Casinea
In Highguard's northwest, Casinea is where marble and granite are quarried and gold, silver and gemstones are mined. Several wealthy chapters protect the quarries and mines to ensure the protection of the vital assets against barbarians.
Major Settlements
Anvil
Location of the Senate. See Places of Interest.
Minor Settlements
Casca’s Doom
A small chapter built round a shrine to Loyalty in the early days of Empire. Casca was a Magister who was ordered to perform a mighty work of magic to shake the ground beneath an orc army’s feet. Despite reservations, the ritual went ahead at the command of the Senate. Legend has it that she continued to chant even when the power grew too much and the ritual failed, splitting the ground and burying her in the rubble. Her doom is considered a lesson by many magisters in Hghguard today. Loyalty must be tempered with wisdom, and the voice of the Conclave must be heeded.
Syrene
A quiet community set around a small pool in the hills near Anvil, surrounded at a distance by a number of watchtowers and beacons. It is kept under close scrutiny by both magisters and Conclave. At this crossroads between the Navarr and Highguard, heralds have often come to speak for the Eternals to those of Empire who would listen.
Tabernacle
A well-fortified triple-ringed chapter whose settlements sprawled outside its walls in long years of peace, now under siege as barbarians march from Reikos to cut the land route between Anvil and Bastion. It is now the front line, many of the outlying houses razed in defense before the enemy attacked.
Places of Interest
Anvil
The ruins of the old smithy in which the first Empress took shelter from her enemies when a young woman. Said to be where the first open declaration of the dream of Empire was made. After her ascension to the Imperial throne, the Empress declared that the small settlement would be preserved for the lifetime of the Empire in memory of sacrifices made by those sheltering her. Since then Imperial parliaments have been held there, but the town itself has never been allowed to grow.