October 27, 2026 · Shadows

Watching NYTE City Take Shape: The Night We Finally Saw the Map

Twenty years of NYTE City living in Deighton’s head, and we finally got to see it — the payoff to the population-mapping research we mentioned a few updates back, now a real, navigable map of the city, built up territory by territory, with the Appalachians running dark down the spine and the combat zones glowing red at night.

There’s a joke about Old New York’s abbreviation that’s now probably canon. There’s a borough that turned out to be nothing but gated communities once we actually looked at it. There’s a lot we didn’t expect to learn from a map.

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