Deliverance - Notable Locations: Ravenspire - Formerly known as the "Black Tower," the Ravenspire used to be the headquarters of Lycaeus' Tech-guild prison guards but has since been converted into the fortress-monastery of first the XIX Legion, and later, the Raven Guard Chapter. The Ravenspire is an immense spire, heavily armoured and armed with enough orbital weapons to repel everything short of an Imperial Crusade or a sector warfleet. The Ravenspire is a place of great signification to the sons of Corax and to the people of Deliverance and Kiavahr. Although it appears neglected from afar -- as Corvus Corax decreed that the wounds of the initial rebellion were never to be removed as a perpetual monument in honour to the dead -- its defences have never been stronger. As a towering building, the Ravenspire consists of many different locations which are all of historical significance. The Ravenspire is still the home of the Raven Guard chapter and while indomitable in its defences has reduced in splendour. The structure now seldom harbours more than a few hundred. Whole sections of the Ravenspire lie shrouded in dust, or else are sealed away, patrolled only by robed servitors whose bionic limbs scrape through the corridors like a warrior’s death rattle. However, the Raven Guard care little for pomp and glamour, and the fortress is still fully functional.The Eyrie - The tallest tower of the Ravenspire, the Eyrie was once the roost of Corvus Corax himself. The stasis fields of the Eyrie are only deactivated during times of grave emergency, when members of the Chapter hope to communicate with the spirit of Corax. Of what guidance they do receive, no supplicant speaks. Nor do they recount the contents of the parchments scattered about the Eyrie's main chamber, saying only that they are inked with a thick black scrawl that becomes increasingly illegible as the verses themselves grow less coherent in meaning.Forbidden Apothecarion - The Forbidden Apothecarion is a vault that exists beneath the Ravenspire, secret from all save a few venerable battle-brothers. Access to the vault is forbidden to all battle-brothers save by order of the Chapter Master. It was here that Corax's attempts to expedite the regrowth of his shattered Space Marine Legion in the wake of the Drop Site Massacre reached their full horror, birthing mutated abominations bereft of reason. When the primarch at last realised the terrible depths of his hubris, he ordered the Apothecarion abandoned and forbade all further experimentation. Then he entered its forbidden reaches alone, and personally brought the Emperor's Judgement to each and every twisted failure therein. While the vault has since been cleansed and purged, it is said the spirit of the primarch's deeds still echo within. On Farmoon Night, when the moon of Deliverance reaches its yearly apogee over Kiavahr, bestial howls echo through the tunnels of the old Apothecarion, and the Veterans of the Raven Guard's elite 1st Company guard its doors.Blackchine Redoubts - The Blackchine Redoubts are headquarters and training areas of the Planetary Defence Force of Deliverance, trained by the Raven Guard emissaries. Unlike many Chapters, the Raven Guard share close ties with the peoples from whom they recruit. The Chapter has long drawn on the technological resources of Kiavahr and Deliverance, adapting many STC technologies to suit their needs. In return, Raven Guard oversee the training of the local defence forces at the Blackchine Redoubts -- a linked network of trench lines, skyfire anti-aircraft batteries and fortresses that encircle the mining complexes and spaceports nestled on Deliverance's dark side. Though unaugmented Humans cannot hope to match the combat prowess of Space Marines, the shadow-tactics of the Raven Guard are easily adapted to the lesser troops of Deliverance. The design of the Blackchine Redoubts capitalises on this fact, featuring a veritable maze of hidden strongpoints, secret approaches and false ramparts that allow their defenders to outmanoeuvre the foe without giving away their own positions. Such defences help to ensure that any force invading Deliverance would pay a heavy price in blood. This is well, as the Forsarr Sector in which Deliverance is located has faced many threats, from the Orks of WAAAGH! Garaghak to splinters of the re-emergent Hive Fleet Kraken. The danger has only increased since the opening of the Great Rift, and the need for vigilance has never been greater.The Red Level - In distant past, when the Tech-guilds still ruled over Kiavahr and Lycaeus, and the prisoners suffered under the harsh rule of Lycaeus’ guards, the "Red Level" had been the nickname for the Black Tower’s prison and interrogation cells. With the liberation of the prison-moon, this former nickname has become far more official, a stark reminder of the horrors the moon’s population had to endure and a testimony to their unbroken will. Despite several confirmed cases of defection within both the Raven Guard Legion and later the Raven Guard Chapter, it is unknown if the cells of the Red Level have ever been returned to their former purpose or harboured a prisoner since M30.The Carnivalis - At the bottom of the Ravenspire stands a large hall, the Carnivalis, a place of gathering since the time of the Legion’s foundation. In happier times, this mighty hall -- where several thousand Legionaries could be gathered -- served as the XIX Legion's feasting hall. As a place of celebration and commemoration, the Carnivalis' walls are adorned with many trophies of the Raven Guard's victories: relic weapons, skulls of defeated enemies, banners and armours and even wall segments and armoured doors of conquered enemy citadels. The lack of order in this collection notoriously led the Iterator Sermis Iconalis to comment that the Carnivalis looked more like the nest of a magpie than that of a raven. At the end of the hall stood a stage area and a lectern from which the Primarch used to address his Legion.Tax Keep - Officially known as the Primary Administration Core, Tax Keep is the main Administratum-building for Deliverance and Kiavahr both. It has stood there since the time of the Great Crusade and the formal installment of Deliverance as the base of the XIXth Legion of the Legiones Astartes. The silver and obsidian outlines of Tax Keep stand apart from the surrounding buildings but cannot truly rival with the towering might of the Ravenspire, to which the keep is connected by its own silvery tunnel. The Keep’s architecture is exemplary of Imperial engineering with its corner turrets, peaked roof and castle-like structure, which would allow it to resist nearly all save the most savage assaults. Despite its position as a Space Marine Chapter homeworld, other agencies such as the Administratum and also the Adeptus Mechanicus have many interests on Kiavahr.Wing Seven - Wing Seven of the Black Tower was a former low security administrative complex which had mostly housed the young and the elderly. Today its blackened and burned-out remains stand out in stark contrast to the rest of the Ravenspire, having being kept deliberately unchanged since the days of the Great Crusade. Wing Seven serves as a memorial to the innocent death, a silent monument to the 4,000 inmates who perished in this block during the initial rebellion on Lycaeus, when a corporal of the prison-moon’s guards ordered the main gas line set on fire as a reprisal measure for the miner's uprising.Wing Eight - Wing Eight of the Ravenspire, once the Black Tower, holds a special place within the Raven Guard Chapter, as it is the very location where their distant primarch, Corvus Corax, grew up amongst the more politically-minded prisoners. It was within these unseemly walls that the rebellion was truly born, planned and finally initiated. Wing Eight is accessed by the equally famous Twelfth Gate, a towering arch that still bears the scars of the bombs the guerrilla fighters planted in the distant 30th Millennium to collapse the Twelfth Gate at the guards' arrival during the Uprising of Lycaeus. A small shrine still stands in remembrance to the sacrifice of Naphrem Solt, a thirteen-year-old girl who sacrificed herself to trap the guards far from their central spire.