Tophet

Tophet is a town located in Midwestern North America owned by the extremist cult/gang known as the Apollyon. Built some years after the Great Cataclysm, the town served as the headquarters for the Apollyon for many years and was infamous for being the primary hub for its most sadistic practices. To those receptive to the Apollyon's beliefs, Tophet is a town of pleasure and reckless abandon. To those who still retain a semblance of morality, Tophet is a lair of brutality and vileness where the worst acts of the worst of humanity are given a home. Tophet is a notorious fortress into which unfortunate souls are taken by the Apollyon, and are never seen again.

Government

Tophet is ruled absolutely by the Apollyon and its psychopathic ruler, Abaddon. From their headquarters in the town, the Apollyon governs an enormous region of the former Midwestern North America and dozens of gangs of the Carvers in that region.

Infrastructure

Tophet is one of the few remaining established human settlements with proper structures built after the Great Cataclysm. The Apollyon built the settlement to resemble an Old West town with a main street lined by two rows of structures with a primary building at the head. The standard structures of the street are of wood beam and sheet metal construction, shambled and all but collapsing, the best architecture that can be put together from the ruins of human society in the midst of the desert wastes. The original structure of the town, and the building around which the rest of Tophet was built, is the Mansion, where Abaddon himself lives. The Mansion is an enormous, three-story prairie house which burned to the ground on X-Day and was restored by Abaddon and the early Apollyon.

Founders

• Abaddon

Alternative Name(s)

The Devil's Palace

Type

Town

Population

500-1000, est.

Location under

North America

Owner/Ruler

Abaddon

Owning Organization

The Apollyon

Characters in Location

• Abaddon