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Planetary capital, primary starport, and major population center of Helocytus, beneath which lies the Forbidden Citadel of Veins. Providence is a gargantuan, pale-skinned blood tree with deep, crimson veins through which the Blood of God flows, its highest boughs reaching through the upper atmosphere and into the low orbit vacuum of space where vast, star-faring bio-ship creatures are birthed from viscous pods, while the deepest roots of the tree descend through unknown and incredible depths within the crust of the planet and beyond to eldritch sights unseen. Upon its limbs, the Children of the Vein have built their greatest city, with the highest reaches servicing safe harbor, trade, and tourism for all comers, while the lowest depths remain entirely hostile to unmodified or non-native life. All the clan Veins maintain some presence here, though many of the greater Veins have other territories, holdings, and cities across the planet.

You can see it from space - a colossal, bone-white tree breaching through the lower atmosphere of the world, its roots embedded in the crust of what might have once been a mountain range. From a distance, its enormous leaves appear almost iridescent, its foliage displaying every color in the visible spectrum. A constant stream of glittering vessels, both mechanical and biological, make their way to and fro between this towering tree and the jump points of the system like shimmering pollen in a dark void. From the highest boughs and branches, gigantic, swollen amber sacs of amniotic fluid hanging like grotesque fruit writhe and distend with the activity of growing fetal bio-ship creatures half-seen through the semi-transparent skins of their birthing sacs, waiting to burst forth and make their first forays into the deep, dark void for which they were born. This is Providence, the Great Tree, primary starport of Helocytus and holy capital city of the Children of the Vein.

Finally, within the deep, dark depths below the city lies the secretive Forbidden Citadel of Veins, from which the Hemispheres Logos and Pathos govern the Children of the Vein. Little is known of the Forbidden Citadel, but it is said to be from here which the Veins have the closest access to GOD, and the paths to the subterranean citadel are patrolled by wandering, terrible, eldritch creatures from the deepest depths of the planet.

====The Garden of Beasts====