lore
the nameless city
The Nameless City is a mysterious, sometimes malevolent, always changing community full of untold wonders and horrors. Its different districts embody a variety of auras, so there's something for everyone. All beings are welcome, with their delicious array of appetites.
You may happen upon a portal that leads you to the Nameless City. You may be pushed through the fabric of your own universe - from literally any time, and any place - and into ours. Once you're in the Nameless City, you will not be able to leave. Enter our community as an already-established character, or as a fresh addition who must stumble through the city in search of meaning and purpose. Whatever sparks your creativity.
Be sure to check our city map for detailed information on each district. Due to the eldritch energy that created the city, flora and fauna alike will reveal new secrets as time goes on, and newcomers must earn their trust. Be prepared for mysteries.
So how old is the city anyway?
Unknown. While some people were born in the city, the vast majority arrive at some point in their lives from some other location. Because some are born here, we can safely intuit that the city is at least 30 years old, but it seems to be very difficult to find individuals from that time… and those who can be found have memory gaps. The vast majority of the population has arrived in the last 12 years.
Anyone who has arrived in the past decade will not have memory gap issues.
NOTE: It isn’t 2024 in TNC, but we’re using standard date conventions here so that you can do the math, and have your OCs say “this occurred # months ago.”
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The Nameless City is established.
2011
Ethan Kindle arrives in The Nameless City and is tasked with reducing the quantity of unpredictable chaos in town, and to increase stability of the environment. Any citizens who have been in TNC longer than 12 years will remember the time prior to this as being significantly more chaotic and violent.
2011
Citywide welcome party for Ethan Kindle, including a parade and a personal tour of every district.
2011
Hollow Heights and Gemsbok Glade are isolated from the rest of the City, presumed to be lost forever.
2012
Black Tower Enterprises opens its doors. Read more about all facets of the Black Tower here. The building that the Black Tower company occupies (the black tower itself) is far older than the company.
2015
Gravity fails for several weeks. A Ceremony of Weights is held to restore equilibrium across the City.
July 2021
The Theatre District hosts a celebration of musical stylings from across the multiverse — residents from all districts are invited to share instruments
and their culture.
august 2021
The Department of Resident Services formally opens in an effort to provide free housing, food, job placement, education, and other resources to help newly arrived residents successfully transition into their lives in the city.
September 2021
A supernatural freeze covers the city, making the outdoors deadly to exist in for a week. The Great Freeze is referred to by some of our older OCs.
October 2021
Harvest festivities span the entire city, including a masquerade ball, banishing of the gloom, feasts, bonfires, and other costumed festivities.
December 2021
Overnight, the northern boundary of the Theatre District disappears — to expose a narrow river, and a new district beyond. Hollow Heights is populated, but has existed in isolation until now. Its sister district, Gemsbok Glade, remains in isolation.
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January 2022
La Fête à L'Ombre takes place, a formal gathering of criminal minds. Leaders of criminal factions and potential individuals-for-hire network at the
February 2022
Charming the Plow, a celebration of new beginnings, occurs in Red Hook. This feast (and orgy!) anticipates a fruitful spring planting season. Afterward, a mysterious pheromone sweeps the
city, inciting residents to act on
their basest instincts.
FEbruary 2022
Ethan Kindle instigates the creation of the Black Dolls with its founder, Krasota Medvyedev.
April 2022
A Night Market set up in the Theatre District allows vendors and other tradespeople to network and
find new customers.
May 2022
The Fight Ring is absorbed by the Black Dolls and provides financial backing for it to continue operating “independently.”
July 2022
A Midsummer Masquerade is held at Aguil Beach, at night. Bonfires, shadows, and magical gold paint mark
the evening.
July 2022
Leisureland awakens — monstrous beasts of all kinds begin showing up in and around the abandoned theme park, enticing intrepid hunters.
August 2022
A barbecue and mudwrestling event is held off the beaches of Leisureland, hosted by the Fight Ring.
August 2022
An Abyssal Sunrise haunts the city: for a few days, the sun simply does not appear, and a haunting red light illuminates the city. Creatures affected by light/dark are at its mercy.
