Broch Tarna
This ancient edifice is thought to be the oldest still-extant fortification in all of Akados. The Daanites of Ynys Cymragh would argue that some of the mountain fortresses on their island are older, but these are not technically on the mainland, and no one can be entirely sure about histories reaching so far back. There is no record at all of the people who originally built the broch; it was already an abandoned ruin when Oerson led his legion through this area in –88 I.R. Since then it has been rebuilt, occupied, and abandoned many times; so many times, in fact, that the broch has gained a reputation for being cursed in some way. The Hyperboreans chose to build a new fortress at Albor Broce rather than claim this one in the high¬lands, and a goodly number of those who have occupied Broch Tarna have died either in battle or for seemingly entirely unrelated reasons (an outbreak of plague, treachery from within, a well gone bad to poison the occupants, or everyone simply disappearing one night). The last known occupants were the margoyle overlords of the human hill clans of the Wilderland Hills, who were defeated there in the final battle of that war. Lately, wandering rangers have reported that the walls are repaired once again, and that spearmen walk the battlements once more. But no banner flies above its ramparts, so who (or what) these new occupiers are, and what their purpose is in garrisoning the fortress, remains unknown as of now.
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