If you walk along the main avenue, full of assorted dwarf shops and luxurious succubus salons, sooner or later you will go down to the bay, where trolls unload human merchant ships. A melodically murmuring street fountain may be the home of the water fairy nixie, and a moss-covered tree in the park may be a sleeping ent. The city guards include werewolves, drow, and vampires. Dryads in between the chores of caring for their favorite parks easily come to drink a cup of iced tea in the cafe of active fidget fairies.

Lord Alair, slowly walking alongside, made an excellent bodyguard and universal pass: some of the courtiers he...