A populous city, widely considered the safest place to live in the entire country on account of the mountains that surround it on all sides but one, the southern, and even on that side the city maintains heavy fortifications. Guard patrols enforce a curfew within to keep riffraff off the streets. Such as Hildy and Claudette, for instance.

The city's principal feature is the crystal hawk sculpture at its center, representing the city's patron goddess Solanna. Above and away from the statue, mounted atop the steeple of Solanna's church, is a large glass which, once a day, focuses the sunlight into a beam that reaches the sculpture and diffracts into a spectacular display of colored light. This event is the occasion of the city's daily admiration and prayer, observed in the customary prostrated position.