Location from Bastion by Phil Tucker
The prison where Scorio was held for two years — a place of torture that became, against every intention, a forge for something stronger than what went in.
Scorio spent two years in the Crucible. The series doesn't flinch from what that means: torture, isolation, the systematic dismantling of everything the Academy built. The Crucible isn't punishment — it's erasure. It exists to unmake Great Souls who have become inconvenient. What the Crucible didn't account for is that Scorio's core trait — indomitable will — is precisely the thing torture can't touch. You can break his body, suppress his mana, isolate him from allies. You cannot make him quit. The Crucible produced the opposite of its intended result: a Great Soul who has nothing left to fear because the worst has already happened.
A place of confinement designed for suffering rather than security. The architecture serves the dual purpose of containing Great Souls and breaking them — physical restraints supplemented by mana-suppression and environmental hostility.
Also known as: The Prison, Scorio's Crucible