The Wooden Palace is the oldest building in Albasa City. Dating back from when the humans first arrived on this coast. It is recognised as an architectural wonder. It was designed as a monument to civilisation. Its size and complexity were a statement, intended to show the native goblins who lived in a form of morally ambiguous savagery in the swamps the benefits that following the ways of the humans can bring. They taught the goblins carpentry and with it they built water chariots and thrones for their chieftains. The palace was originally home to Komo Hendon the leader of the first expedition. Later it became the seat of government in Albasa. Today that role is filled by the modern City Hall and the palace exists amongst the skyscrapers of Uptown as a tourist attraction and iconic piece of Albasa history.

These creatures slither up from the swamps and live off the trash the cities residents leave in trash cans or out on the street. 

Movie stars enchant on the silver screen. Movies were invented in Mixa and for years the public has watched the beautiful elf actors and actresses enchant them through the modern magic of whirling projectors. But recently Albasa’s own film industry has boomed – making films for Albasa, New Pompa and Donanna whose mostly human populations thrill to see themselves and their stories portrayed on 30ft high moving canvasses. There were those who said people would only want to watch the most physically perfect elves on screen, they have been proved wrong. Stars have arisen, worshipped by the public, obsessed over by their fans. They are joined by a new breed of musical stars made famous by the radio. Wireless sets now even appear in the houses that perch on stilts over the swamps in the neighbourhood of Greenville. The movies are making money. It’s a bold new world of light but also of shadow and in Albasa all kinds of characters lurk in the shadows.

Each neighborhood employs its own team of lamplighters who light the street lights that line most of the main roads of the city. With the exception of some parts of Uptown and Mareston the backstreets and alleyways of the city are unlit adding to their sense of mystique and danger. In Albasa City anything to lurk down a dark alleyway. The lamplighters are not a gang in the traditional sense but will defend themselves as a team if one of their members is attacked. The lamplighters lighting the street lamps at sundown and then putting them out again at dawn. 

Most of the year the weather is hot and humid. The fall sees a rainy season that usually lasts just a few weeks and one month in the winter sees what the locals call 'the bitter'. This can include freak storms and blizzards that suddenly coat the swamps in snow and ice that melts and disappears as quickly as it came. The warm weather helps attract the tourists but some also come for 'the bitter', to witness its sudden wintery beauty. 

The Bitter is known to make the creatures of The Deep Swamp to act strangely. If the Bitter lasts more than a few days that can grow desperate for food and there are rumours that even the giant oar eels used mostly without incident by the goblins will turn on humans and hunt them if they get hungry enough. 

The Flag of Albasa City and State.

An everyday scene in Albasa.