====== Alvion: Blackstone Stronghold ====== {{:game_systems:settings:alvion:locations:the_white_wastes:pasted:20241001-051124.jpeg}} //Shielded from The Whip by the Blackstone Mountains, this mighty fortress sits in a cove facing the Black Sea.// ---- Blackstone Stronghold acts as the seat of power of the three Orc Khans, descendants of survivors from the days of The Shattering. From the safety of the naturally magic-repelling blackstone, they are protected from the mages of Tarn and the lords of Hingashi at once, making it quite impossible to ever unseat them. As the Orcs are quite aware of this alongside their neighbors, they possess an uneasy truce with each. The Orcs play to their strengths (literally), leading them to perform expeditions in Goris, The Deep, or to The Blight, depending upon who is hiring them for a particular job. The Orcs of Blackstone are warlike, as war is their livelihood - peace is bad business. If the times get too quiet, they will conduct a slaving raid in The Blight to take more bodies to Hingashi, or conduct a raid into Goris in search of pillage, or stoke up a fight with Vailima's children. There is always a battle to be won.