Mountain Stronghold of Amadeo Bronzanti
Castle Dreist is a monumental structure, soaring 200ft high, with a gleaming sixty-foot spire affixed to its summit. Its imposing silhouette is all the more emphasized by its position, sprouting from a mountainous cliff face that plunges hundreds more feet down to the valleys below. There is but one visible entrance to Castle Dreist - a winding mountain road leading to a grand metal gate, large enough for an army to pass, five horses abreast.
The construction of this holdfast is elegant but eclectic. The castle's original foundation was a late Cyronic Imperial fortress and watchtower that once stood guard over the pass to Obrau seven centuries ago. If one looks closely, some of this old stone is even still visible between the latticed metal struts and bulwarks with their coppery plating.
Upon each of its four corners, the old fort bastions have been built outward and elevated to form four subordinate towers with conical roofs that overhang the walls. Each turret is bridged by immense flying buttresses that link them to the trunk of the main tower. Between the curtain walls and the tower itself, where once a bailey area would have stood open, there is now an enclosed expanse of tiled rooftop, vented with diamond-paned skylights.
Rising above it all, the spectacular central tower of Dreist juts upward like a lance brandished at the heavens. The tower itself is a mix of smooth-faced stone webbed with metal struts, and clad in sheets of a brazen alloy. Near its peak, the spire has four great gridded windows which open onto jutting terraces, from which the view must be both breathtaking and terrifying.
The whole affair shines in the cold mountain light, glinting gold, bronze, or blood red, depending on the angle of the sun.
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