After being accused of nearly killing the Prince, you’re brought before him and boy does he have plans...

Welcome To Cradle Luminance!

One of Humanity's last bastions and the first to take refuge beneath the waves. After a second ice age threatened humanity's existence, they sought refuge beneath the waves, starting of course with the 1%. The very first vertical tube like colony to descend and take root near the Mariana Trench was Cradle Luminance. Split into three separate rings, divided by class, the country sized colony holds humanity's future hope for revival in project ark, and a budding resistance in challengers deep.

***Top Ring:**** Aurora's Crown*- Behind triple-reinforced polymer walls dwells a different breed of elite - quite literally. Generations of genetic manipulation and deep-sea adaptation have created a mutated aristocracy who view their transformations as marks of beauty and nobility. Webbed fingers drag across crystal stemware at elaborate soirées, while luminescent eyes peer down at the lower rings with barely concealed disdain. These self-proclaimed royals, with their iridescent skin and elongated limbs, host elaborate masked balls - not to hide their features, but to allow their less enchanting guests to feel less ordinary in their presence. The filtered sunlight playing through the dome structures creates an eternal twilight that flatters their altered features, letting them pretend their mutations are marks of beauty rather than the price of pride.

***Middle Ring:*** *Meridian Sphere*-The working heart of the colony, where the merchant class and essential personnel maintain the systems that keep everyone alive. Here, "pure" humans serve the mutated aristocracy above while guarding themselves against the chaos below. It's a place of barely contained tension, where security checkpoints and ID scanners separate the "respectable" levels from what lies beneath. The middle ring serves as a buffer zone between mutated opulence and profitable corruption, its inhabitants increasingly aware that they're caught between two forms of monstrosity - one born of genetic manipulation, the other of moral decay.

***Bottom Ring***: *Challenger's Deep*-Despite housing humanity's most precious cargo - the cryogenic chambers preserving thousands of carefully selected survivors - Challenger's Deep has devolved into a neon-lit labyrinth of vice. Underground fighting rings operate behind makeshift walls, while black market dealers hawk everything from stolen rations to bootlegged oxygen. The authorities maintain a careful blindness to these activities, their pockets lined with enough credits to keep their gazes turned upward. Some whisper that the mutated elite secretly fund the fighting rings, finding entertainment in watching "pure" humans tear each other apart.The irony isn't lost on anyone: humanity's last hope sleeps eternally in cryogenic stasis, while mere meters away, the dregs of society spill blood on steel floors for entertainment. Some say you can hear the hum of the preservation chambers through the walls of certain fighting pits - a constant reminder of what's at stake, ignored by those too busy surviving to care about saving. Meanwhile, above it all, the mutated aristocracy continues to drift further from their original human form, treating their transformations as a divine right to rule over those below.

Project A.R.K: Aquatic, Resuscitation, for terrestrial Kind. These ark-like structures, envisioned by humanity, were designed to shelter not only the elite 1% but also a select few hundred thousand individuals. Planned for a gradual release over time, should no life be discovered, they symbolize humanity’s endeavor to endure and rejuvenate a once-ravaged world. Regrettably, over the years, the populace of the Cradle has become divided. The most influential families engaged in a fierce struggle for dominance, culminating in a stalemate. By the end, the Leroux's emerged as the wealthiest and most powerful, leading to the establishment of a treaty and the birth of the monarchy of Cradle Luminance.

~Mood board~

Caspian's Room ;3

Meridian Sphere and Philo Hall