Roseland (Pre-Crisis)

Lovecraft Country

### Aliases

The Home of The Supernatural and Assassins, Amityville, Lovecraft Country, The Doorway Between Earth, The Port City of Hell, Coolsville

## Creators & First Appearance

### Creators

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The west coast's hub of supernatural and unexplainable events **Roseland** is a port city that is northwest of Seattle and north of **Emerald Falls**, being one-third of the cities that make up the Seattle-Roseland-Emerald Falls metroplex. Created in 1925 by Kirk Roseland, the once simmering city transformed into a bustling metropolitan city that is constantly hounded by investigative reporters and tourists who come to see the paranormal. While the official story is that Roseland is a simple Pacific Northwest metroplies, it is secret a hotspot for the supernatural. The other side of this coin is that Roseland became a hub city for mercs and assassins.

## **20th Century**

Kirk Roseland was the son of a wealthy sailor who adopted him and saved him from poverty. However, when Kirk was twenty-three, their yacht capsized in Puget Sound. Faced with certain death, Kirk was saved by Vodyanoy, a supernatural being from the stars. Vodyanoy ushered him to safety on the shore of Cultus Bay. After his adoptive father left Kirk with all of his riches in his will, Kirk returned to where he washed ashore. Kirk used his immense wealth to create Roseland. From its inception, the small city thrived. Kirk drew people to the town with stories of the supernatural. However, Kirk suddenly lost his mind and died in the town's square fighting an invisible being in 1945.

This caused the town's popularity to surge, booming with residents, believers, and non-believers. However, this brought great darkness to the town as its residents and life-long citizens died from unknown causes en masse. This became a pattern as every second generation committed suicide or died from causes unnatural. The darker side of this is that Roseland became notorious for being a port city for assassins and mercenaries. This led to FBI Agent, Dal Sterling investigating the town in 1965. His investigation revealed harrowing events in the town such as the Vodyanoy being the invisible being that killed Kirk for revenge on bringing humanity to his home, a celestial being residing underneath the city square, Amity Park, and an unknown lighthouse that came into being without anyone realizing it and its ties to a death cult known as Mystalin.

He would record all of his findings daily via his tape recorder for one hundred and ninety-five days and send them to his assistant in Washington, D.C. However, Dale went missing after entering into, what he dubbed, The Ebony Lighthouse in 1975. His last tape, and his last words, sent to his assistant, revealed the following:

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After Dale's disappearance, the town would return to normalcy but with a few cases of the paranormal but by the 1990s, many of these stories would become urban myths and rumors on the internet. The town's population still continued to rise but this was just because of good minimum wage and low cost of living.

### **21st Century**

By 2000, everything supernatural that originally made Roseland boom had been replaced by tech job opportunities, a prestigious college, and a fantastic nightlife. The city was booming and cases of the supernatural variety were seen as misadventures or hoaxes, chief among them being several reported counts of people going missing in Amity Park.

However, it wasn't until 2020 that these case saw an extreme surge with the arrival of Kid Eternity. Here, the general public learned of the existence of ghosts, ghouls, phantoms, vampires, werewolves, primordial beings, and more. However, the most harrowing of revelations was that Dale Cooper was right as Amity Park housed a extra-dimensional doorway into a mysterious plane of existence dubbed "The Ghost Zone" by civilians. The town's populatority surged as people came from all over to see if the stories were true or to even get a glimpse at Kid Eternity. Reluctantly, The RPD began to work with Kid Eternity and later, Black Canary on several of these cases but in the end, they began to see them as heroes. Here, the media gave Roseland a new nickname. *Lovecraft Country*.

## **Layout**

The city, if viewed from a map, is constructed like a circle and is divided up into four parts that all converge at the center which is Amity Park. The map analogy will be used to explain all four parts of the city.

On the bottom right, this section of the city is known as **Bossanova** and is known for its artistic scene. Here are artists, musicians, and actors are located. This houses The Stine Theater, Leland College of Music, and The National Music Museum. It is also here that all of Roseland's nightlife resides with some of the most notorious bars such as the Rusty Nail, Club 666, and Lowtown.

On the bottom left, this section is known as **Yoodootown** or simply **Voodoo**. This is where several individuals reside who claim to be mystics. While many people don't believe them, Constantine and Detective Selen Matthews have contacts here who practice magic. This is where the city's cemetery, Kirk Cemetery, resides and is often used to call upon spirits in ritualistic spells. This is where many tourists travel and where Chas Constantine currently livs. This section is also connected to Cultus Bay.

On the top left, this section is **University Square** or **Uni Square**. This is where the prestigious Roseland State University resides along with the city's shopping centers and outlet malls. This part of the city is the most technologically advanced with experimental technology being implemented every day. It is the least supernatural section of the city as it deals with more street crime than any other part of the city. This is where Black Canary resides and protects.

Lastly on the top right, in this section is **Maxwell**. This part of the city is where the rich citizens reside and to compensate for that, this is also where the more high-end restaurants and hotels are. This section houses the Falls Incorporated Roseland tower, King Enterprises tower, and where Demetrius Jackson resides if he comes to town. The section gets its name from the Maxwell Tower, which is in the center of this section.

At the very center of the city, there is Amity Park which is the central point. It was the first location established by Kirk Roseland and has a statue of him erected in his honor.

## **Trivia**

* Demetrius hates the city because of it's supernatural undertones.
* Audrey prefers this city to Emerald Falls.