Location from Azarinth Healer by Rhaegar
Shadow's Hand's mountain fortress city — scarred by the Demon Invasion, rebuilt meaner, and now answering to no empire because the people who live here are too powerful to push around.
Ravenhall smells like forge smoke, roasted boar from The Golden Drake, and the ozone tang of combat magic from the training yards. It's a city that runs on power — not political power but literal, individual combat power. Level 200 is the minimum to join Shadow's Hand, and the city's population skews heavily toward people who can kill things professionally. The Demon Invasion changed everything. Wallace Urn's betrayal, the demons that poured through, the desperate fighting that reclaimed the city — Ravenhall earned its independence in blood. Now it's governed by a council of Shadow's Hand members who'd mostly rather be doing anything else: Claire handles administration, Sulivhaan manages defense, Dagon provides intelligence, and Ilea provides overwhelming force whenever someone tests the city's resolve. The mood is pragmatic. People here don't care about your bloodline or your title — they care about your level and whether you can hold a wall. It's meritocracy enforced by the simple reality that weak people die in the kind of work Shadow's Hand does.
A multi-layered city nestled in a mountain range, with the sea to the east and the Isanna desert to the south. The outer walls show repair scars from the Demon Invasion — functional rather than pretty. The inner city, the Viscera, is better maintained: quality merchants, training grounds, and the administrative buildings that keep Shadow's Hand operational. Below everything, accessible through guarded entrances, lies Eregar's Haven.
Also known as: The Mountain City