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Tingen
April 25, 2026 at 04:49 PM
Initial Tingen reference covering districts, landmarks, faction presence, and Crimson Test scope
Tingen (廷根) is the starting city in Lord of Mysteries and the cultural-economic hub of the East Balam region in the Kingdom of Loen. It is a mid-tier industrial city of gas-lit cobble streets, Victorian brick tenements, neo-Gothic cathedral spires, smog-stained workshops, and back-alley occult dealers. In the source material, Tingen is where Klein Moretti, the canonical Sequence 0 Fool, begins his Beyonder journey; the game preserves the city as the introductory setting for the player's own Beyonder.
The Crimson Test (February 2026) ships Tingen as the only fully playable city. Backlund is built and previewed but reserved for later progression. Most early-Sequence content (story, side quests, dungeons, faction reputation, vendor commerce) takes place inside Tingen and its surrounding districts.
Tingen is divided into several districts, each with its own visual identity, NPC population, and supernatural-density profile.
Golden Indus Borough: the affluent professional district. Gentlemen's clubs, banking houses, opera halls, and the offices of senior Nighthawk operatives. Low surface anomaly density, high-tier crime when anomalies do break.
North Borough: industrial. Foundries, the railway terminus, dock and canal access, the Iron Cross Street Market. The most varied vendor selection in the city.
West Borough: residential mid-tier. Homes of clerks, shopkeepers, and most quest-giver civilians. The player's introductory residence is in West Borough.
East Borough: poor and crowded. Workhouses, tenements, and the seedier occult bookshops. Higher anomaly density and more frequent dynamic supernatural events.
Central Tingen: the city's political and religious heart. The Hill of the Sun (cathedral district), city hall, the Church of the Evernight Goddess Tingen Branch, and several Sequence-9 advancement chapels.
Outskirts: forested foothills and small farming villages used as field-investigation zones. Several tutorial side quests open Tingen's outskirts before the player even reaches the central districts.
The Crimson Test surfaces three named landmarks adapted from the source material:
Iron Cross Street Market: the open-air market in the North Borough. Beyonder ingredient vendors and a low-tier potion broker.
Gandren Department Store: the city's largest retail destination, a multi-floor anchor in the Golden Indus Borough. Cosmetic vendors, mundane gear shops, and the city's most prominent civilian-side surface quest-giver bank.
Evildoers' Tavern: the rougher Tingen alternative to the canonical Diviners' Tavern. Player base for shadier side quests, alley-fight encounters, and Sequence 9 underworld contacts.
The Nighthawks of Tingen are the most prominent supernatural law enforcement body. They operate undercover as the Blackthorn Security Company, with offices in Golden Indus and a covert lair under the cathedral district. The Nighthawks hold operational primacy in Tingen's North, West, and Golden Indus Boroughs.
The Mandated Punishers field a small auxiliary force in Tingen but mostly route through the larger Backlund detachment. The Seven Orthodox Churches each maintain at least a chapel-and-investigative-officer presence in Tingen, with the Church of the Evernight Goddess having the largest footprint.
Tingen is the setting for the campaign's introductory investigations. Three case lines unlock during the Crimson Test build:
Hill of the Sun Disturbance: cathedral-district anomaly investigation. Introduces the Acting Method and Sequence 9 ritual mechanics.
Iron Cross Smuggling Ring: tracing illegal Beyonder ingredients through the Iron Cross Street Market. Introduces vendor relationships and the brewing system.
Evildoers' Tavern Cellar: a deeper supernatural conspiracy under Tingen's underbelly. The first dungeon encounter the player runs.
In the source material, Tingen is the city where Zhou Mingrui transmigrates into Klein Moretti's body, draws his first Sequence 9 Seer potion under the eye of a senior Beyonder, and joins the local Nighthawks under captain Dunn Smith. The novel's first arc (Volume 1: Clown) is set almost entirely in Tingen and surrounding villages. The game preserves this geography but reframes it for the player's own original Beyonder character; Klein appears in-game as an NPC and the player can witness key novel scenes through the Mr. Fool visions system.
