Endovier is a slave camp in the northern portion of Adarlan on the border with Terrasen, nested between the Ruhnn Mountain range and Oakwald Forest. The Salt Mines of Endovier, are notorious for the short life span of its workers. Enemies to Adarlan, rebels, and accused magic practitioners are sent to slave away in Endovier until their deaths.
Description
In the shadows of the gray Ruhnn Mountains, Endovier is constantly bleak and overcast. Little more than a compound encircled by a large wall, it contains few buildings. Only a passage through the wall enclosed by iron gates allows entrance and exit to the compound. A large, shining building surrounded by a courtyard lined with lanterns houses Endovier's various Officials and Overseers. It is a standard grid of hallways and stairways, floored in marble, with iron chandeliers hanging from the ceilings. It also contains a throne room marked by thick red-and-gold glass doors. The throne room contains a large, grapevine-shaped chandelier and an ornate redwood throne upon a raised dais. Slaves are housed in a large, wooden building. Some ramshackle sheds are used to refine the rock salt. Various mine shafts delve into the mountain for the mining of rock salt.
Conditions
Thousands of slaves occupy Endovier and are escorted everywhere in shackles and at sword-point. Slaves mine rock salt in the dark shafts before dawn until after dusk, leaving the slaves in a near-constant state of darkness. Whipping posts are used often to break rebellious slaves, and the crack of whips are often used as a threat of violence, leaving the workers cowering in fear. Guards kill any escaping prisoner within three feet of their mine shaft. As the average life expectancy of the slaves is a month, mass graves are dug behind the refining sheds.
