Location from The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb
The Farseer seat of power — a fortress of dark stone rising from sea cliffs, honeycombed with secret passages and haunted by the ghosts of every bastard, assassin, and king who walked its corridors.
Buckkeep Castle is never quiet. The wind howls through the upper corridors, the kitchens roar from before dawn until after midnight, and the harbor below provides a constant soundtrack of waves and gulls and creaking ships. The stone holds the cold — even in summer, the interior corridors have a chill that seeps through clothing and into bone. The castle feels alive in a way that is more than metaphor. Generations of Skill-users have worked here, and something of that magic lingers in the stones — a faint awareness, a sense of being watched by walls that remember. The Great Hall is warm and boisterous during feasts, claustrophobic and oppressive during political confrontations. The Skill tower at the top of the castle is the quietest place in Buckkeep, and also the most dangerous.
A massive castle of dark granite perched on cliffs above a deep-water harbor. The oldest sections are ancient — cyclopean stonework from an era before the Farseers, built by hands that understood how to make rock look like it grew from the cliff face. Newer additions climb upward in towers and battlements. The whole structure faces the sea, its back to the land, as if the real threats have always come from the water. Inside, the corridors are a warren — some grand and well-lit, others narrow and forgotten. Secret passages riddle the walls, known only to the assassins who use them. Chade's hidden tower room is accessible only through one of these passages, and contains decades of accumulated herbs, poisons, and experiments.
Also known as: Buckkeep, The Keep, Buckkeep Town