Beacon Hill

The first European settler in what would become the city of Boston was the Reverend William Blaxton, who arrived in 1617. He lived alone for five years on what is now Beacon Hill before more Europeans arrived. In those days, a number of ley lines intersected on the top of Beacon Hill, and it benefited from excellent resonance. The ley lines have long since dried up or gone underground. Now Beacon Hill alone is home over to 10,000 people.

In the current day, bluntly put, this is where the money is. Old money, well connected and strategically spent, made Beacon Hill what it is today. Although there are suburbs of Boston with higher per-capita incomes, within the city of Boston, Beacon Hill is the site of the city’s most celebrated dynasties and most prestigious addresses. Brick row houses line the narrow old cobblestone streets, and the city’s two biggest parks, the Boston Common and the Boston Public Garden, are here. Many of the city’s power brokers live on Beacon Hill, a very convenient state of affairs for them since the State House Rotunda is only a short walk away.

Beacon Hill is neither trendy nor hip. On the contrary, its aura of Puritanism casts a pall on anything that is not the strict provenance of wealth and privilege.

Sanctums: The Academy and the Temple of the Gryphon

The Brotherhood of the Ineffable Truth cabal maintains the large, walled-in apartment building known as the Academy. The north wing serves as the sanctum of the Exalted Knights of the Gryphon cabal.

Twilight: Empty Anchors

An unusual number of old buildings and residences — now missing in the material realm — appear in ephemeral form in Twilight, as if they are ghosts of their former glories. Odder still, they appear to be empty of any ghosts that might reside in them, as if the buildings were at one time powerful anchors whose ghosts have departed or been destroyed.

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