City · Modern Gothic Horror
Aragost
A functioning modern city built over an appetite. By day it is offices, transit, and rent. By night it keeps its ledger.
The City at a Glance
- Type
- Modern metropolis with a supernatural underworld
- Surface
- Ordinary — work, rent, traffic, neon and rain
- Beneath
- The Rot, pressing up through the thin places
- Its people
- Tallow — most never know the word
- Its law
- See Rules & Manifestations
The City Itself
Aragost looks like anywhere: wet asphalt, late buses, a coffee place that stays open too long. The horror is not that it is strange—it is that it is ordinary, and the strangeness lives one street over, behind a door the locals have learned not to look at twice. People work, pay rent, and avoid certain alleys. They tell themselves the shadows are only shadows.
How It Works
Beneath the surface runs The Rot—an ecosystem of hungers that treats people as fuel. It collects rent at the thin places and is hunted, where it can be, by Dee. The city keeps a quiet ledger of everyone who learns its real name too late.
Walk the City
A Major Power
The Butterfly Landing
Mel’s ground, and the closest thing Aragost has to neutral territory.
The Market
Widow’s Mile
Where the desperate sell what they shouldn’t and the patient buy it cheap.
A Thin Place
The Drowned Chapel
Where the choir is loudest and the wall between worlds has worn to a wet skin.