Location from The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir
The Ninth House's fortress — a stone crypt masquerading as a castle, where skeleton servants outnumber the living and the candles never go out because nobody remembers who lit them.
Drearburh is less a castle than a monastery built around a grave. The remaining Ninth House faithful live here in devotion to the Locked Tomb and its mysterious occupant. The atmosphere is funerary — incense, chanting, candlelight, and the constant presence of animated skeletons performing household tasks with unsettling domesticity. For Gideon, Drearburh was eighteen years of confinement, mockery, and the bone-deep conviction that she was meant for something else. For Harrow, it was the seat of her power and the monument to her sin — every empty room a reminder of the two hundred children who died so she could be born.
A fortress carved from grey stone, perpetually candlelit, and decorated in the Ninth House's signature aesthetic of carved bone and religious iconography. Corridors echo with the click of skeleton servants' feet on stone. The Reverend Daughter's chambers overlook the Locked Tomb's entrance. Everything is cold, old, and precisely maintained by dead hands.
Also known as: Drearburh, The Castle