Roxbury
Southwest of Boston proper is Roxbury, the neighborhood most associated with poverty, crime and urban desolation. In the ’70s, Roxbury was the poorest and most blighted of Boston’s surrounding communities, but even it is now benefiting from Boston’s general upturn as well as the wave of gentrification that began in the mid-’90s. The recovery is slow. Of the three neighborhoods, Roxbury had the least to interest buyers who might start the wave of gentrification and the most to discourage them. If one Boston neighborhood is avoided more than any other, this is it.
Roxbury is also the home of Mama Desta, a powerful Boston Tremere lich. Mama Desta oversees a network of children whom she pays to use as pawns. A large minority of Roxbury’s children are in Mama Desta’s employ, and it’s unlikely that other mages will be able to get around Roxbury unseen unless they use magic.
Sanctums
The Emerald Scroll - the Dead Wrens’ grungy watering hole
Shangri-La - the rundown tenement housing the Company
Notable Residents
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