The realm of Albion
Cities, ruins, cursed lands and sacred glades: every place named in the tales.
Albansreach
The jewel of Albion, its towers scraping the heavens. Beneath the royal palace lies the treasury where Lord Varrick sat on a mountain of gold, bound in the Chains of Greed.
The Ashen Glade
Blackened trees and smoldering earth, scar of the Ash Drake. Its cries echo your deepest regrets.
The Bastion of Varn
A monolith carved into a mountain's face, never breached. Drakvar bound himself to it to keep the Shard of Varn from the world.
The Black Spire
A dagger of stone against a stormy sky. Beyond it, the lair of Karnyx, veined with sickly green light.
Blackmere
Eadric's and Rykard's home: a grand cathedral city on the edge of a cursed, skeletal forest. Traitors sold its defenses to the Dragon Kin and it burned.
Blackthorn Keep
A ruined bastion of the Sigil Knights above a marsh-bound town of twisting streets. Kael died beneath its rotting banners; Kiernan learned the shadows in its alleys.
The Bridge of Doubts
Blackened stone over a bottomless chasm. It tests the soul, not the body, and no traveller who crossed it ever spoke of what they saw.
Brynmor
Seat of House Brynmor and a gilded palace that never warms. Its chancellor sold its council to Malakar, and its people went hungry under Dragon Kin banners.
The Cliffs of Greyhold
Desolate cliffs where the Eternal Flame has burned for centuries, tended by its Keeper.
Dawn's Hollow
A tavern town where travellers rarely stay more than a night. The Silver Circle pact was sworn in blood on one of its tables.
Eldmoor
A poisoned mire of perpetual mist, ruled from a sunken cathedral by Vaelthrax the Wyrm. Eadric lost his comrades here and came back years later to end it.
Emberholt
The proud fortress that guarded Albion's east until the Dragon Kin swept through it like a storm. Ysador found no survivors in its ashes.
The Evershade
A void-skied wasteland where a man's deepest fears take form and wear his face.
Fallow Vale
A village emptied by the Gilded Wraiths, spirits of greed, until Eadric broke their curse with Dragon's Blood.
Frosthaven
Houses huddled against eternal winter, and at its edge the Last Hearth: the forge where Slayers' blades are made and the Sigil is burned into the arm.
The Frozen Barrow
A hill sealed in eternal ice, holding the Oathstone. Oaths sworn on it are chains until death.
The Gate of Shadows
A runed archway carved into a cliff. None who entered returned, until Loric.
Gildmere Abbey
Golden spires reduced to jagged fingers. Home of the Silent Custodian, haunt of the Hollowed Knight, resting place of a fragment of the Eschaton Shard.
The Hall of the Unyielding Oath
A hidden mountain fortress where the stone knights of the Silver Wardens keep eternal vigil over the Relic of Unity.
Hallowfen
A village consumed by despair, now lit by the Lantern of Lyria.
The Hills of Albion
Rugged hills bathed in amber dusk, where four broken souls swore the oath that founded the Society.
The Hollow Vale
A place of mourning where the unremembered dead whisper on the wind, and where the Lyrican Harp waited beneath a skeletal tree.
Hollowpeak Keep
Obsidian spires on a mountain summit, lair of Zorynthal the Stormwing Wyrm. Callum died in its roofless throne room; so did the dragon.
The Iron Wastes
Villages buried in ash, where Sir Ardent Carroway made the last stand of the Silver Circle.
The Library of Gildenspire
Towering shelves of Albion's history and forbidden truths. The Whispering Stone was shattered in its deepest chamber.
The Moorlands
Mists coiled like serpents around cairns and withered trees. Maeve's cottage stands at its edge.
Mount Wrathspire
Rivers of molten fire and a cavern of embers where Igneorath sleeps. It erupted the day Eadric took the Heartfire.
Raethwyn
A coastal city taken by the Dragon Kin, its defenders slaughtered and its people driven into the sea. Eadric swore on the Oathstone to reclaim it.
Ravenspire
The blackened fortress that has never fallen to an outside force. Kael and Ysella were lost in its first siege; Lorien's Starshard broke the second.
The River Tarn
A crumbling stone bridge in the mist where twenty villagers, a Slayer and a Bastion turned back a Dragon Kin column.
The Sanctum of Reflections
A circular chamber carved into the earth, holding the Mirror of Betrayal.
The Shadowed Glade
Perpetual twilight beneath a canopy so dense no sun reaches the floor. The Silent Weaver's tapestry hangs here.
The Shadowed Keep
Towers like jagged teeth where the Veil Wyrm, dragon of despair, nested.
The Shroudlands
A fog where the sun never touches the ground. The Lantern of Lyria lay dark here.
The Temple of the Ashen Flame
A cracked, vine-choked temple whose brazier flares with silver and crimson fire for the chosen.
The Tower of Forgotten Truths
A broken blade of stone holding the answer to any question, at a price. Here Eadric learned what the Dragon Kin are.
The Vale of Thorns
Vines that bleed crimson when cut hide the entrance to the Whispering Well.
The Verdant Glade
Home of the Lifetree, whose bark shifts between green and gold and whose essence bound Albion's champions together.
The Watchtower of Highmarch
A crumbling tower in the rolling grass where the Keeper of Choices waits at a chessboard of black and white marble.