Gilded Heath

Gilded Heath, known officially as W.E.M.C. Mine No. 17, was an abandoned goldmine six miles south-by-southwest from the Palace of Mirrors in Halcyon, It lay in an area of the city ward that remained underdeveloped due to the rough hilly terrain. It was founded in the 1450s by the West Ecumene Mining Company, operated for three decades, then closed because the veins ran dry. Hundreds of years later in 252 C, its colliery was the site of the execution of King Copper, last monarch of Fascist Halcyon. The King was brought here and brutally executed by Tamerlane's communists assisted by the Wildecards. The King's body was thrown down a pilot shaft to a possible depth of over a thousand feet, hopefully to deter any magical designs loyalists might have on their remains. The site of the execution, and indeed the execution itself, were denied vehemently by the communist government
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