Sangrive

Sangrive is the fictional city where most of the Elsaverse stories take place. Located in an unnamed country in a world oddly similar to our actual Earth, this town has Western-European vibes in its streets. English is the main language in Sangrive, although the British accent is perceived as a foreign one and other languages like French and Spanish are also present. The name Sangrive, which was never mentioned in the saga until the first episode of the AAA (2018) novella, comes from an ancient time when the river that crosses the city ran red with blood.

Throughout the different games and stories, Sangrive is shaped accordingly to the narrative needs, and at this point, it can be pictured as a fairly large city. For instance, Dreaming with Elsa (2015) describes how a publishing company needs several delivery men driving different routes on a full-time basis to supply the local bookstores; from Redemption for Jessika (2016) it can be inferred that the city is large enough to not only have a thriving music scene but to allow the members of an uprising local rock band to comfortably live off their gigs in town for thousands of fans long before gaining national fame; Finding Miranda (2016) mentions that the city is home of several casinos; in Darkness Falls (2018-2019), detectives Nathaniel Blake and Michelle Won visit the local university while fighting a relatively high crime rate; they also check the city's busy docks and a nearby international airport in the short story Won: Darkness Within (2019), in which two different street gangs, the Rats and the Snakes, are also mentioned.

However, what makes Sangrive a unique city was a secret room hidden in a mansion's basement on the outskirts: for more than thirty years, an interdimensional portal to a parallel world had been kept open, and it leaked some kind of mysterious energy that made some young people born and raised in the city develop unnatural abilities. However, the portal was closed shortly after Morland Reyes, the mansion's owner and a powerful tycoon, went missing.

During the time period covered in Elsaverse's stories, the city suffered a couple of tragic major events: first, a riot at a rock concert caused five deaths; then, about a month and a half later, a bombing attack hit a Mayor Bertradino's rally, causing several victims. Coincidentally, it's commonly agreed that the singer in that dire concert, a local woman named Jessica Springfield, prevented the terrorist attack from being even more tragic, as her voice calmed down most of the audience. The Sangrive PD's inability to find the perpetrators and a campaign strongly focused on the police general incompetence helped candidate Anne Kruin to defeat Mayor Bertradino in the voting, thus becoming the new City Mayor.