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Imarel Travel Guide - by T.A. Saunders ©2010 v1.2

Kingdom of Miroa Lion's Claw Hold (formerly Kasyatirma Hold)

Renovated from an Asyndi ruin several years ago, Kasyatirma Hold was the personal domain of Arisyeema Ymiyr Kasyatirma III, exiled queen of the Kingdom of Vyss and necromantically-altered vampire. It is here that she and her lover and cohort, Thanaxiscar established a secret order of dark Dragonriders, that were loyal to her and the Kiris Miran. With the destruction of Thanaxiscar, Arisyeema retreated here, where her position was more defensible against attack. Protected by an array of illusions of high skill, the mysterious dark Dragonriders that earned the moniker Bloodriders, the Kiris Miran and several powerful undead that they were able to draw control from a mostly indifferent Skaryn, this Hold was an extremely dangerous assault for the unprepared.

With Arisyeema's eventual defeat by the Blackgate Vanguard, Arisyeema's son and slayer, Nilharys took over residency of the keep. Now known as Lion's Claw Hold, after the standard of his adopted father Baron Kendrig Blackthorne, Lion's Claw Hold is host to the bulk of the Miroan army, which presently stands at over 300,000 regulars, 5,000 foreign mercenary fighters, 8,000 of their infamous clockwork undead and an indeterminate number of demons, including Xosian Drakes (which can fly), Blood Hunters of Miron and a named Blade Witch of Miron, Asheer'ah.

The Hold itself is still protected by many of the illusions Nilharys' mother put in place, with a slew of secret passages, false doors and booby-trapped passages added later on makes this structure perhaps one of the most dangerous places to breach with an attacking force, in the world.