New Xanten

## City of New Xanten

The **City of New Xanten**, commonly referred to simply as **New Xanten** and often abbreviated as **NX**, is the most populous city in the United States and serves as the principal setting of *Beast Bané*.

Situated on the southern tip of New Xanten State, the City of New Xanten is composed of four main boroughs — Corazonia, Neo City, Principe, and the Yuga — each one defining a distinct hallmark of the city's culture, human and superhuman-alike. In spite of her sprawling skylines and vast technological marvel, however, the City of New Xanten is established to have one of the worst crime rates per capita in the entire country — as well as a hotbed for corruption, supervillainy, and socioeconomic inequality.

The city proper serves as a pastiche of New York City.

## History

### Origins

The land that would become the City of New Xanten has been inhabited by the Algonquian-speaking Kichippi people since atleast 1100 BCE. In 1517, Pedro Yuga became the first European to set foot on the land when he founded the settlement of New Barcelona in service of the Spanish crown. In 1742 — upon being purchased off the Spanish — the land became a colony of the Greater British Empire, then renamed after the recently-conquered village of Xanten, Germany. By the later half of the eighteenth-century the Colony of New Xanten would become a bustling Colonial American settlement, with the city proper quickly becoming the world's most visited seaports — thanks in no small part to the political tactics of then-governor Matthias Oglethorpe.

In 1763, the tides would turn on the British hold in New Xanten forever when superhuman Kichippi warrior Tem:nawahi led a violent slave revolt in the middle of what is now Downtown Neo, burning the city to ashes and brutally decapitating Governor Oglethorpe. The siege — of which the details are still debated among historian circles to this day — was a key cog in jump-starting the American Revolution and bringing New Xanten into the global sphere of influence.

### Post-Revolution

In 1899, the satellite settlements of Corazonia, Yuga, and Principe — the city iself becoming Neo City — consolidated to form New Xanten as it stands in the present; a charter city comprised of four boroughs.

In the centuries that followed Matthias' demise and the United States of America's newfound independence, the Oglethorpe Family would rise to be one of the biggest players in the New Xanten economy. In 1920, then-Mayor Zander Oglethorpe commissioned the construction of a colossal neoclassical sculpture in the New Xanten Bay that became known as the Statue of Champions and a symbol of American degeneracy.

### The Super Age

As superhumans first began to assimilate in American society following World War II and the growing fears of communism, the pro hero industry would be birthed in the borough of Principe — taking form and shaping world history throughout the '50s and '60s.

## Geography

The City of New Xanten is situated in the northeastern United States, where it meets between the Middle and Yuga River to eventually feed into the New Xanten Bay.

### Boroughs

#### Corazonia

**Corazonia**, also known as **Cory**, is the most populous borough of New Xanten. A half-gentrified, half-forgotten urban sprawl, Corazonia is lauded for being the City of New Xanten's cultural core — be it through her diverse Trinidadian, Russian, and Jewish populations, or through her ever-growing punch addiction crisis.

The borough is analogous to Brooklyn.

#### Neo City

**Neo** **City** is the second-most populous borough of New Xanten. Characterized by her sprawling skylines and bustling financial districts, Neo City houses many of New Xanten's most widely-recognized landmarks, such as the Statue of Champions, Flash Matrix, Raul Park, and the One Elysium Pillar.

The borough is analogous to Manhattan.

**Neighborhoods of Neo City**

#### Principe

**Principe** is the third-most populous borough of New Xanten. As one of the most diverse subdivisions of any city in the entire world, Principe is known for both her ever-expanding ethnic enclaves and for being the home borough of New Xanten International — by far the busiest airport in the country.

The borough is an amalgamation of Queens, Staten Island, and elements of North Jersey.

**Neighborhoods of Principe**

#### The Yuga

The **Yuga** is the least populous borough of New Xanten. Although it maintains a reputation for being the breeding grounds for gang violence (most notably from the Pajaros, who control large portions of the borough) the Yuga is still revered for its large Bonitan presence and for being the birthplace of hip-hop.

The borough is analogous to the Bronx.

**Neighborhoods of the Yuga**

## Chapters

**ACT I**

* The City of New Xanten
* Bané and the Scarabs
* Home Sweet Home
* Erik Bradley
* A New Xanten Wake-up Call
* The Devil Himself
* Early Dismissal
* Godfather Knows Best
* A Song of Bad Decisions
* The Rendezvous
* Mr. Oglethorpe
* Armani Queen
* Gabriel Torres
* A New Xanten Minute
* Bané in the Hospital
* A Phone Call Away
* From the Ashes *(mentioned)*

**ACT II**

* One Rude-Ass Awakening
* Mallory Abecassis
* The Girl They Called Miriam
* Sorry, We're Closed
* Call Me Iannucci
* Blattodea
* Zero II Hero
* Odessa Harper
* Beast Bané v. Blattodea
* Meet the Harpers
* The Cape and the Crook
* Evangeline
* Beast Bané v. Blattodea II

**ACT III**

* Armando
* Resurrection
* My Only Son
* Bané and Odessa
* The World On His Back
* Casper St. Clair
* Iannucci No More
* The Thing About Humans
* A Little Closer to Heaven
* The Final Coda
* Beast Bané

## Trivia

* Much like how New York derives its name from the English city of York, New Xanten derives its name from the real-life town of Xanten, Germany; in the world of *Beast Bané,* the British Empire had conquered what would become Germany by the early 18th century.