Restless Metropolis

The Restless Metropolis is a huge techno-city situated within a continental landmass.

## Lore

Restless Metropolis, also known as Nocturna City, is the largest city known around Mushroom World. All kinds of people live here: Toads, Crystallings and even other species. With a lot of corporations, mainly the newfound megacorp Prisma, this city has been developed massively in terms of industry, agriculture and service. And with the new modernization attempts, this city has become what most people refer to as "The City that Never Sleeps''.

But this city wasn't always highly-developed. The original city was founded by the Jewel Kingdom, under the name of Emraldium. It was a thriving city that relied on the plentiful agricultural and water resources to survive. The city’s population peaked at roughly 600,000 people prior to the city’s slow population decline that terminated in a great war that led to the Grandfall.

With the thriving city nearly deserted and the city’s government fallen, a power vacuum took place that drew human hunters and settlers towards the city in great droves to reoccupy the vacant homes. Soon, people took over the city’s declining agricultural system and began farming crops and sustaining their civilization. They began to move out of the crumbling houses to construct new houses, giving rise to a medieval community with a gigantic castle and many timber-framed homes. They called the new town Noctis, which later became Nocturna.

With every new generation the city emerged out of its medieval prison and slowly modernised itself. The castle phased out of its original purpose as a defensive structure and became a wholly residential structure. Many new innovations emerged, from textile mills to brick-built homes, colossal factories to gigantic skyscrapers.

As time went, many suburban towns sprung up. These towns varied in character, but many housed small firms and sometimes even important people. Suburbia was born and became the chief residential powerhouse.

Fairly late in its lifespan, enormous megacorporations sprung up from humble origins, from Bismuth Inc. to Lapis Hydropower to New Horizons to Prisma to Moondust. Amethyst Industries was born from the megacorporations’ ignorance of the city’s reemerging crystalling population, and later became a small business which was so successful and powerful that it was purchased by Bismuth Inc. as a companion firm. When Bismuth Inc. sold Amethyst Industries, numerous crystallings flocked to the firm to seek work they desperately desired.

Bismuth Inc. soon began large-scale restorations of vast historical communities, from Nocturna Castle to the Old City. With this megacorp’s efforts successful, Nocturna City became a massive historical landmark. It became strong enough to even support a volunteer army of chiefly crystallings, whose vigilance is renowned among Nocturnals.

Prisma’s origins were very dark, and started off by selling “magic crystals'', which turned out to be the remains of slaughtered crystallings, mercilessly hunted down and mistreated by Prisma. It was so bad, that the Harvesters were struggling to recover their hard-hit population. It soon began to conquer various markets held by small firms to increase their power and earnings even further. It soon became so powerful that it could support a massive military-sized private army known as the Prism Army.

Lapis Hydropower had always prided itself in hydroelectric power and began building hydro plants in many locations all around the globe, chiefly producing mid-sized

hydropower dams, but also a few megadams. To support its internal economy, it soon founded a fairly small private navy that salvages and restores ships abandoned from other powerful beings, like Bowser, to provide supplemental income and an anti-piracy defense at the same time.

The city nowadays has become a massive cyber-city with neon lighting, colossal highrises and big factories. While much of its historical housing has been lost, its castle survived.