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| Leza-Sîk |
In the
Demon Spawn War, when forces under
Loki and
Silvanus were battling
Graz'zt, the
Ark'toan valley served as a camp for a fey army serving under the archangel Silvanus. Many battles were fought here and fortifications built. The most notable of these is Leza-Sîk. Before it became a formidable bastion it was a hastily built stockade meant to fend off a demon army. The Walking Palm army, a unit under Silvanus, was greatly outnumbered in this battle. Silvanus asked for
treant volunteers to serve as a stockade, meaning that they would root themselves to the ground and then be petrified by spells to turn their trunk, limbs and branches into something as hard as stone. This petrified treant stockade saved the Walking Palm army from being wiped off the map, yet many of these volunteers perished in the process. This was because the battle resulted in much of the stockade being turned to rubble - un-petrifying something that is only half left is death to most creatures, including plant-life like treants.
A few months after the battle,
Asmodeus ordered a bastion built here to protect the petrified wood. The fortifications of this keep were built atop these petrified timbers with viewing areas scattered all about the first and second floors of the walls and towers.
Silvanus named the place Leza-Sîk in honor of a
centaur champion who died fighting Graz'zt's demons. The death of nearly 50 treants, and the way they died, has left a slight taint on the area. For fey creatures, this means they may experience mixed emotions and for the weak-willed these psychic impressions typically result in fleeing the area.
In the Lith-Crillion Era, 620 LC, two years after the founding of the
Radiant Cross, the place was cleared of monsters and turned into the order's headquarters.
