Lane County is one of the 36 counties in the state of Oregon. It is named after General Joseph Lane, Oregon's first territorial governor. The county seat is Eugene, which also happens to be the third-largest city in the state. Outside of the Eugene-Springfield area the county is primarily forestland, creating a unique urban-rural divide.

Stretching from the Cascade Range to the Pacific Ocean, the county has a total area of 4,602 square miles; roughly the size of the state of Connecticut. As of 2021 the county has a total population of 389,103, making it the fourth largest county in the state by population and the sixth largest by area.

There are 12 cities in Lane County:

Coburg
Cottage Grove
Creswell
Dunes City
Eugene
Florence

"This is bullshit! Where's my lawyer! Where's my phone call!"

"Typical," the cop said, "always wanting to be on your damn phone."

It was an air-conditioned, fluorescent-lighted room with a mirror, a chair, and a short folding table. Was probably in the early evening, not that there was a clock or a clue about the outside world from the interrogation room. I was seated in front of the two cops who had brought me in, one balding and seated, and the other heavy-set and standing menacingly…

Foreword

This was revealed to me in dreams. I saw the sum of all Games, as it was recorded at the end of times. I saw the games, and all the glory and misery they caused. I saw wars, both metaphorical in the board and literal in the fields. I saw flame, greed and hunger taking out three-quarters of all lives, and the remaining quarter quarreled over which pieces were canon and true to the game, alluding to millennia of changes, adaptations and replication. I saw men and women fight