Gormincrag

**Gormincrag Prison and Rehabilitation Centre For The Re-Education Of Dark Magic And Wicked Wizards** (which is,by the way,a long and fancy name for a jail) is a magical prison built of seven islands set in the Sea of Skulls where the most dark and dangerous villains, wizards and creatures were imprisoned and kept under the watchful eyes of the Droods and various other guards.

## Inhabitants

### Prisoners

Many other monsters and villains were mentioned to have been incarcerated in the seven island's prisons. Bogeymen. Ogres of all sizes and savageries. Jack o' Kents, Bugbears, Kelpies, Grim Annises, Dark Sprites, Roguebreaths, Wicked Wizards, Rogue, Venge-Sprites, Vampire Dogs, Werewolves, Basilisks, Harpies, Banshees, Cat-Monsters, Grootslangs, Erklings, Ghouls, Red Caps, Vampires, Hags, Vampires, Hinkypunks, Grimogres, Ice Warlocks, Boggarts, Grindylows, Trolls of all sizes and species, Gytrashes, rouge Cyclopes, Will 'o' the Wisps and even, once upon at time, Witches, before the end of the Great Iron War between the invading Warriors and the Witches, when the witches hid and went into hibernation beneath the Witch Mountains.

## History

The detention centre was built by the Droods during the bloody year the marked the beginning of the First Witch War under the orders of King Indertionin to house the most dangerous monsters and villains of the Magical World before they could join the witches. To keep it secure, not only was the prison constantly manned by the most powerful Drood spellweavers and surrounded by thousands of spells on defence and restraint, but it was also built on seven islands in the Sea of Skulls, surrounded by dark waters filled with terrifying monsters such as Blunderbouths, Daggerfins, and Bloody Barbeards. The prison was very successful and even the fiendish magic of the witches imprisoned within it's walls was unable to escape its hold. Throughout the centuries, the most dangerous evils were imprisoned within it's cells, placed there by wizards, or, on the rare occasion, neutral Warriors. Years before the events of the series, a great wizard called Pentaglion created the Spell of Love Denied. Unfortunately, one of the rare ingredients of the spell was three Drood's tears, and Drood's really don't like having their tears taken. In retaliation, the Droods destroyed his castle, Castle Death, apparently killed the great wizard, tried to kill his giant Proponderous and took his baby Lonar-Raving-Fangmouth Werewolf, Lonesome, into captivity within Gormincrag.

### Twice Magic

Six months before the beginning of the book, the Droods imprisoned Xar, son of Encanzo, king of the wizards while his father was away on a quest to the Witch Mountains to see how bad the recent return of the witches was, locking him within the prison after learning he was attempting to use the dark magic of a witch through a witchstain he had gained when he willingly pricked his hand with a witchblood-stained sword. Soon after this, Xar's talking raven advisor Caliburn (formally known as Pentaglion), sprites and hairy fairies loyally snuck into the prison to try to help him escape, although they were soon captured and imprisoned with their master. During his imprisonment, Xar shared a cell with the fully-grown seven-and-a-half-foot Lonar Raving Fangmouth Werewolf Lonesome, who he befriended.

During his imprisonment, Xar plagued the prison with his tricks, much to the Drood's displeasure. During his imprisonment, Xar had:

"*Put what was supposed to be Sleeping Potion into the Rogrebreath guards' wine, but it turned out to be cursing potion instead, treated himself to some stolen Invisibility Potion, but unfortunately it had only made his head disappear, giving the Drood in command of Reprogramming and Re-Education a terrible shock because he imagined on visiting Xar's Cell that the prison was being invaded by Headless Ghosts, cut off some tail hair of the Great Howling Hairy Hindogre imprisoned within the western spire of the prison while it was sleeping peacefully in its cell for his absolutely foolproof Bigfoot-soldier-with-a-beard-escape-disguise, much to Caliburn's protests, which was completely ineffective as when their winter coat's come in, Howling Hairy Hindogres are a attractive shade of midnight blue, and Xar had been caught red-handed within five minutes because the Drood Guards agreed with Caliburn that there was no such thing as a five-foot tall Bigfoot Guard (who were at least six-feet tall) with a bright dark-blue beard and the Great Howling Hairy Hindogre in question was mentioned to have still been howling in fury five days later, keeping everyone in the western tower of the prison awake all night, put itching powder in the nickers of the guards on patrol, stolen a chief prison guard's cape and dropped it into the Vampire-Dog pit, painted spots on the Magic Mirror in the main hall so everyone who looked in it thought they were coming down with something infectious, dropped the stinky socks of a Rogrebreath Guard into the breakfast porridge so that it tasted disgustingly of rotten eggs, taunted a imprisoned rouge Inferno Sprite, which almost caused the entire eastern tower to burn down, tied the beards of two elderly Drood commanders together while they were sleeping at the southern high prison guard dinner table, poured a ‘Love-Never-Lies’ potion into the pigs’ feeding trough, so the pigs feel in love with the Drood second-in-command, following the wizard around and making loud, enthusiastic squealing and kissing noises, which completely disrupted the regal air of command the Drood had, glued the bottoms of the entire Drood High Command to their chairs while they sat quietly and peacefully eating their dinner in the hopes that it would give him time for a quick getaway - but forgot to glue the chairs to the floor, so the Droods just ran after him with chairs stuck to their chairs stuck to their bottoms. This last incident had particularly upset the Drood High Commander in charge, for he was a man of great dignity, and he did not like having to visit the Sanatorium with a chair stuck to firmly to his bottom. He had draped a cloak over it, but it was quite a large chair and the Rogrebreaths, still stuffed to the tips of their ears with Cursing Potion, had made quite a few personal remarks that still stung when the Drood Commander remembered them.*"

The true story began with Xar finally exiting a escape plan, in which he stole both the Drood High Commander's staff, which controlled the entire prison, along with his father, Encanzo's (who had visited the prison to demand his son's release) staff and escaped with Lonesome, his Sprites and Caliburn, thanks to Xar using the staff to open everything, releasing everyone from their various cells to create a distraction long enough for a escape, joined his other, larger companions, Crusher, his three Snowcats, his wolves, bear and the Once-Sprite. This grand event became known as The Great Prison Jailbreak Of Gormincrag, when, for the first time in a thousand years, not only was there a successful escape attempt, but, indeed, the ENTIRE PRISON POPULATION broke out in one single night. The sprites would tell that story for many, many centuries afterwards. It was to good a tale not to tell. All of the escapees were recaptured, of course. Apart from two. A werewolf. A Xar, Son of Encanzo. The first human EVER to escape from the detention centre of Gormincrag did it by merely travelling across the Sea of Skulls, through the Drowning Forest on the back of his Snowcat, his animal and the werewolf swimming by his side, the sprites and Caliburn flying above him until he reached the distant shore and vanished into the dark trees of the Wildwoods. But did Xar really do it on his own? I must tell you that the Bloody Barbeards, the Daggerfins, the Blunderbouths that would have dragged Xar and his companions to their watery deaths at the bottom of the ocean, were eliminated by the evils lurking within the murky sea mist, were exterminated by a talon between the ribs, a acid breath to the lungs, a whiff of dark magic is their ears. *The witches got rid of them!*