The Sealed City of Scholars, Aspio (学術閉鎖都市 アスピオ Gakujutsu Heisa Toshi Asupio?), also referred to as the City of Shade, is a cavern city located underneath a mountain range on the northeastern part of Ilyccia in Tales of Vesperia. The city is a large blastia research facility for the Empire, and the majority of its population are scholars studying blastia. Aspio is also the home of Rita Mordio, the "genius mage" of Aspio, who is both famed and shunned due to her knowledge and obsession with blastia.