Eureka

It is 1911 in Eureka, a port city on the Pacific coast of Northern California. The United States is beginning to incorporate the scientific advances of Testla, Curie, and Einstein while taking advantages of the inventions of Edison, Bell, and Diesel. It is a time of growing wealth and industrialization on the West coast. People are moving out of the country into towns and cities to work in factories and send their children to school.

[Many aspects of Obsidian Reign are derived from Deadlands, but Eureka is placed several decades later when civilization has finally reached the West coast.]

Eureka is a boom town of three thousand citizens with a philosophical institute, a modern sanitorium, and thriving industrial sectors. Most of the streets are paved and many houses even have electricity, powered by the new Bradford steam alternators. On a typical day people move about town on foot, bike, or trolly while the skies spit rain.

The rain forests and mountainous terrain surrounding the town contribute to its seclusion. A single road leads out of the town, East toward Redding and branches South toward the mines. Migrants looking for work arrive infrequently but the road is dangerous and barely a month goes by without an attack by wild beasts or night terrors.

Society

All citizens are expected to be polite and gentle to all other citizens. The higher your social class, the higher the expectation.

Eureka society is partitioned into four social classes and movement between classes is very rare and viewed unfavorably.

Laborer

Laborers are porters, miners, sailors, servants, lumberjacks, and the like. They live in squalid conditions do hard labor

- hard labor for professionals and merchants

Professional

- skilled laborers

Merchant

- owns and managed property such as factories or merchant ships

Aristocrat

- generational wealth and responsibility for the well being of all citizens

Geography