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When characters from canons not related to the Warriors Orochi franchise arrive in Orochi's dimension, they bring with them a small piece of their home worlds. These pieces can be as small as a single building on up to a maximum of five square miles. The new territories are placed at the worldbuild team's discretion, and may either be in the middle of the map, on the edge of the dimension to increase its size, or melded into an existing territory.

Only the first character from a given canon is able to suggest the size and makeup of their home territory, using the form located here. The larger a cast, the more likely they can suggest additions or alterations to their native territory, at the same page.

This page serves as a directory of the "new" canon territories added to the Orochi dimension through player involvement. The information in this directory is considered game canon, superceding anything requested via the forms on the New Canon Request page.

For additional information on the base setting of the Orochi dimension (the Dynasty/Samurai Warriors lands), you want this page. For information on the Main Camp and other miscellaneous setting info, that would be here. The map of all territories is here too!

In Alphabetical Order:

Domino City
Kokuyo
Lower Manhattan, damaged
*Avengers Tower, inside Manhattan
Reformatted Cybertron
Shimabara, a district of Kyoto
Tokyo district, circa 1920
Vigil's Keep and the Deep Roads entrance
Yase Village

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Name: Shimabara
Canon: Hakuouki
Image Links: One, Two, Three, Four
Size: approximately 1 square mile, covering several city blocks
General Description: Shimabara is the red-light district in Kyoto, home to all manner of entertainment establishments from the high-class to the...not-so-high-class, according to the limits of one's wallet. The buildings are primarily wood, many are two stories with balconies facing the street, all with clay tile roofs and shoji screens protecting the doors and windows. In between the buildings away from the streets, some of them have courtyards with small gardens and trees. At night, the entire district is lit up with garish lanterns and geisha may appear in the windows to attract customers. Some of the higher-class establishments have beautiful silk paintings and tapestries inside, even the shoji screens are painted, and serve their customers with finer implements.

Near the edge of town, on the far end opposite the gate, some of the buildings have begun to sink into a small lava field. Their stone foundations are saving them from being completely engulfed, but it looks and feels like the village dodged a bullet somehow.

Tech Level: Pre-westernized Japan, so no electricity or indoor plumbing.
Magic Elements: None
Flora/Fauna: Possibly stray cats chasing rats, a few songbirds. Sparse gardens and a few trees in the courtyards.
NPCs Around 50 or so working in the entertainment fields of gambling and prostitution.
Special Notes: None listed.

Edited 2013-02-28 02:15 (UTC)

Name: Lower Manhattan
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe*
Image Links: example
Size: 2-3 square miles, give or take, encompassing the tip of the island of Manhattan, the financial district, and several famed neighborhoods. A small part of the harbor is included.
General Description: Basically the area in Downtown Manhattan that Loki and the Chitauri attacked in The Avengers. It is basically almost identical to the "real world" NYC but with the addition of Avengers Tower as the central beacon of that part of the city. The neighborhoods included are the financial district, Battery Park, SoHo, the East Village and West Village. Most of it is commercial land, not residential. A wiki link has been provided, but note that this smaller chunk of the city is the area primarily south of 14th Ave and not necessarily reaching all the way to the Hudson or East rivers. There is a small piece of New York Harbor near Battery Park included, but it now rests against a lake instead of the ocean.

The buildings are immense skyscrapers, and aside from Battery Park, there is very little green space. Streets are choked with vehicles of all kinds, including taxis, but the subway system did not make it into this dimension. There are no boats in the harbor as of right now. Of special note is that the whole area of downtown is riddled with lava fissures, suggesting that two different tracts of land have been shoehorned together in the same spot. Instead of a large building called Stark Tower, there is a different building in the exact spot where it should be, called Avengers Tower, and there are other small hints around the whole area that it actually comes from an alternate universe - similar, but not exactly the same.

Tech Level: fully modern-day Earth (2012)
Magic Elements: none
Flora/Fauna: the only real natural area is Battery Park, with trees, lawns, and gardens. In some of the northernmost neighborhoods there may be some trees and shrubs. Squirrels, rats, and pigeons are about it for animal life, anything normal to a cityscape.
NPCs several hundred, primarily civilians who either live in one of the northern neighborhoods where there are a few residences or folks who work at Wall Street or other downtown businesses who weren't able to escape from work. Fewer than would have been in that area of Manhattan on a normal city day. There may be a few police officers and low-level government officials.
Special Notes: there is considerable damage at street-level, with some chunks taken out of some large buildings, leaving huge blocks of rubble in the streets. The area of damage is most pronounced near Avengers Tower and along some of the more well-known thoroughfares, in the financial district. It's like some kind of massive battle between the forces of good and evil recently took place here!

*note, the larger territory of Lower Manhattan has been melded with the Tower complex from the 616 continuity. The two zones clashed, and the Avengers Tower thrust up into the middle of the MCU area in an imperfect combination of lands.

