The Flats

The "suburbs" of Ravien

The Flats are the "suburbs" of Ravien. Though the reputation of that area is the inverse of what we may expect today. the flats are the endless connecting city-regions that never really became a hub of activity and life like the areas where the Monoliths rose upon themselves over the millennia. They are at best middle-class, and usually closer to borderline subsistance/poverty we'd expect in urban life. They are far more exposed to the brutal elements since there aren't layers and layers of city insulating it like that of a Monolith's interior.

Basically everyone wants to get out of the flats an into a Monolith, and Spire Primus is the biggest and best there is, and your lottery came up and you passed all the paperwork you needed to in order to move.