September 2022
A mysterious portal opens in the Floating Shelf, sparking rumors that escape from the city may be possible. Expeditions to explore the other side of the portal commence.
October 2022
A bonfire festival celebrates a successful harvest and the coming cold weather. Unexpectedly, the expedition returns in the middle of the festivities.
december 2022
A peaceful winter event in Tatara Greenway goes awry as horrific ghasts prey on the minds of anyone who strays from the merry, well-lit path. Shoshana Barber almost dies; several residents are shown their worst fears.
december 2022
A gigantic cat appears in City Centre and plays a game of mouse with several residents of the city.
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january 2023
Gilt Ophidian, the Painted Dogs, and the Fight Ring gather together to create a formal criminal alliance. Bonds are forged among the affiliations to ensure future collaboration.
January 2023
The second expedition through the mysterious Rift in Hollow Heights begins. This mission hopes to further explore what expeditioners call “The Glitch,” and recover members who were left behind during the first trip.
January 2023
The Black Dolls are formally renamed Gilt Ophidian. Their former leader, Krasota, is supplanted by Manon.
February 2023
Charming the Plow, a celebration of new beginnings, occurs in Red Hook. For the second year in a row, this
feast and bacchanal anticipates
a fruitful spring season.
February 2023
The first refugees from The Glitch arrive in the Nameless City, having escaped the environment with the second expedition.
May 2023
The third expedition begins early, going as an emergency management support team due to a violent, sentient storm that all but destroyed the town in the Glitch.
June 2023
An unexpected, violent shamal blows through the city. Residents are forced to shelter in place and work together to rescue strangers in the midst of these dangerous sands.
June 2023
During the shamal, a new district appears beyond the cañón that scales the eastern border of Hollow Heights. This district is known as Gemsbok Glade.
August 2023
In an effort to encourage tourism and exploration of Gemsbok, the City sponsors a summer party at
Oasis Resort.
August 2023
After a particularly heavy thunderstorm with almost sentient lightning, TNC residents Monty, Syn, and Nora all find the hole in the shelf is now an impenetrable cylinder of glass. The glow from the Glitch rift can be seen on the other side.
September 2023
Several weeks after lights through the glass wall are reported, they go dark — the Rift which allowed access to the Glitch is now gone.
September 2023
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September 2023
The final expedition embarks.
September 2023
For the first time in 13 years, Ethan Kindle leaves the Nameless City. During his visit to the Glitch, no sentient individuals are able to die.
November 2023
A fixed interdimensional road is anchored between the Glitch and TNC, which will make travel between the spaces much easier in the future.
November 2023
The final expedition returns to the city.
december 2023
The peaceful farolito walk
goes awry for the second year in
a row — multiple residents are
attacked in LaValle Port.
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February 2024
Charming the Plow occurs in Red Hook. For the third year in a row, this feast and bacchanal anticipates a fruitful spring season. Vail attacks Autumn Prairie at the celebration.
February 2024
The villainous trio takes Red Hook. Vail makes a public address on the shift
in power and Autumn Prairie’s death.
February 2024
Several factions — including Seekers of Truth and members of the Painted
Dogs — organize search parties to
look for the missing councilmember.
MArch 2024
Ballard Institute is attacked and damaged by Al’Zahǂim's sand soldiers. As a result, Fea floods Borough Park.
March 2024
The Seeds of Rebellion is borne from the new regime in the form of guerilla warfare, peaceful artistic protest, cultural celebrations, and the creation
of a pirate radio station.
March 2024
Subira finds a large patch of growth in the Bone Fields where Autumn was destroyed. This is called the Life Spill.
March 2024
Environmental and psychological plagues sweep the City. These effects are generated from an unknown source.
March 2024
Grisha causes a tsunami, which floods Lavalle Port, killing thousands and destroying the port. Later, the Obscured City is flooded.
March 2024
Vail is attacked by a large group of resistance fighters from the Seeds of Rebellion who have developed biochemical weapons to defeat it.
April 2024
Autumn Prairie resigns as Councilmember of Red Hook, which then becomes the first citizen-governed district in the City.