CH800 The Frontier Stronghold
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The Frontier Stronghold...
Its name reflected an edifice built by the Celahan Empire to hold the line against the encroachment of the Great Berserk Beast Forest upon the Empire's borders.
But secretly, in the eyes of many, it was nothing more than a mark of shame—a monument to how far the Empire had been pushed back by the ever-expanding forest.
So much so that the Imperial Family had been unwilling to fund its construction from the Imperial treasury, instead shifting much of the burden onto the noble houses inhabiting what remained of the Empire's north-east after the fall of the Skywalker Family and many of the region's other powerful noble houses.
