Karthwyld
Five courts. Five descents. Choose where to walk · the gates open for all who come prepared.
Court of All Five
The original descent · all five courts walk these halls.
The first dungeon, and the only dungeon for those who descend with intent. The Verdant Crypts thread through the rock in thirty tiers and admit creatures of every element · the apprentice meets the full bestiary here.
Elders sleeping here
Court of Wyld
Spirits of the deep groves and the green hush.
Where the moss grows thick and the trees keep their own counsel. The Wyld court binds slowly · what stirs here remembers the soil and rarely consents to be hurried.
Elders sleeping here
Court of Ember
Born of pyre, ash, and slow-burning ritual.
The mountain breathes here. The Ember court keeps no fires that are not their own · what the apprentice brings down from the rim has spent a lifetime learning the heat.
Elders sleeping here
Court of Frost
Things that sleep where the cold sings.
An ice shelf the colour of an old bruise, riddled with tunnels older than the Conclave's records. The Frost court binds with patience · their familiars carry the long chill back to the threshold.
Elders sleeping here
Court of Gloom
What was buried, and what would not stay buried.
A city of vaults sunk into the marshlight. The Gloom court holds no living dominion here · only the patient ones, the ones who counted being dead as a temporary inconvenience.
Elders sleeping here
Court of Abyss
Wounds in the world. Names better left unspoken.
A tear in the rock that should not be a tear. The Abyss court binds at a cost the apprentice should know going in · what comes through here was not invited and rarely leaves quietly.
Elders sleeping here
