The Bastion

The Bastion is a squat, ugly thing - certainly not the kind of building you would associate with the feats of wonder that occur inside it's thick, greyish brick walls. It doesn’t look as if much thought was really put into the design at all. Simply they needed protection from the elements, and the simplest, easiest solution was to start building a large, almost square, box. Over the years, attempts have been made to spruce up the external appearance of The Bastion. White-washed paint once coated the outer surface, but quickly, and perhaps too quickly, the coating began to bubble and peel. It was the brick, they decided in the end. Whatever local shale had been ground up to serve as the solidifying nature of the construction pieces, didn’t want to play well with others. It rebuffed magic too, when others tried more arcane ways of enlivening The Bastion’s appearance.
They wouldn’t, however, tear it down and start over. After conflict between Kerellon and Derenell reached a little too far over the border into The Unition, and a military leader, recovering under The Bastion’s roof was killed by an arcane blast that would have knocked an ordinary building flat – The Bastion remained.
It seemed prudent to simply live with how the ancient building looked, and not mess with something that so obviously worked.
Due to a bit of clever mapmaking when Almusia was being divvied up into the hands of the Lords the King had chosen to serve as guardians of his counties, the Bastion is located just on the outskirts of the King’s County. The Healers, both mage and natural alike, benefit from the King’s protection in this way. They answer only to him. Not to any other Lord or Lady across the entirety of the Unition.
The Bastion boasts the largest collection of mundane and arcane Healers in all the Unition. Their Matron, while rumoured to be utterly terrifying and powerful in her own way, had little to no magic well of her own, but can pull vast amounts of energy from the aether, and other living things around her. She channels it into the knitting of muscle and sinew, the recovery of cells, and the homeostasis of a body.
She can’t, however, reverse what is already lost. Contrary to popular belief.
While not all Healers of the Unition train or work at the Bastion, the ability to draw upon its name wields a lot of weight across the Unition. Study there, work there, name drop a resident or two, and you’ll likely be eating free of charge everywhere you go. For the small fee of looking over an innkeeper’s mumps or bumps, of course.

Founding Date

Pre-Unition

Alternative Names

Healing Hall

Owner

King Alsaran