The Town



"This is a game about boundaries. Humans transcending their own limitations, and the metamorphoses that may await them on that journey: a blood cell or an udurgh, a doll or a living creature, a slave to the circumstances or the setter of new laws. Our town is a unique example of a utopia made real. It’s the cornerstone, the foundation of the game’s entire conflict: “a cataclysm has befallen the worthiest”."

- Pathologic 2 artbook

The Town-on-Gorkhon (Город-на-Горхоне)—a small, remote settlement, lost in the Eastern steppe. It developed from the Bull Enterprise—the town's meat-making industry, owned and operated by the Olgimskys. Unique and isolated, the Town combines various eras of history and all aspects of humanity. According to Vlad the Younger the Town's population in Pathologic 2 is approximately seventeen-thousand people, thirty percent of which live in the Termitary and work for the Bull Enterprise.

Due to it's remote location the Town relies heavily upon supplies from outside sources in order to survive. In exchange for the meat produced by the Bull Enterprise the Town receives shipments of things that cannot be found in the Town such as sugar and medicine. These supplies arrive in the Town through the Train Station. Prior to the outbreak these supplies stop, sending the Town into a deficit for a number of items. The relationship between the Town and it's reliance on outside help is often compared to the relationship between a mother and a child, connected by an umbilical cord - the Station.

The Town is home to a number of remarkable people - such as the Stamatin brothers - because Simon Kain brought them into the Town. He wished to collect brilliant specimens and turned the Town into an Ark in doing so.

Traditions and Superstitions

 * Few people fish in the River Gorkhon for fear of sharp objects like hooks.
 * It is frowned upon to carry sharp objects such and knives and needles at all. Despite this, many still do.
 * Digging well and holes (or otherwise piercing the Earth) is forbidden.
 * Cutting bodies is taboo to everyone outside of a select few people called Menkhu.
 * Before the outbreak, townspeople engaged in a blind bartering game in which they exchanged unlabeled packages.
 * Locals refuse to drink water drawn from the River Gorkhon - due to how unsanitary it is - and instead prefer to drink stored water imported from rivers farther from the Gorkhon.

The Districts
The Town is divided into three areas by two tributaries of the Gorkhon river—the Guzzle and the Gullet. Each quarter has its own name and is divided into several districts.

Earth Quarter
This is the eastern part of town, by the Guzzle.


 * The Tanners
 * The Saburovs' Rod
 * Grocery
 * Pharmacy


 * The Skinners
 * Peter Stamatin's Loft
 * The Termitary
 * The Bone Stake Lot
 * Grocery


 * The Hindquarters
 * Stanislav Rubin's Apartment
 * Anna Angel's Willows
 * Isidor Burakh's House
 * Tailor
 * Grocery
 * Pharmacy


 * The Crude Sprawl
 * Aspity's Hospice
 * The Abattoir


 * The Factory ("Welcome to the machine")
 * Andrey Stamatin's Broken Heart Pub
 * Haruspex's Lair


 * The Cemetery
 * Grace's Lodge
 * The Cemetery

Knots Quarter
This is the middle part of town, between the Guzzle and the Gullet.


 * The Spleen
 * Stairway to Heaven
 * The Nutshell, the temporary residence of Khan
 * Tailor


 * The Marrow
 * Mark Immortell's Theatre
 * Pharmacy


 * The Chine
 * Yulia Lyuricheva's Trammel
 * Pharmacy


 * The Backbone
 * Town Hall
 * Stairway to Heaven
 * Grocery


 * The Maw
 * Vlad the Younger's Vacant House


 * The Flank
 * Lara Ravel's Shelter
 * Grocery


 * The Gut
 * The Olgimskys' Lump


 * The Warehouses ("Only rats live here")
 * Notkin's Soul-and-a-Half Fortress
 * Bad Grief's Nest
 * Stanislav Rubin's Hideout
 * Grocery that ignores any reputation effects


 * The Station
 * The Train Station
 * Murky's Train Car

Stone Yard Quarter
This is the western part of town, by the Gullet.


 * The Cape ("Dream Mistresses sleep here")
 * Victoria's and Nina's Tombs


 * The Atrium
 * Grocery
 * Tailor


 * The Bridge Square
 * The Cathedral
 * The Kains' Crucible
 * Eva Yan's Stillwater
 * Var's house
 * The Polyhedron

The Steppe

 * The Ragi Barrow
 * The Crowstone
 * The Gumstone
 * Shekhen