Editing Laureas (section)

==History==
Laureas, named for the laurels of victory, had been the site of an early Crown victory. But something went wrong, and the town declined. People still live there, and it held [[Beattle|a lacklustre Academy]]. <ref>Laureus, named for the laurels of victory, had been the site of an early victory, after the Crown had landed on the fledgling nation’s shores.  But it wasn’t a place that lived up to its name.  The local Academy had lost stature, the city hadn’t proven itself as a pivotal cog in the machine, or something else had gone wrong, and the foundation had rotted. It gave the sense of a place that had been abandoned.  The wooden growths that supported and reinforced local structures now played host to a new ecosystem that enjoyed close proximity to the ocean.  Algae-like slime grew on the wood, and where that slime dried out and died, it provided nutrition for weeds and saplings to find a foothold.  The lights within buildings weren’t strong, with much of it being candlelight and oil lanterns. But people occupied this place.  There was a high concentration of back-alley doctors here, which was starting to make sense, now that I’d been told about Beattle Academy’s approach to student intake and retention. [https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2016/11/08 Excerpt] from [[Bitter Pill 15.1]]</ref>