Eh, they're not that different, but the long version's all tied up in some bad stuff happening back in Etria.... Back in my world just saying Gotham would be enough.

Gotham was a mining town at the foot of Yggdrasil. It got totally levelled overnight in an unprecedented disaster and if you believe the rumors no plants grow for miles around the ruins and there's a big pit where Yggdrasil used to be that's still burning. There's only two known survivors, me and Simon.

[He's casual about the telling, it really doesn't bother him. It was a long time ago.]