Location from Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
Babylon Restored — formerly Manhattan, now a flooded neon paradise where people live on rooftops, eat glowing fruit, and party under luminescent spraypaint while a water-queen rules from her sickbed.
Babilar is the series' most visually striking setting — a post-apocalyptic paradise that shouldn't work but does. Regalia floods it, Dawnslight feeds and lights it, and the people who live there have adapted to rooftop life with remarkable creativity. It's vibrant, loud, colorful, and fundamentally unstable — the entire ecosystem depends on two Epics, one of whom is dying. The contrast with Newcago is deliberate: where Steelheart's city is steel and darkness and fear, Regalia's city is water and light and something almost like joy. Both are tyrannies. Babilar's is just prettier. The Reckoners' Babilar cell operates from rooftops, navigating by zipline and bridge. The flooded streets below are Regalia's domain — her water projections can appear anywhere there's water, which is everywhere.
Manhattan with its streets flooded to second-story level by Regalia's hydrokinesis. People live on rooftops connected by bridges and ziplines. Buildings are wrapped in Dawnslight's structural roots. Spraypaint on every surface GLOWS with fluorescent color — Dawnslight's passive power turns the city into a living neon canvas. Fruit grows inside buildings, feeding the population. The floodwaters are warm. Fortune-cookie vines hang from awnings. At night, Babilar is a rooftop carnival of luminescent clothing, music, and parties.
Also known as: Babylon Restored, Manhattan, New York