Under the Mountain

Location from A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Amarantha's infernal palace buried beneath Prythian's sacred heart — a place of gilded horror where seven High Lords were enslaved and their courts held hostage through despair.

Also known as: Amarantha's Palace, The Sacred Mountain, The Mountain

What They Know

• The seven High Lords were bound here in chains of magic and despair—each held hostage until Amarantha's games were satisfied
• The trials Amarantha devised tested not strength but the breaking point of human will and love
• The masquerade parties served as psychological theater, stripping courtiers of identity and dignity through mandatory deception
• Secret chambers and dungeons exist beneath the main palace where the true horrors were contained away from witnesses
• The magic suffusing the mountain was so thick it prevented even High Fae from winnowing to safety
• Amarantha's throne amplified her daemati powers, letting her enter minds and shatter resistance from within
• The Court of Nightmares representatives attended her gatherings, suggesting darker alliances between powers
• Even after Amarantha's death, the mountain retains a psychic wound—a place where trauma has seeped into stone

Connections

• ruled_by — amarantha
• imprisons — night_court
• imprisons — spring_court
• imprisons — autumn_court
• imprisons — winter_court
• imprisons — dawn_court
• imprisons — day_court
• imprisons — summer_court
• site_of_confrontation — feyre
• held_captive — rhysand
• held_captive — tamlin

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