Talancir

Work has been exhausting, but the planning for Central City has taken almost as long. It's been an overall good thing for WoD because it'll let me add some inner contention to the UEF.

Central City is unique among the Human city-states because it has a strong, primarily Mobian identity. Its Bunker inhabitants assimilated into the native culture (the Kingdom of Prussia) and very few of its original aspects are left. The city weathered the disintegration of the Holy Roman Empire and led the alliance against the Imperium Francais with distinction. In the aftermath, the Central Eurish Confederation was formed as a protectorate of the UEF as a means to unify the various Mobian states following the dissolution of the Confederation of the Rhine, an Imperial client state.

Founded with the best intentions, the CEC is becoming defunct as its central government becomes increasingly weak and ineffective. A further rivalry between the Osterreich and Central City threatens to split the CEC along factional lines.

For now, political tensions are stable,  but a young, royalist Junker named Otto Von Bismarck is making waves in the Central City legislature. Bismarck's star is in the ascendency, and the emergence of a modern nation-state is only decades away. What this will mean for the rest of the UEF, only time will tell. For the men and women of the mystical societies, Bismarck's future plot will be a major victory for the New World Order and the Technocratic Union. The Ascension War continues...