Kungsfelthan

A very long time ago, the Kungsfelthan were a forest outside Ildritz where the emperors used to hunt. The forest was made into a park to give more attractions to the emperors party. Fountains were made with artificial brooks to feed the lakes around it, and rich shelters to wait in while it rained outside, and the White Temple, a temple for Gräins, in the middle of the forest. The Kungsfelthan were always out of the gong of the city, but as the city grew, it closed in on the Kungsfelthan. Now, the White Temple is the centre of the Kungsfelthan.
It was then, around 1600 AFO, the first settlers made their dwellings in the Kungsfelthan. These settlers where poor people, who hoped to find a living in Ildritz, but could not afford the gong and thus stayed out of town. In the wealth of the 18th century, more and more people came to Ildritz, and settled in the Kungsfelthan. It became a society on its own.
Many early settlers later made it into town, and left their makeshift dwellings for the new. De Erflanden and Overveer provided many people on the search for luck in Ildritz. But Ildritz herself had some inhabitants who could no longer afford the city and settled in the Kungsfelthan as well. The poor society stayed as it was, with people unable to move into the Ildritz gong, and unable or unwilling to move elsewhere. It was a place for the anonymous, a place for the beggars to spend the night, a place to hide from the Ildritzer government as well.
Some inhabitants of the Kungsfelthan found their own ways to make a living. Many criminals have known to live in the Kungsfelthan, be it that they had to steal for a living or that they stayed there to hide from the kindins. Prostitutes were also found in the Kungsfelthan, from the beginning on. It was for a woman alone the only easy way to get money for food and family. As soon as the whores had taken a steady place in the Kungsfelthan society, more came over from Ildritz and the Place of Purple Lights surrounding the White Temple is now the centre of the capitals prostitution business.

The prostitution alone has made a change in the Kungsfelthan society. It attracts people of a higher standing with more money to spend than the average Kungsfelthian in his entire life. The whores can get very rich by having the upper class as customers, and this causes street gangs to ask money for protection - and the purple ladies are willing to pay because every fight with a street gang brings down their value.
Everybody looking rich enough to negotiate with the ladies is a potential victim of robbery, or even murder. Many men don’t dare to enter the Kungsfelthan at night, although the purple lights make the muddy, narrow alleys much cozier than they used to be. Women from Ildritz don’t dare to enter the Kungsfelthan during day and night. A woman who is spotted in the Kungsfelthan is easily accused of prostitution and adultery.
The harsh life in the Kungsfelthan is drowned in cheap Tuijon, and the bitter perfume of the Aelçim pipes. It is soothed with sweets and candy, with love on sale and a freedom that goes beyond any social empathy.
Or as some say: “Life is cheap in the Kungsfelthan, and death is for free.”

Being outside the Ildritzer gong, public forces are not allowed to act in the Kungsfelthan. Kindins are only send there if a real bad criminal act is suspected. The kindins in the Kungsfelthan are usually field kindins that have a large region to inspect - many among them rather roam the fields than the slums of the Kungsfelthan.
Fire guards do not enter the quarter, and fire is a daily threat to life. Whole blocks of housing can burn down in a day, and surprisingly, on the smoking ruins a new block will arise in just a few days. The dynamics of town planning have an amazing speed in this quarter, and cause many visitors to get lost in the dimly lighted streets, the dark alleys and chains of dirty backyards.