Redoubt

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Regions of Redoubt

Overview

Redoubt is the smallest of the three Urizen territories and the wildest. The peaks are lower here and many spires are actually built in the foothills. The lowlands are quite dangerous, being inhabited by several bandit tribes of orcs and barely a year goes by without a nest of trogoni or a den of drakes becoming a nuisance. Unsurprisingly, there are many citadels here and a strong martial tradition, but this is also a territory that produces more than its fair share of zoologists and botanists. These natural philosophers are sometimes blamed for the more esoteric animals and plants found here, and the occasional mutated hybrid horror that appears here is often a sign that a magician is straying dangerously close to insanity.

Minor Features

Delving

Delving is built in a network of deep caves that bear star-map patterns allegedly carved by the Sarassians. It is more mercantile than many Spires. Although it is still a place of study, its wealth is based on mining and knowledge of the principles of engineering when it comes to mining. Winterfolk often come here to teach and to study.

The Hollows

So called for its unusual construction: wind-blown caves in the sandstone formed into extensive dwellings by years of patient, meditative, stone-carving.

Tabulos

This college specialises in training civil servants, although it caters to scholars of all kinds. Its curriculum focuses on teaching rigorous objectivity and complex mathematics, allowing civil servants to make accurate accountings and forecasts.

Visten

Brings produce from across the Empire to the southern Spires. It is a thriving community, home to those Urizen who have found the life of the Spire too stifling and want more contact with the wider world.

Willstone

Built largely of wood on the lower slopes of the mountain, surrounding a central carved stone pillar, worked with many runes. It is thought that the pillar was used as a focus for training in the early days of the Spire.

The Unmade

A fused ruin of blasted stone atop a peak in the Redoubt. It’s said that it once was a spire, and was eradicated completely by the massed Spires of Urizen early in the days of the Empire. No-one remembers why.

The Court of the White Fountain

Built in the foothills of south-eastern Redoubt, the Court of the White Fountain is a single massive tower of white granite surrounded by a massive semi-circular wall that completely fills one of the few major passes between Redoubt and the Broken Shore to the south, The White Fountain itself is a great plume of liquid fire that bursts from somewhere deep within the earth and cascades down into a black basin before the tower, before disappearing back beneath the ground. The great courtyards of the tower are sufficient to hold the entire armed forces of Urizen, and the open ground they represent creates a deadly killing field for the skilled Urizen archers who man the upper reaches of the tower and the walls. (OOC Note: This is a rank one fortification.

The Brilliant Star

The Brilliant Star is a Bourse position which produces mithril.

Regions

Naris

Keywords: Coastal

Optarion

Keywords: Coastal

Siluri

Keywords: Rugged

OOC Notes

• Every region of Redoubt is in the hands of the Urizen (and by extension the Empire) meaning this is a staunchly Imperial territory.
• The Court of the White Fountain is a rank one fortification.
• The port-town of Cargo was erroneously placed in Redoubt; it has been moved to Zenith where it belongs.