Edited 2013-02-26 04:43 (UTC)

Name: (Reformatted) Cybertron
Canon: Transformers
Image Links: ignore Optimus
Size: approximately 1 square mile, not exact
General Description: A rocky metal terrain, with a flowing river of lava. There's a few natural 'structures' - for lack of a better description - of jagged metal spikes fanning up from the ground, but the entire area seems wild. Primordial. Unknown, even to those who may have been once familiar with the area. No buildings.
Tech Level: None. Though occasionally there may be a subtle energy burst, there's nowhere near enough to cause anything more than an occasional (mostly harmless) crackle across the surface. Where's that energy coming from? Good question...
Magic Elements: None
Flora/Fauna: None at all.
NPCs None
Special Notes: The small energy bursts are nothing that will damage person or property, they mainly add flavor and an otherworldly sense to this small piece of wild land.

Name: Domino City
Canon: Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters
Image Links: a montage of locations
Size: no more than 3 square miles in total, though something has happened to the city to place unusual districts near each other.
General Description: Domino is a fictional district of what is most likely Tokyo in Japan. A modern (1998) city with a variety of game stores and arcades, a museum and a waterfront. For some reason, the downtown business district containing the huge KaibaCorp skyscraper and the city plaza are very near to Domino's main high school, several residences, and a small, brightly colored game shop called Kame, when they weren't before. Something removed large portions of the city to make landmarks sit next to each other, but there are glowing lava gaps where these pieces of city would be. The waterfront has landed right on the natural shore of the ocean on the eastern edge of the dimension.

The residential areas are very Japanese, with tall apartment buildings and close-together houses. The museum has a more classic look to it. There are a wide variety of normal vehicles on the streets (but older, from the 1980's and 1990's), a lot of bicycles. Despite the helipad on KaibaCorp's tower, there are no aircraft in the area. Any boats in the harbor were destroyed in the cataclysm of coming to this dimension.
Tech Level: "modern," by 1998 standards - but also makes use of advanced holographic technology for gaming purposes.
Magic Elements: none endemic to the land itself
Flora/Fauna: your usual city-dwellers - stray cats and dogs, rats and squirrels, songbirds. Some houses have small yards with spindly trees, and trees line some of the city streets.
NPCs several hundred, either living or working in the area, all civilians. The Kame game shop seems to be deserted, though, perhaps the owners were out of town when the cataclysm hit.
Special Notes: There are Duel Monsters advertisements everywhere, making it look like this thing is practically a religion. Also, the museum has a huge Egypt exhibit in it that includes some items that other characters from this canon may recognize.

Name: Yase Village
Canon: Toki no Kizuna
Image Links: One, Two, Three, Four
Size: a small village - just a few acres in size, but also includes a wooded area around it
General Description: The area consists of a few traditional Japanese houses, surrounded by lots of trees and a forest. The buildings are not primitive, they are actually very well-kept and the one that presumably belonged to the head of the clan is very polished and beautiful inside. Simple, yet elegant. There is also a torii at the entrance and a path that leads to it.
Tech Level: It's 1600, no electricity or anything
Magic Elements: There's a barrier that is supposed to keep intruders out, however, it doesn't seem to be working properly in the mystic energies. Sometimes it's up, sometimes people can slip through it easily by accident.
Flora/Fauna: thick deciduous woods, mainly birch and maple trees, with high grasses and considerable undergrowth. Plenty of natural wild animals - foxes, rabbits, birds both large and small, the occasional tanuki, and so on.
NPCs strangely, none. Something happened to them, they weren't able to make it to this dimension. The Suzumori clan has disappeared, or are waiting back in the real world for their village to come back.
Special Notes: None.

Name: Kokuyo
Canon: Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
Image Links: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six
Size: a large building complex and a small parcel of forest around it, just a few acres in size
General Description: Kokuyo is an abandoned zoo that was brought to ruin during a landslide in the past. Now most of it has been buried underground, but one building still remains. One side has a glass-fronted section like a greenhouse, the rest of it is blocky and heavy-looking. Inside, the stairs are crumbled and there is lots of rubble everywhere. This only has one way to reach a higher level - a ladder - but it also has a basement that can be accessed through a hole in the ground. The upper level (third floor) was a cinema and could be fixed to remake it into a cinema area if reels can be found/asked for. Otherwise, it's a pretty big living space with a stage and rotted curtains. Outside there is a courtyard of paved stones, also broken and crumbled.
Tech Level: modern-ish, yet in ruins
Magic Elements: None
Flora/Fauna: there is a natural forest surrounding it, very thick, with a mixture of trees and the usual expected wild animals and birds living in it. Nothing larger than a deer.
NPCs none
Special Notes: None.

