The Briar Wards
The Briar Wards began centuries ago as one of the overcrowded districts where unwanted Demian families were pushed together. Over generations the slum became a permanent community, then a city district, and finally a place Demians defend with fierce pride even after legal restrictions around them we
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The Briar Wards began centuries ago as one of the overcrowded districts where unwanted Demian families were pushed together. Over generations the slum became a permanent community, then a city district, and finally a place Demians defend with fierce pride even after legal restrictions around them weakened.
Its streets are irregular because they were never planned for one body type. Wide doorways stand beside narrow climbing passages, roofs are used as roads by some lineages, and homes are constantly modified for horns, tails, wings, unusual legs, or other inherited anatomy. Outsiders sometimes call it ugly. Demians tend to hear that as evidence the outsider has missed the point.