Location from Pale by Wildbow
A small Canadian town of five thousand where the gas station closes at eight, everyone knows whose kid is whose, and the supernatural community under the streets just had its most powerful member murdered.
Kennet is the kind of town that teenagers fantasize about escaping — not because it's bad, but because it's small in ways that feel permanent. The hockey rink smells like cold rubber. The gas stations are landmarks. The mountains bracket the valley like parentheses around a sentence nobody's reading. Beneath this mundane surface, Kennet has hosted a supernatural community for years — Others living alongside humans who can't perceive them, maintaining a fragile coexistence managed by the council. The Carmine Beast's murder shattered that equilibrium. Its blood staining the K-A Arena ice was the visible symptom; the real damage was the power vacuum it created, which attracted territorial practitioners, disrupted the Judges' balance, and forced the community to recruit three human teenagers as investigators because nobody else could be trusted. Post-story, Kennet transforms into an openly supernatural community with a market, council governance, and a magical school — the small town that was always more than it appeared becoming exactly what it always was.
A valley between two mountains with a river crossed by two bridges that rattle when trucks go over. The K-A Arena, St. Augustine's RC Church, the Kennet Pentecostal Church, Ski Bowdler, public school, and Saint Victor's private school dot the landscape. Economically struggling, quiet after eight PM. In winter, everything goes white and silent. In summer, the bugs are relentless.
Also known as: Kennet, The Town