Barricade Katta

Barricade Katta

A crashed Sul’at fortress in the Phoenix Basin brims with ancient weaponry and dangerous defenses. Along the borders of powerful giant empires, the magic arms race led to the creation of weapons platforms to fend off attack. The borders between the Cul’sir Empire and the Sul’at League was one such hotbed for weaponised magic, for while the League were happy to dance on the thin line of trading with the Cul’sir, they weren’t foolish enough to show any weakness. In the end, the giants never expected to turn this weaponry on a common foe.

The Shattering saw elemental conflagrations of magic hurled at the attacking dragons in desperation. Most of these weapons platforms were utterly destroyed via claw and meteor swarm, but some still remain, along with the bones of the soldiers within. Boiling Wreckage. Barricade Katta was developed by the Sul'at League as a flying watchpost between them and the Cul’sir. It now lies half-sunken in the Phoenix Basin, close to the continent's current west shore. The former floating island is covered by a defensive fortress built from enchanted bloodglass and ur-cobalt. It now lies half-tilted on one side in the shallow ocean, which boils with steam around it.

Arcane armaments forged from firebrass stick out from firing ports in a 360-degree radius, many still glowing with etched Sul’at runes. The site is shunned by local people, who have no wish to brave the superheated sea or risk triggering the active armaments inside. The Barricade is one of the Battalion of Basalt Towers' biggest hopes. Immune to the heat of the steaming sea, their leaders hope to break into the fortress and recover powerful weaponry to use against their foes.