Gauntlet Rating: 7
Shroud Rating: 9-8
Banality Rating: 6-7

Artesia is one of the Los Angeles County's Gateway Cities, a cluster of cities in the southeast between Los Angeles and Orange County. Right on the border with Orange County, it is notable for being the home of the region's largest Indian, Sri Lankan, and Bangladeshi populations, and its Little India and Little Bangladesh are home to the loose confederation known as the Deep Springs Court. Though there are Bijali scattered through the region, their stronghold is definitely in Artesia, where the Phoenix Amitabh Hangal and the Crane Jaya Bhaduri act as unofficial shepherds to their flock. Both noted scholars and philosophers, they take great delight in debating each other and anybody else who comes into their circle. They see the differences in their dharmic paths as an invigorating source of discourse rather than irreconcilable dogma. With both paths following the ways of the Hun primarily, they take a vested interest in the human community as well, and encourage others to do the same.

Artesia is part of the fae no-man's land known as the Lost County. It began with a day that lives in infamy for the fae of Los Angeles; on April 5th, 1998, a Dauntain arrived in Santa Fe Springs. He walked right into the freehold of Count Dorel of House Fiona. Many of the count's vassals scattered, the sheer Banality of this Dauntain instilling some dread fear in them, but Dorel knew no fear and neither did his knights. What became of them is uncertain, but many attribute their sacrifice to allowing the escape of the bulk of his court. This Dauntain chose to remain in Santa Fe Springs, presumably residing in the defeated count's own freehold somehow. Nobody is quite certain, but the city has become a mecca for other Autumn People: Autumn Fae, Dauntain, and others have flocked here. Efforts to retain these lands have met with disaster; adventuring bands seeking Kithain and Chimera in trouble are treading into one of the most dangerous areas in Concordia for the fae. Much of Norwalk, Downey, Pico Rivera, and Whittier have also been evacuated by most fae. The Kithain of Los Angeles have taken to calling Santa Fe Springs and the four miles or so around the center of the northern portion "the Dead Zone" and avoid it religiously. Most disturbing of all, nobody can seem to remember the name of the county that Count Dorel ruled over, nor find it on any chimerical maps.