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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.
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The Places

Buildings Index
Supernatural Places
The Elemental Towers
Castle Basarabia
Mountain Crown - Wallachia


Buda Palace
Buda, Hungary










Buda Palace
Buda Hungary

Buda Palace
Buda, Hungary

Buda Palace
Buda Hungary








Buda Royal Castle
Buda Royal CastleHungary
1300 A.D.
The historic stronghold and royal palace of the Hungarian kings in Buda (Budapest), it plays a central political role in the mortal world. Its looming corridors and torch-lit halls have witnessed countless plots, alliances, and betrayals—some touched by the underworld.

Var von Croÿ
Transylvania
1300 A.D.
An ancestral seat that has withstood centuries of political and supernatural upheaval, the manor is the domain of Lord D (Darius), who periodically re-emerges in new guises to retain power. It also served as a refuge for Wolfgang in his youth. Beneath the manor lies a crypt known only to a few—where old truths lie buried in stone and silver.

Château Rouge
Marseille, France
1300 A.D.
Le Château Rouge, (The Red Castle) Situated on a sheer cliff in Marseille, overlooking the vast, mercurial sea, this infamous sanctuary once echoed with the laughter of nymphs. After the last Thiasus Nymph perished, the castle was claimed by the first coven of cambions. It stands as a place where the Children of the Night indulge their darkest desires—without shame, law, or consequence.

Novák / Hovart's Manse
Valtice, Bohemia
1400 A.D.
Located in southern Bohemia, this estate once belonged to the illustrious House of Novák before it fell in disgrace.

The Forbidden Forest
The Dark Woods
Between Wallachia and Transylvania


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

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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