The Fortress: From the bowels of the quiescent volcano to the eyry overlooking much of the northern Windy Mountains, the Tiger Fortress soared more than ten thousand feet. Built during the reign of the Peregrine Twins, the fortress was ancient. With six hundred levels from top to bottom, the fortress could house twenty thousand people in relative comfort, or fifty thousand in cramped quarters. Tapping aquifers deep beneath the mountain and having thousands of acres of hydroponics, the fortress was self-sufficient. With a network of electrical shields girding its surface like chain-mail, the fortress was impregnable. Poised a paltry twenty miles from the border, the fortress has always been a thorn in the foot of the Eastern Empire, and always will be.—The Political Geography, by Guarding B
