02 - Iron Kingdoms W.. - Captain Spud Is Amazing

280 Iron Kingdoms
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(male Idrian Clr8/Mnk3) who continues his grueling
physical training regimen even though he has joined
the clergy. No one outside the Order of the Fist
and high-ranking visiting priests has ever seen the
underground complex.
Tower Judgement: Tower Judgement is a massive
fortress that serves as both barracks and a prison.
Oppressive in its sheer magnitude, the tower was built
from immense stones quarried from the surrounding
mountains. In this most unpleasant of places, the
rulers of the Protectorate incarcerate, torture, and
execute any who dare defy Menite orthodoxy in either
the political or religious spheres. While the exact
number of prisoners held in the dungeons that sprawl
beneath the tower will never be known, it certainly
extends into the hundreds. Tower Judgement is also
home to a small army of Menite troops sworn to
defend the Protectorate’s northern border.
winDs of wAr
since the onset of the crusADe, the gArrison At tower
juDgement hAs exPAnDeD greAtly. ADDitionAl trooPs hAve
ArriveD to Protect the neArby wArjAcK fActories, AnD Pilgrims
hAve flooDeD into the ProtectorAte for the PAst yeAr. After
A lArge grouP of menite refugees wAs AttAcKeD by cryxiAn
reAvers in octesh of 605 Ar, the tower hAs increAseD its
Desert PAtrols. greAter mAnPower hAs Also helPeD with the
influx of wAr Prisoners in the tower’s Dungeons. inmAtes Are
PAcKeD tightly into overcrowDeD cells mAKing the AlreADy
DePlorAble conDitions in the Dungeons even worse, AnD
Dozens exPire DAily from illness AnD stArvAtion.
grAnD scrutAtor severius mAKes regulAr visits to tower
juDgement. he not only comes to insPect Progress At the
fActories but to interrogAte Prisoners PersonAlly for
informAtion vitAl to the wAr effort. his rePutAtion is such
thAt Prisoners often begin tAlKing the moment he enters the
room, AnD just the grAnD scrutAtor’s Presence Alone seems
to bolster the morAle of trooPs stAtioneD At the tower.
Vassals of Menoth labor at the
Factorium under the vigilant
eyes of Sul-Menite clergy