Tresserhorn
| Tresserhorn | |
|---|---|
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| Information | |
| Plane | Dominaria |
| Status | Destroyed and submerged |
| Part of | Terisiare |
| Later part of | Sea of Laments |
Tresserhorn Keep was Lim-Dûl's fortress on Terisiare during the Dominaria's Ice Age.
Description
Tresserhorn was a dank, cold place. The rooms were tiled, with tightly shuttered windows, simple mattresses, hearths, and writing tables below ancient mirrors. Doors had ivory handles and moonsilver locks, with runes carved around the frames. The windows were a honeycomb of circular plates, like bottle bottoms, set into rude mortar. The crudely fashioned glass let unnatural light through but did not offer any views. Thick tapestries hung on the walls, but they were threadbare and rotted in places and in a few spots scorched by great heat. The walls were uniformly a grimy dark gray, and the few torches cast a wan light about them.[1]
The keep held a vast scriptorium two stories high. The walls on both levels were lined with deep shelves, piled high with books, scrolls, tomes, rubbings on onion paper, and loose pages of foolscap arranged in sloppy stacks. The upper reaches of the shelves were only reachable by ladders set into runners along each wall. The main floor of the scriptorium was filled with long, heavy tables, an odd collection of mismatched furniture from different periods — some tables delicate and well-finished, others rough and heavily hewn. There were at least thirty scholars within the library during its peak.[1]
The keep's cadaverous guards were dressed in armor blackened by time, but their weapons were bright and lethal. They were unmoving, and beneath the ancient and patinated helms were bare skulls and ancient skin, and frozen faces with splayed-tooth smiles. The central reception hall was bright and airy, and surprisingly warm. The tapestries on the wall were better woven and better kept than those elsewhere in the keep. One wall of the room was dominated by great hinged panels of stained glass that cast pale images across the floor. At the far end, unattended by any servant living or unliving, was a low dais carrying a throne that seemed to be made of the bones of an ancient sea creature. From this throne, Chaeska, Lim-Dûl, the Lord of Tresserhorn and Haakon all ruled the keep in turn.[1]
History
Tresserhorn was built by Chaeska, Keeper of Tresserhorn, twenty years after the Ice Age's onset. It was located over a bottomless pit and was built where once the Conclave of Mages, and before that the Monastery of Gix, had been.
The Lord of Tresserhorn, be it Lim-Dûl, Chaeska, or the Lim-Dûl copy, sat on a throne in its Great Hall, where an eternal fire was kept lit.[2]
When the world spell happened, the nearby safe haven erupted, sending parts of the mountain down on the keep and crushing parts of it, but the central structure was still standing 20 years later. Afterward, the undead knights of the Order of Stromgald laid siege upon Tresserhorn, now led by Chaeska and his created Lord of Tresserhorn. For twenty years, a stalemate held, the keep's skeletal defenders holding the knights of Stromgald at bay. But Jodah and Jaya returned there in 2954 AR, and destroyed the Lord of Tresserhorn. Though Chaeska was left in peace, the balance between the keep's defenders and besiegers had become broken.[1]
The Knights of Stromgald eventually overpowered Chaeska and his skeletal guard and took over the running of Tresserhorn as its new keepers. The renegades who had traded their mortality for ever-living power kept their faith in that damp ruin, banking their hatred against the Kjeldorans and Balduvians who had betrayed their ideals years before. Their leader was Haakon - unliving but still gifted with a mind and the memories of his past. Some time afterward, the keep was visited by the Rimewind leader Heidar. Although Haakon was initially hesitant, Heidar convinced him to ally.[3]
Haakon marched his Stromgald troops from Tresserhorn to Kjeld, but was held back and killed in the Battle of Kjeldor.[4] The New Argive army then mustered their troops and marched on Tresserhorn in turn, finally destroying the dark keep, its ruined remains left to be swallowed by the spreading Sea of Laments.[5]
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References
- ↑ a b c d Jeff Grubb, The Eternal Ice (2000), Wizards of the Coast
- ↑ Scott Hungerford (July 1996). "From the Library of Leng: Lord of Tresserhorn." The Duelist #11, 59
- ↑ Jeff Grubb (2006) - Keeping the Cold, Wizards of the Coast
- ↑ Monty Ashley (June 2006.). The Battle of Kjeldor, Daily MTG, magicthegathering.com, Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Jeff Grubb (2000) The Shattered Alliance, Wizards of the Coast