Adamant Citadel (add-a-mant sit-a-dell)
The Adamant Citadel is the home of The Iron handed Sisters. The Citadel is well-protected, hidden, isolated, and hard to reach - somewhere on the Droplet Island.
The Citadel's location remains unknown. It is believed to be reached through one of a number of portal entrances scattered around the world - one located in Brisk in the Agwain region, Malnax. It contains the best Blacksmith forge and armoury in all of Esau.
The actual Citadel building can be reached only by crossing a drawbridge over river of lava on the Droplet Island. To enter, a person must cut their palm and place bloody palm on black stone. This causes a flash of fire (burning skin) and the drawbridge to lower.
The Citadel is seemingly just a single fortress, its depths however unknown. The Adamant Citadel stands on a volcanic plain, a stretch of moss and dried lava beds ringed by a narrow river of molten lava like a moat. A ring of tall, smooth, unbroken and a seemingly continuous band of adamas, with no sign of mortaring, also surrounds the Citadel.
The fortress towers high over the plain itself, with a ring of towers around it. The entire structure is carved out almost entirely of adamas, giving off a gentle white-silver light. Its towers are tipped with glittering electrum. The whole fortress is surrounded by a high wall. Set in the walls is a single gate, formed of two gigantic blades plunged into the ground at angles, crossing each other. Separating the gate and the top of the ridge plain is a vast chasm that opens into the river of lava that encircles the fortress. Connecting them is a closed drawbridge that only lowers upon the sacrifice of blood. The drawbridge is strewn with knives at random intervals, embedded with their blades pointing upwards, making it impossible to approach the Citadel in haste or without care.
Its inner chambers may be walked only by the Sisters. Although they accept visitors, they are welcomed only into the receiving antechamber, the only room outsiders are permitted to see. The whole antechamber also dimly glows with adamas. Carved into the center of floor is a black circle with the sigil of the Iron Sisters: a heart pierced by a blade. The room is simple, with no furnishings or comforts.
The Resilient Brothers are a powerful group of male monks who train as fighters, scholars and medics - the only regular visitors to The Adamant Citadel. They are said to train in the exceptional weaponry from the The Adamant Citadel. They live within the Resilient City in another unknown location - believed also to be on the Floating Island - Droplet Island.
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CONSTRUCTS
The Iron Handed Sisters forged seven stone creatures, Construct, to protect the Floating Islands where they reside - on Droplet Island. These forged were to stand guard on the the edges - the little magic they had turned on when under threat. Their defence was from the outside - never did The Iron Handed Sisters image a threat from within.Two constructs went missing - sent falling to the land below.
One broke on the rocks of the Locke Quarry. While the other not break - where it fell grew over it in time - bringing it to life and adding in some gentle Wild Magic into it it became more than it was created as. The Gnomes found it and named it Glim Bramble. He has no idea what he really is - he became a member of the adventuring party The Seekers.
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