The Black Keep

The Black Keep is a holdfast raised in 623 K.C. by King Darion I during Wolf's Crossing's first civil war. It was later conquered by the rebels and granted to one of the lesser nobles loyal to Caterinia Blackmorn after she became the first Grand Duchess of Wolf's Crossing.

Perhaps the most wild and feared territory in all of Wolf's Crossing, the Black Forest dominates the Eastern half of the Crossing and its trees have been the source of the Blackmorns wealth for centuries. Home to hundreds of massive black wolves the house of Blackmorn has taken for its sigil, those who work the lumber industry are forced to arm themselves so as to avoid being a meal for the beasts. A single holdfast dominates the Northern half of the forest, known as the Black Keep. Before the Civil War of 623, it was garrisoned with twenty forest rangers and forty Blackmorn men-at-arms.