The oldest inhabited center of the city and the closest thing Nod has to a capital district. The Silver Annex sits on the southern shore of Lake Enoch, growing upon and around the bridge that leads to the Tower like a barnacle on a pier. Stone-footed buildings here predate every other structure in the city. Some of them are Carceri. Some have had more modern structures grafted to them, glass towers and steel-framed additions rising from ancient foundations, while others remain exactly as they have always been.
The Council maintains its chambers in the Annex, and the Prefex garrison their primary fortress, the Spire, at its southern end. The Noctis Gate, an ancient and alien structure of unknown material and purpose, stands in the heart of the Annex. It has not opened in recorded history, and where it connects to, if anywhere, is the subject of speculation that the Chroniclers have cataloged without resolving.
The streets are clean by Nod's standards, lit by arcane lamps supplemented with electric lighting that draws on the Council's private power supply. This is an arrangement whose details the Council has never disclosed and which no other district has been able to replicate. The air carries a mineral smell that comes from the stone itself. Wealth concentrates here, along with the sort of calm that exists only because everyone present has already calculated the cost of disturbing it.