Lycan Castle

The Lycan Castle is the headquarters from which the Wolf King rules his kingdom. Found in the deepest parts of the Wastes Beyond, it is a mass of stone, metal and obsidian decorated with wolf statues, bone and other gruesome bits and pieces.

## Description

Built after the wolves' exile to the Wastes Beyond, Lycan Castle is an elaborate work. Built with black bricks obsidian, metals and stuff, it was meant by its ruler to strike fear into humans and animals who dare enter it. Bones of long dead beasts and humans adorn the entire structure, notably ribs built into ceilings as arches, skeletons of prey picked clean used as candle holders, as Atlantes supporting their walls or even as columns in one area.

Its colonnades have dead leaves at the top of their columns, its courtyards and gardens are filled with dangerous plants, niches, fountains and more, and it's adorned with tapestries, stained glass, murals, statues (some of which can be found in the mentioned niches), friezes, and many other decorative elements. They often depict wolves eating humans and beasts, werewolves, and other details. The art in Lycan Castle is just as unsettling, portraying its generals triumphing over humanity.

### Castle Interior

#### Lobby

When one enters the Lycan Castle, they find themselves in this room, which has the Wolf King's statue in the center, with two flights of stairs flanking it, leading to a single door, and framing the first door. The ceiling is decorated with green-fire chandeliers, and paintings of wolves devouring living creatures are hung on its white-veined black marble walls. The doors lead to the other rooms of the castle.

#### The Throne Room

A gray room, this is where the Wolf King hold court with his generals. It is decorated with red banners, some of which have scratches on them, and gold and silver trim. The throne is carved from black wood, with wolf heads at the end of its arms. Some of it is inlaid with gold, and the throne has a cushion. Torches held by sheep skeletons and Wolven armor alternate as decoration on the walls. This room is big enough to seat 5 packs, and a crystal screen supported by wolf sculptures is fixed on one of the walls that show scenes from the outside world. It is at the top of the tower called Primordial Heaven, a feature of the castle that makes it easy to locate.

#### The Royal Private Quarters

Where the Wolf King and later, the Wolf Queen, lives. It has a bedroom with a double covered bed, a bathroom, a personal bookshelf, a balcony overlooking the castle garden, and a holographic projector for when the Wolf King needs to address his minions but doesn't want to show himself.

#### Forge

Below the throne room of the castle's Primordial Heaven tower, it is where its blacksmiths forge terrible and lethal weapons. Its furnaces are terribly hot as well.

#### Gym

An area filled with the usual exercise equipment, but with unsettling appearances such as bones for bars, poles, and dumbbell handles, skulls painted to look like footballs, and more. There are vines hanging from the ceiling for swinging from, and a climbing wall that has the floor near it open to a lava pit.

#### Ashen Dungeons

The basement of the Primordial Heaven tower is where it's located, its name spoken in hushed tones by the Wolf King's subordinates. It contains many cages for many of its prisoners. More than one Seasonal Guardian has escaped from the dungeon's wall to its hidden secret passages to freedom, while others have died in there. It has a torture chamber reserved for spies and potential traitors to the Wolf Kingdom.

### Gardens

#### Deathmist Swamp

The closest things the Wolf Kingdom has to gardens are wild places such as swamps, marshes and grounds with twisted life. This garden is one of those places, filled with poisonous water, creepy lethal plants, and hostile wolves who train there to absorb its qualities.

### Exterior

#### Towers

The Towers are ominous structures fitted with arrows, catapults, and other things to keep intruders off the castle. Some are the Wolf King's dwelling places, such as the one called Divine Wolf Keep connected to Primordial Heaven by a bridge lit by torches. Others are watchtowers where scouts look for intruders.