Kastis (KAH-stiss)
Kastis was a small village in southern Unenshuut, west of the Sebat River, that once numbered around one hundred people. Like many southern settlements near water sources, one of its primary crops was wadaloush for export, but they were generally subsistence farmers.
It likely would have been of little concern until the locals grew suspicious of warlock activity in the area and the village itself in late 969AC. It began as strange activity, usually at night, then disturbances to the Ega, and progressed to livestock and then villagers going missing. Fearful, they scrounged what little money they had and used it to hire mercenaries -- Brinnlas Sousan and Unliore Jrei'ein -- to investigate in the Season of Ripening 969AC. Brinnlas and Unliore managed to uncover a small group of warlocks led by Vasaeon Hejiq using living things to practice summonings and other shadow-work; however, they were discovered on the 73rd Day, and both villagers and Unliore were betrayed by Brinnlas, who fled. Unliore was captured and, on the 3rd Day of the Season of Closing, the warlocks used her Ega as an additional source of power to successfully summon Xa'aroch -- in doing so her Ega erupted, burning the town to cinders and killing innocent civilians in the process.
Since then, it has become one of the primary gathering spots outside of the Keismeb underground for warlock activity. Following the success with Xa'aroch and his agreement to help, more and more experimentation and summonings would follow, and after the warlocks' absorption into the Host of Selephise of the Violet Accord, Kastis would be used as the primary base of operations for all Azgorach- and warlock-related activity during the War of the Six. It thus earned the nickname the Shadow's Door.
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