Citadel of the Holy Mountain

The Citadel of the Holy Mountain, also referred to as The Citadel and the Holy Mountain is a city-state and the seat of the Church and its highest international hierarchy. Considered blessed by God, the Citadel is situated on the Holy Mountain - a lone mountain dominating the flat lands around it, visible on a clear day as far away as the Eastern Westgauen. The harsh climate of the north never seems to reach the Holy Mountain, which subsists in a miraculously perfect climate, sustaining the lands supporting the city.

The Holy Mountain is dominated near its top by the Holy Panhagion, the most holy sanctuary of the Faith, a mighty domed structure crowned surrounding the dome with statues of all the saints of the Faith, which on sunny days bask in the light of the Sun. The Dome itself is magically hardened stained glass.

The Holy Mountain was at one time a hill on which the first Children of God, as the early Church was known, settled, building a small shrine where they worshipped their version of the Elven Heavenly Father. The Elves, to whom their claim to be equal children of their ancestral God was sacrilegious, at one point laid siege to the hill, whereupon the leaders of the faith, led by the half-elven prophet, formed a circle surrounding the hill. The Elves attacked, even martyring some of the first children, when suddenly the hill thrust upward, becoming the Holy Mountain that stands there today. The Elves, seeing this, fled, and, according to the legend, the High King converted then and there. The first martyrs are honoured in shrines placed within the Old Walls of the Citadel.