V The First

Places

The Places

Places:

Castles, Palaces, Temples, Towns, Cities, kingdoms and forbidden places of the dark.

The Places

The World we share

The saga spans both history and myth. From the kingdoms of Bohemia, Wallachia, Hungary, and Transylvania to the imagined town of Targos, from palaces and castles rooted in history to the legendary Red Castle and the Four Watchtowers. Some places breathe like characters themselves—none more so than the dreaded Forbidden Forest, said to guard the grave of the All-Mother.

See some of this iconic edifices:

Buildings

Buda Royal Castle

Hungary

1300 A.D.

Var von Croÿ

Transylvania

1300 A.D.

The Forbidden Forest

The Dark Woods

Between Wallachia and Transylvania

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Upon the farthest fringes of Wallachia, where the mountains lean into Transylvania, lies the Forbidden Forest. A realm of shadow and dread, where the air itself seems steeped in silence. Legends speak of terrors that prowl beneath its boughs—terrors so dire that none dare enter, for those who pass within seldom return.

There, at the forest’s dark heart, a cavern yawns. Its passage coils deep beneath the earth, plunging into a place untouched by sun or star. And it is said that in those fathomless depths lies the dominion of the All-Mother—her prison, her tomb, her eternal throne of silence.

Set at equal distances from this accursed womb, though scattered across distant realms, rise the Four Watchtowers of the Elements. Ancient strongholds of stone and flame, of river and root, of wind and mountain. Within them dwell the covens—keepers of fire, water, earth, and air—bound to guard the balance of the world, as it was in the beginning.

The Four Watchtowers

The Elemental Temples

Homes of the Forces of Natures

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The Four Watchtowers, known in older tongues as the Elemental Temples, stand like silent sentinels at the edges of legend. Raised in a forgotten age, they were set at equal distance from the resting place of the All-Mother, as if to encircle her with a ring of vigilance and seal the trembling balance of the Underworld

Each tower is bound to a cardinal element—Fire to the South, Air to the East, Earth to the North, and Water to the West—and through these ancient alignments the towers draw their power. They serve not merely as shrines but as bastions of arcane strength and unblinking watch, their stones steeped in the old rites of those who first learned to bind the forces beneath the earth.

It is said that when the Watchtowers stir in unison, the ground beneath them trembles—not in warning, but in remembrance of what they were built to keep asleep.

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