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Seven Dials is where seven streets come together, converging in a junction around a pillar in the West End of London. It is also the territory of The Seven Seals.

Description[]

I-4 is built around a pillar on a junction close to Covent Garden's black market. On the pillar there are six sundials. The district had originally been designed with six streets, hence the absence of a seventh face. Locals now think of the pillar itself as the missing dial. The dials have blue faces with golden engravings. I Cohort is the central cohort, where the syndicate is strongest. Seven Dials was a slum in pre-Scion days, so it has many miserable spirits drifting around the pillar waiting for a new purpose. The headquarters of the Seven Seals gang is The White Binder's Den on Monmouth Street.

One of the most popular places in I-4 is a cookshop called Chateline's. It's down the street from the White Binder's Den. Chateline's, also known as Chat's, is one of the few places that the Seven Seals can eat out. It's a classy bar-and-grill in Neal's Yard. A tiny, inconspicuous alleyway leads to Neal's Yard, a hidden nook between the buildings of Seven Dials. Chateline's owner is Chat. He has a standing deal with the gang that in exchange for tipping him well, he won't tell the Vigiles what they are. His tip costs more than the meal, but it's worth it for a night out. Chateline's "interior is beautiful in a moth-eaten way, an ode to lost grandeur. Patrons crowd the tables, which are lit by wax candles."[1] Booths ring the space. It's open all night.

The black market has been the hub of illegal trading for decades. It's entirely voyant and secret. Its entrance is opposite Covent Garden, inside a second-hand clothes shop. The market is situated between Covent Garden and Long Acre. It's an underground cavern of about fifteen thousand square feet. Stuckeley Street is a concrete playground near the White Binder's Den where Nick trained Paige to fight and climb when she first joined the Seals. Piccadilly Circus contains the transmission screen for the section. Book Mews is a deserted alley just north of Seven Dials, and the I-4 dead drop. Giles's Passage is the passage from the den to Book Mews. Drury Lane is the location of an abandoned music hall. Tower Street is right by the den and contains an electrical substation that Warden sleeps in after escaping Sheol I and before his kidnapping. West Street is less than a minute from the den and is the location of the showdown between Anne Naylor and Sarah Metyard. It was formally known as Chick Lane. Raconteur Street is a shopping area. The doss-house Paige rents a room in for Warden after rescuing him from the Rag and Bone Man is on Silver Place. The Holborn Viaduct is a flyover bridge that crosses a main road and is one of the entrances to the Beneath.

Notable Locations[]

  • Monmouth Street
  • Neal's Yard
    • Chateline's
  • Long Acre
  • Covent Garden
    • The Black Market
  • Book Mews
  • Piccadilly Circus
  • Slingsby Place
  • Shaftesbury Avenue
  • Goodwin's Court
  • Stuckeley Street
  • Tower Street
  • Nelson's Column
  • West Street/Chick Lane
  • Holborn Station
  • Gile's Passage
  • Goodge Street
  • Bruton Street
  • Raconteur Street
  • Silver Place
  • Holborn Viaduct
  • Drury Lane
    • Music Hall
  • Soho
    • The Minister's Cat
    • Soho Square

Notable Inhabitants[]

Trivia[]

  • Jaxon has Chat paint the sun dials in Scion's colors of red, white, and black with silver anchors in the middle to try and keep Nashira and Scion from locating the Seals.

References[]

  1. The Pale Dreamer: Chapter 4
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