Spiral

This highly unusual castle has the form of a double square keep with internal mirror imaging and a nest of spiral staircases, many of which descend to labyrinthine dungeons below. Bersheben uses it as a garrison for troops patrolling the Mikar's banks, keeping careful watch over Medegia. Harnnden of Nulbish, and Dilweg, both pay monies to support this castle since they have a vested interest in keeping Medegian madmen or fiends well away from their lands. Spiral has been home to one of Bersheben's advisors, tucked away in a tower for nearly 300 years. Rexifer is a Garasteth lich, whose field of study is the Blood War between baatezu and tanar'ri. Utterly unconcerned with house politics, he causes no problems for Bersheben, though why she visits him once a month or so for conclaves is quite unknown. Before the wars, such people as Karoolck came to visit Rexifer, suggesting that the lich's knowledge of Abyssal and Hellish affairs must be very extensive. Rexifer is absent minded and will happily talk for hours about his field of study, but Bersheben's troops make certain that no uninvited guests get the chance to pick the lich's brains. Bersheben's younger sister, Baaneth, one of Darmen's few mages, uses her divinational skills and abjurations to detect and fend off magical intrusions. And she, too, learns much from the lich. Some say Baaneth is every bit as wicked and cruel as her sibling, and even more dangerous because of her lack of self-control, and magical skills; she is 11th-level.