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- Metropolitan Garrison, a once-mighty great-keep. The castle has 4 great towers, each with a magical negative energy orb in various stages of functionality. The walls are lined with oil cauldrons and crested with crenellations and merlons, making it quite advantageous to the ranged defender. The open fields to the front of the keep is defended by 7 long walls set in a wide, zig-zag pattern. This was historically a welcome stop for traveling merchants and common-folk on long pilgrimages.
- The Bridge at Ranmer’s Abbey, a legendary royal castle. The castle has 8 great towers, each with a magical fire orb in various stages of functionality. The walls are lined with oil cauldrons and crested with crenellations and merlons, making it quite advantageous to the ranged defender. Two great ditches separated by walls on all sides of the castle alternately serve as rather pleasant courts during peacetime. The castle was made in times of peace, and boasts a great hall for entertainment and numerous houses for guest lords and ladies.
- The Manor at Shaftesview, a strong imperial castle. The castle’s 9-foot-thick walls, standing 40 feet tall, indicate its occupiers regularly saw heavy warfare. While the mighty walls and high turrets of the castle are alone enough to stagger a siege, its greatest defensive feature is a great round bastion with a still-functional magical fire orb. Its external defenses include 3 rusted steel watchposts, topped with archer’s platforms. The outer wall’s main gate is now only a makeshift barricade after long battering by siege weaponry, but the original towers flanking it still stand. The moat is rumored to be populated by man-eating reptiles. The current structure rests on the forgotten ruins of Tree of the Stalker.
- Monk’s Mound, an old chateau. The castle has 4 great towers, each with a magical lightning orb in various stages of functionality. The walls are lined with oil cauldrons and crested with crenellations and merlons, making it quite advantageous to the ranged defender. Its hastily-made defenses include a simple earthwork berm designed to slow attackers and impede siege engines. The main gatehouse portcullis is rusted shut in the up position, and the defenders have blockaded it and dispatched a large percent of their force along the high, crenellated gatehouse walls. The castle is adjacent to numerous open fields and farmsteads, indicating its importance at the demarcation of some old serfdom.
- Count’s Pillars, a poorly-constructed royal palace. The castle’s impressive defenses support a large central cross-shaped keep standing 250′ high. Its outer defenses include a simple 30′ maple wall topped with a walkway. A great rotating bridge serves as the outer gate, with stationary double towers defending both ends. The walls are tipped with spikes, preventing an easy breach. Lord Beman is buried in the cemetery here, making it a popular pilgrimage spot.