New East Prydia, or "NEP" as locals call it both with aspiration and occasional disdain, was once a blightful industrial area in the eastern edge of Prydia's dense Calderberg borough. Lynden turned the place into an oz-like urban wonderland of commerce and shiny 21st century pretension. You spot a waiflike young woman among the crowd--The Lynden heiress--daughter of the tech tycoon Warren Lynden. Her wide blue eyes lock on you and you're filled with an almost cosmic warmth. She smiles with a blush. "Oh, Hi!"