Hellsalem's Lot

The subject of this article might also be known as “Jerusalem's Lot” Hellsalem's Lot (ヘルサレムズ・ロット, Herusaremuzu rotto), often abbreviated as HL, is a city shrouded in fog that borders with the Beyond and where Blood Blockade Battlefront’s story takes place.

Origin
Three years ago, on January 1st, a gate to the Otherworld opened in New York City in an unprecedented event that came to be known as The Great Collapse. Casters from both the Human world and the Beyond gathered to halt the collapse by raising a Barrier and thus preventing the disaster from spreading.

During the course of that single night, NYC was destroyed and rebuilt as Hellsalem’s Lot. The origin of the collapse remains unknown.

Layout
The city is an island that has a circular layout and is surrounded by the sea and an endless waterfall in which lives a giant kraken, and a single bridge guarded by two beyondians connects HL to the outside. The fog that hangs over the city and the kraken make entry from the outside difficult.

The areas farther from the centre, which still have remains of NYC, were named by humans as “this side”. The zones closer to central HL are enveloped in a dense fog and become more distorted and weirder. At the center of the city is The Eternal Nothingness.

The city’s zones shuffle from time to time, referred to as the “Zoning Lottery.”

Present
The city, enveloped in fog emitted from the gate, is host to both humans and otherworlders, with humans making up one-third of the population and living mostly in the outer parts of the city.

Paranormal phenomena are an everyday occurrence, and criminal and illegal organizations thrive in the city.

Locations within the city

 * The Eternal Nothingness
 * Yggdrashiad Central Station
 * Ghetto Heights
 * Pandorum Asylum
 * Bradbury General Hospital
 * Diannes' diner
 * Morzo Guazza