Location from From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout
The Ascended-ruled kingdom built on lies — where mortals worship their vampire overlords as divinely blessed and the Chosen are sacred cattle.
Solis stretches from the coast to the Skotos Mountains, a vast kingdom ruled by the Ascended under the Blood Crown. Its cities gleam with marble temples and golden spires dedicated to gods who stopped listening centuries ago. The Rite — ostensibly a sacred ceremony of Ascension — is actually a harvest, feeding the Ascended on the blood of Chosen mortals who believe they are being blessed. The Descenters who question this system are hunted as heretics. Everything beautiful in Solis is built on blood, and the entire kingdom exists to serve a single lie: that the Ascended are holy and the Atlantians are monsters.
Grand walled cities of pale stone and gilded spires connected by well-maintained roads. Temples to the gods anchor every major settlement. Beautiful on the surface — but the Craven prowl the borders, the mist from the Skotos creeps closer each year, and something is rotting beneath the marble.
Also known as: Solis, The Kingdom