Citadel of the Black
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The Citadel of the Black was the largest settlement on Aucturn until it was destroyed (along with the rest of the planet) by the birth of the Outer God known as the Newborn.12
Geography
The Citadel of the Black was situated on the northern shore of the Undulating Sea in the southern hemisphere of the planet. A massive building almost a mile tall and several dozens of acres large, the Citadel was made of a jumbled collection of dense stone, black iron, pulsing flesh-bricks, spires of jagged bone, and tough organic membranes. Due to eldritch atmospheric pumping engines within the building, the air inside was not toxic, unlike the Aucturn atmosphere. Some believed that the tower was bigger on the inside, or that it has multiple interiors, each its own demiplane.1
The Citadel of the Black housed many libraries of blasphemous tomes, such as the tumorous Weeping Cathedral or the magically silenced Repository of Errant Lore. Beneath the building itself lay the fleshfarms which fed the populace.1
Government
The absolute ruler of the Citadel of the Black was Carsai the King, immortal high priest of Nyarlathotep and rumoured avatar of the Outer God himself. Despite Carsai's position, the Citadel of the Black was not a theocracy. The Highstalkers, based in the Citadel of the Black, was a security firm that straddled the line between police force and sanctioned serial killers.1
Inhabitants
The Citadel of the Black was very sparsely populated, and many residents, many of whom were misanthropic hermits and obsessed scholars, went days without seeing another, which suited them just fine. Other citizens worked the fleshfarms underneath the Citadel, or served in the Highstalkers. The Citadel was home to as many agnostic scholars as it was cultists of Nyarlathotep.1
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 . Pact Worlds, 141–142. Paizo Inc., 2018
- ↑ . Galaxy Guide, 5–6. Paizo Inc., 2025