✱ Parliament
The government head of the city, the Parliament is made up of some 350 members; their building is located square in the middle of the Aristocratic District, pentagonal in shape and incredibly tall. Made of fine quartz brick, the Parliament's building is where the laws of Aefenglom are formed and passed, where high-ranking court cases are brought to be inspected and judged, and where plans for protecting the city are officially made. Many of Parliament were born into wealthy families, and so rarely do any of them have official magical training, having devoted themselves to law books and legislative work instead. Still, they want to do what's best for the city as a whole, and meet daily to discuss things among themselves, and with the Coven's ambassador... though how much actually gets done, between so many people speaking and the priorities of Parliament as a whole, is up to debate.

✱ The Coven
The magical head of the city, the Coven in Aefenglom is the largest branch of the official Coven of Geargadas, and is generally considered its headquarters as a result. In contrast to the rest of the Aristocratic District, the Coven has a wide courtyard all the way around its building, and the building itself is made of serious grey brick and mortar. Despite the foreboding make of the Coven, with its tall towers and iron fences, the Witches (and students) are all quite affable, laughing among each other and getting into any number of accidents in their quest to broaden their magical knowledge. Monsters are more commonly seen in the Coven's grounds than anywhere else as well, due to many of them Bonding to the Witches within - or staying with the Coven until they can find one - as the living conditions there are superior to much else they can afford in the city. Magical gardens spring up all around the Coven with surprising speed and die at much the same rate, giving it an ever-shifting look, and classes are held both inside and out. The leader of the Coven, and often her fully-shifted Bonded, are fairly common sights on the grounds as well.

▪ The Looking-Glass House
A rather nondescript two-story cottage made of grey brick, The Looking-Glass House sits at the edge of The Coven's courtyard; stones which glow as you step on them mark the path to and from the two buildings. While fairly small and plain on the outside, the inside has been enchanted to be the size of a large library, with hundreds upon hundreds of mirrors hanging, standing, and resting inside its walls. Some are broken, some are cracked, and some seem completely uninjured - but all of them are just as plain as the cottage itself, showing age in the silver beneath their glass and in the greening of their metals... Well, all except a character's personal mirror; to characters, one mirror - the one they came through - will be decorated lavishly with metal-and-wood-wrought reminders of home, and the surface will be as clear as a brand-new mirror.

▪ Undermael College
One of the most prestigious schools on all of Geargadas, Undermael College has some of the largest and tallest buildings in Aefenglom - you can even see the spires of the main building from over the Bright Wall, or so it goes. Made of a myriad of different-colored bricks, with each graduating class being given a small section of their own to paint however they want, the college is also one of the most colorful areas of the city. A great deal of good old-fashioned book-learning goes on here, for all types of careers and programs (their medical and mortician programs are particularly good, given Heofonlic Hospital is in the area), and the majority of students are human. A handful of professors that teach here, either adjunct or full-time, also sit in the Parliament; and there are records that can be found in Undermael College that aren't in the Parliamentary Records proper.

▪ Heofonlic Hospital
Made of the same crisp opalescent brick the Bright Wall is built with, Heofonlic Hospital is the biggest and the best hospital in Aefenglom; all other hospitals in the city are branches off of it, and many apothecaries are at least affiliated or sponsored by it. Open to everyone, Heofonlic Hospital prides itself on both its non-magical and magical cures - it has a wealthy amount of Undermael graduates working with medicines, alchemy, and such to cure as much as possible, while Coven Witches specializing in evocation and abjuration do their best to take care of anything else, and those of more magical origin (like the Cwyld) as well.

▪ Parliamentary Records
Located within the Parliament, the Parliamentary Records are an archive that resides both above ground and under it, with vast differences in information available between the two. Above ground, one can find common history of the city, genealogical records, newspapers, recordings, and so forth; while underground, information deemed subjectively as "unimportant" by the Parliament resides. Both sides of the Records are lit naturally, one by large windows of both normal and colored glass variety, and the other by harmless fungus and moss that insists on making its home on bookcases and walls - some even hanging like lacy chandeliers from the archive's ceiling.