| We could tell you we wanted to create
a city that was real in its daily aspects but that couldn't be located
in any real place (a city that didn't exsist, then), but why make
it so difficult?
The truth is that when we started writing we hadn't the smallest
idea of which place was the one our heroes were living in, better
say that we saw it like the cities we live in. So what turned out
was an hybrid of the two cities. We call it Milenze but it hasn't
a real name and it's located in a place not quite precised.
What we know for sure is that this city is a metropolis, maybe
more similar to an american city that an italian one.
There are big malls, mega-bookstores, and skyscrapers but also small
shops and historical palaces with frescoed ceilings. There are natural
parks just out of the city and we know it is linked with cinematographic
industry.
We can find a financial area and a most residential one, then a
group of nightclubs from which the Darkness stands out for originality.
Street names are instead all italians. Anyway, there wasn't a project
to create a real map of this city. Mainly because it isn't useful
and then because the story develops inside one street where people
came and go between two palaces.
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