Edited 2013-02-25 07:12 (UTC)

Name: Vigil's Keep and the Deep Roads
Canon: Dragon Age: Awakening
Image Links: Keep, Throne Room, Basement, Deep Roads
Size: the keep itself is only a few acres in size. The roads may go on for miles into neighboring territories, it is unknown at this time
General Description: Ye olden fortress village, walled and made of stone. Vigil's Keep is a castle fortress - a walled castle town with one main castle and a few surrounding buildings, including a forge, a shop, a jail and some houses. Nothing special. What is special about the place is that the basement links into the Deep Roads, underground roads dug by the dwarves all over Thedas, the Dragon Age world. The roads aren't just tunnels, they're crafted with care, but the ones connected to the Keep have fallen into disrepair.
Tech Level: medieval level - primitive yet functional
Magic Elements: low - the keep is merely a fortress, not a functional magical location, and the dwarf roads were not made with magic.
Flora/Fauna: Standard European foliage and fauna (trees, underbrush, flowers, animals small and large, birds). Some other not-quite-earth examples are blight wolves, giant spiders, and perhaps a nug or two. The blight wolves and spiders are dangerous and should be approached with caution, but the nugs in the tunnels are no problem. I hear they're good eatin' too.
NPCs a handful, mainly artisans working the forge and shops. No mages, but there are probably a few local guardsmen and sentries - not a strong fighting force by far.
Special Notes: the main interior of the keep and the walled portion of the village are intact. Beneath the keep, it looks like some of the Deep Roads go on through Orochi's land, but it's hard to say - there are great fissures of lava open right across them, blocking the way. Others are blocked by rubble. If someone can excavate these tunnels, or find a way of quenching the lava, the Deep Roads would be available to be explored to see just how far they go.

Name: Avengers Tower
Canon: Marvel (616 continuity)
Image Links: One, Two, and a wiki link
Size: several city blocks - a large building complex. Some additional small items included in the landscape.
General Description: Big swanky office tower that's been destroyed and rebuilt a couple of times. 93-story Main Tower flanked by a 35-story South Building and 55-story North Building and is comprised of some of the most advanced technology in the world and the finest materials. At the top of the building is Heimdall's observatory placed there by Thor as a sign that Asgard and Earth are allies. Ordinarily it would be located in Midtown Manhattan, but something happened and it now sits in Lower Manhattan at the position where Stark Tower should be. In essence, this portion of the city became melded with the Manhattan of the 616 Marvel continuity, so while much of it is the same modern NYC, this tower is the most notable evidence that the two have been mixed. There are other signs, see the special notes below.
Tech Level: Modern day, but a bit better because people like Tony Stark, Reed Richards and Hank Pym exist
Magic Elements: compatible with magic but unsure if any exist
Flora/Fauna: same as the other Manhattan, with the possible addition of biological samples in the labs
NPCs a handful of Stark's employees that didn't have the good fortune to flee the building before it got yanked through dimensions.
Special Notes: something went horribly wrong in the cataclysm, and pieces of two different Manhattans became combined when both arrived in the dimension and smooshed together. Avengers Tower isn't the only evidence of this - there are also posters and flyers for superhero teams besides the Avengers, advertisements for Stark Technologies that don't match up with the rest of the district, and so on. There are a few singed spots of pavement around the base of the main tower that look more like cooled patches of lava instead of battle damage. It's a mashup that didn't go completely right, so there are also a few lava fissures in the five city blocks to any side of the Avengers Tower complex.

Name: unnamed Tokyo neighborhood from the 1920's era
Canon: Tactics
Image Links: none provided
Size: approximately 1.5 square miles, irregularly
General Description: A Japanese residential district with easy access to trolleys, cafes, restaurants and theaters. Houses are generally 1 to 2 stories with interior courtyards and gardens. The sidewalk and streets are paved, there are tended gardens and all the "modern" conveniences any family might need. Telephone poles along with electricity run down the streets. The cable cars run into a bit of an issue at the edges of the land, since the tracks just abruptly end, but they can travel within the neighborhood. It's probably for the best, since there is a rather unpleasant scorched lava field to the north of the city, left over from when it got smashed up against Edo Castle. That's right, that's the ancient castle from 300 years ago looming over the city on the northeast - but the lava prevents anyone from entering.

Tech Level: 1920's era - electricity and some plumbing, cable cars
Magic Elements: there is a strong presence of spiritual power, particularly around one of the houses. There may be a few very small, innocuous youkai hiding in the area - they're harmless, mainly pests to civilians who can't see them.
Flora/Fauna: as one would expect in a city from that era - stray animals, lots of trees and gardens, little wildlife
NPCs about fifty or so, mostly civilians running the shops and cafes
Special Notes: there is a definite air of the West starting to creep into Tokyo in this era - shops have Western fashions alongside kimono and yukata. Ichinomiya Kantarou's home is here as well.

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Additional Locations Information

Shimabara

Lower Manhattan

Reformatted Cybertron

Domino City

Yase Village

Kokuyo

Vigil's Keep and the Deep Roads

Avengers Tower

Tokyo neighborhood, ca. 1920