The Stormy Fortress

An ancient Fortress created to stock magical artifacts and weapons that are too dangerous to be left in the wild, infused by the magic of the thunderstorms, and now nearly abandoned.

## Localization:

The fortress is located somewhere in the mountain chains of Ayamahli, being build on the side of said mountains. It's very far away from any other location, and the nearest village is at more than two weeks of walking. The specificity of this location is that it's in the middle of the biggest storm you can imagine: an eternal swirl of wind and thunder constantly surround the fortress.

## Description:

As the name state it, it' a fortress: an enormous fortified building, surrounded by walls, lightning-shaped banners floating from the top of the triangular shiny blue roofs.

the thing is, i lied a little: when you enter the storm and come across the mountains, you see no building. Nothing. Why ? Because a building having such importance as the Storm Fortress cannot take the risk of being obvious and easy to find ! To hide, de Fortress use the storm: via the power of the winds, the building has dislocated itself and send all the parts in the winds. Bricks, furniture, objects, windows, roof tiles, all of this is flying in the storm, only leaving the central piece of power: the shrine commanding said storm, floating above the ground as the same place it is when the building is not flying around in a swarm. If needed, the Fortress can re-construct itself, brick by brick, furniture by furniture, to once again become a full building.

The presence of the Storm also attract some creatures seeking for the electricity: The most terrible monster you can imagine, slayers of nations and breaker of gods. Two of them roam around the fortress, fortified by the constant lightnings. Yes, the Fortress use the worst nightmare of the entire world to defend itself. They may even be what stop the most of people to come.

## History:

A Long time ago, a great number of people from different species (Lead by a group of Sorcerers) got to the conclusion that too many dangerous weapons and artifacts were let free in the world, sometimes causing damage. This coalition created several hidden places to hide these objects and protect the rest of the world. The Storm Fortress is one of those places, and it never failed at the job: from the few that learned the existence of the Fortress, none ever managed to steal something. And to survive. Because some have done it, but didn't come out alive.

At first, the Fortress was populated by the People that created it and their families, but over the centuries it has been slowly abandoned, leaving it alone with the storm. One last Person is guarding it: The Stormbringer

## Role:

as said above, the role of the Fortress is to hoard and protect artifacts... technically, protect everyone from the artifacts by keeping the artifacts sealed in the fortress. All of those aren't in the actual Fortress, i mean the dislocated house, but can be found in a web of underground tunnels and rooms directly dug in the mountain. these rooms are organized as following:

### List of Artifacts and weapons sorted by rooms:

#### not specifically powerful ones, but very practical in everyday life:

* **The bowl of infinite soup**: self explanatory i guess

#### Useless or Stupid ones:

* **Bird seeds:** Seeds that grow birds
* **Fancyforger Fine's Tophat of various peril detection**: a tophat that grows taller the more in danger you are
* Horseshoes that change size when no one observe them
* a hat that will reproduce with other hats and create hybrid offspring
* **The sword of bonus feet**: self explanatory too i guess
* a whistle whose sound is delayed by a whole day after being blown
* two spoons who's temperatures are switched: if one is put in a fire, the other get hot

#### Swords:

* **Shattered Swarm**: A Large rectangular sword made from some colorful crystal. It doesn't cut in itself, but it' fragile and will break easily, creating a floating shard, floating around his original position. Those shards are very cutting, and after breaking the whole sword you get a full swarm of cutting floating murder shards.
* **Inconstant Sword:** just a handle, but when pressed against any surface it will generate a blade made out of that surface. Useful to create Stone or Metal swords, or funny ones like Magma or Cake.

#### Armors & Shields:

* **Anti-Sword armor**: An armor that will vaporize when any sword come close, to avoid being harmed. does not affect organic mater or other equipment

#### Wands & Staffs:

* **Polymorphic Wand**: shoot a magic missile that will turn what it hit in another thing. Objects become other objects, Animals become other animals, with absolutely no control over what it become

#### Miscellaneous:

* **Infested Whip**: some strange dark purple jagged claymore, that seems to be made from some organic matter. the thing is, it can extend and separate in several parts, connected by what seems to be nerves, transforming the thing into a deadly whip.

#### Mass destruction Weapons that are really too powerful:

* **The Void Blade:** with it's obsidian handle encrusted with jewels, this sword is of the most beautiful. But beware of the blade, real fragment of pure oblivion, small nothingness among our reality. Acting similar to a black hole, this blade will cut through anything like there was nothing, and in it's path will let nothing
* **The Celestial Cataclysm** : some weird sword-like object, bending the stars and the universe to unleash destructive ray of space energy to obliterate his target. The power of the rays is directly linked to the position of the stars, and can be more or less powerful depending of the ages

## Trivia

* Many thinks the Fortress may be sentient, some theories are even that the storm itself is some conscious force bounded to the shrine and to the Fortress