The White Valley isn’t a fairy tale land or a bucolic countryside. No, it’s a box. Like any region in EW4, the Valley is tightly enclosed by a huge glass box called the Glass House. Nobody can see it, but it’s there all the same.
Some pretend life in a box is always on and highly connected, a perpetually buzzing experience. Not in the White Valley at least. The place is cold and empty, void of any form of life. Connected or not, life in a box is very organized: within the big box are smaller boxes, made of invisible glass too. A small Glass Box is the only place where life can be created. And anything outside of the box is strictly forbidden, of course.
The empty Glass Box
The White Valley contains five small boxes, scattered along the two rivers: the White River, flowing from the North, and the Clo River, flowing from East to West. The box at the crossing of the two rivers was chosen as the first settlement.
Life in the Valley started on a chilly morning of January, year 01.
The very first act of a Mayor
For every wannabe mayor, the first task is always the same: lay down a road, connect it to the regional highway, and build ten houses. Then lure some poor passing-by folks to move in. And this is exactly what happened here. The Mayor was a bit stingy and only laid down a dirt road to cross the box and lead to the future City Center. Soon enough, caravans moved in and small bungalows were erected. The Mayor added some wind farm for power, a water tower, then built her own personal Town Hall in the reserved space and finally opened a grade school. More people moved in and larger houses appeared as well as a few shops.
Education is key for a bright future!
Further away, factories appeared and provided jobs to the local folks.
Work in progress
And this is how the new town of Santa Bella was founded.
It looks so quiet and so peaceful
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