Setting- Frankenstein: book two, City of Night

The Frankenstein series takes place in hot and humid New Orleans, Louisiana in present time. Victor Helios Frankenstein’s parts mostly take place in his mansion and in his laboratory. His laboratory used to be an old Catholic mental hospital, The Hands of Mercy. Victor Frankenstein had revamped The Hands of Mercy, on the inside, to make it so he can create his people, the New Race.
Frankenstein’s mansion is almost like a palace. To him, it is his kingdom and he is the ruler. The mansion is very large and lavish with mountains of luxuries and rare historical pieces. Victor’s mansion is very technologically advanced and very tasteful and expensive. Even his bathroom is fit for royalty. His master suite has two bathrooms, one for him and one for the current edition of his wife, Erika Five. Victor’s bathroom is over sixteen hundred square feet of extravagance, with a steam room, spa, two under the counter refrigerators, an icemaker, a fully stocked bar, a microwave, three plasma screen televisions with Blu-Ray, and a cabinet full of whips. The faucets and other fixtures were gold plated, as was the flush handle on the toilet. The rest of his bathroom retreat is covered in mirrors. All that, and it’s just one bathroom.
There are many, many rooms, passageways and hallways in the Helios’s mansion. There is a library stocked with fine literature from over the centuries. All the furniture in the mansion is fancy, expensive and/ or a priceless antique. Victor has also acquired some famous, valuable artwork and paintings from some well-known artists. Many rooms and hallways are also adorned with huge, beautiful, intricately woven rugs. The maids, butlers and housekeepers all maintain the grandeur of Victor’s immense manor.
The Hand’s of Mercy, Victor’s New Race manufacturing lab, is also very large. Mercy’s externals to the naked eye are just a broken down and boarded up, long forgotten old hospital. On the inside, The Hands of Mercy is highly technological, spotless and uncontaminated, and swathed in machines and computers. There are several creation tanks from which most of the New Race was birthed. Some of Victor’s other creation are submerged into a nutrient supply bath and hook up to machines so they can survive.
The setting is a very important part in the story. In Frankenstein, the setting really helps create a picture in your mind’s eye. Another city and state wouldn’t change the story too drastically, but it helps in conveying the atmosphere and the mood.