Salamandra

The castle of Salamandra is centrally placed along the Bone Road and functions as a major provisioning and rest-over base for patrols and warbands moving along the highway. Much of the castle was destroyed during the wars and its exterior stone walls are still being repaired. Beyond the walls and brass gates, the castle keep stands inside a 15 foot wide and 25 foot deep, water-filled moat with a single drawbridge inside the gatehouse of the keep. Across the moat, a pair of stone salamander statues stand guard at the point where the bridge can be lowered. As Iuz's troops found out during the battle for Salamandra, these stone statues can be activated (if the right command word Is known) to become salamanders for three turns, three times per day. A slain salamander simply returns to its stone form and original position. As yet, despite extensive research, Iuz's mages have not been able to discover the command word or to activate the salamanders for their own use.