Infested Citadel

The **Infested Citadel** is the spawn location and boss arena of the 6th boss, The Queen. Unique among the boss arenas, the infested citadel is an instanced area (much like a dungeon) wherein The Queen can be encountered and fought.

## Exterior

The outer entrance of the citadel is a large, damaged Dvergr-made Black marble structure found in the Mistlands and situated beneath a large rock. Atop the structure is a doorway leading inside the rock face, which is blocked by the **Dvergr vault**, a large door bearing a runic inscription and a locking mechanism. In order to open the vault door, a Sealbreaker is required.

In the wall of one side of the staircase leading up to the top of the structure is a damaged Wood wall, which can be destroyed or deconstructed to access a passage to the lower floor of the structure, which has several rooms:

* Two rooms are empty (except for stairs leading to the access point at the main staircase).
* One room contains several pieces of Dvergr furniture (a chair, table, and shelf) and a Dvergr lantern.
* Another room contains only a Dvergr table.
* The middle room has a destroyable Dvergr lantern, a Dvergr stool, and three Dvergr barrels.

While the Dvergr furniture (including the barrels) cannot be used by players at all, they can be destroyed to provide resources:

* The chairs, tables, stools, and shelves each provide between 1-3 of: Copper scrap (33.3%) and/or Wood (66.7%).
* Each Dvergr barrel provides exactly 1 Copper scrap, 1 Fine wood, and 1 Tasty mead.

The structure exterior is also adorned with Blue jute curtains and drapes, which can be destroyed for a source of Blue jute.

## Interior

The citadel interior is a large room with infested pillars and is criss-crossed by staircases stretching upwards to the top, where the Forsaken altar, the **Hive seat**, awaits. Sprawled around the lair are several grouped brood eggs, which spawn Seeker Broods and can be broken like the ones found in Infested Mines.

The Queen is *alive* and roaming inside the citadel; she need not be summoned at the altar unless she has already been defeated, in which case the altar will consume three Seeker soldier trophies to re-summon The Queen. Since The Queen can be anywhere within the citadel when the player first arrives there, the only truly safe zone is the small covered area around the entrance, which cannot be reached by any of her attacks (though her summons may still reach players there).

## Gallery

### Exterior

Exterior view of the infested citadel.The entrance to the infested citadel after using the Sealbreaker.The "hidden" entrance to the lower level of the citadel exterior.A room in the lower level of the citadel exterior, with Dvergr furniture and lantern.A room in the lower level of the citadel exterior, with Dvergr furniture and barrels.A room in the lower level of the citadel exterior, with a Dvergr table.
### Interior

View of the ground floor of the interior of the citadel.View of the top floor of the interior of the citadel.View of the Hive seat on the top floor of the interior of the citadel.
## Trivia

* The door of the Dvergr vault at the entrance to the citadel is inscribed with two glowing Proto-Germanic runes from the Elder Futhark runic alphabet: **ᛈ perþō** ('p') and **ᛉ algiz** ('z' or, in Old English, 'x').