Vione is a planned settlement having benefited from the vision of an overzealous entrepreneur with a mass of accumulated wealth. The settlement was originally planned to be a utopia of sorts demonstrating the amazing marvels that were possible when science, technology and magic were combined. Unfortunately, what looked good on paper began to fall apart once the realities of limited resources and greed caught up with the project. The Academy was the only part of the city to remain fully intact after the financial collapse and it soon took over the city's needs for a governing body. Vione is NOT part of the Ethian Empire.