Bleeding Place

Story so far

The Bleeding Place is a circular amphitheater carved into the stone heart of Sungrave, where House Raa and the Rim's Golds have for centuries settled feuds by single combat. Condensation-slick stone dragons hang from its dark ceiling above tiered rock benches encircling a white marble floor emblazoned with the Sigil of Gold; a blind White Justice and a young White Chance officiate the sacrosanct rites, laying down a ring of white sand that drinks the duelists' blood. Duels here are governed by strict custom—no armor, no lowColors admitted, propriety demanded of the audience.

It is where Lysander as a boy watched young Peerless fillet one another, and where Cassius, challenged by Bellerephon, fights a brutal blood-feud duel—then, as Dido sends cousin after cousin against him, becomes the stage for her stratagem to bleed her own kin and stoke the Rim's war-fury.

Appearance

A circular stone amphitheater in the mountain's heart, sculpted lotus flowers and condensation-slick stone dragons hanging from the dark ceiling, tiered rock benches encircling a white marble floor bearing the Sigil of Gold, ringed in blood-drinking white sand.

Role

The Rim's sacred dueling ground; the amphitheater where Cassius fights for his life and Dido stages her war-stoking slaughter.

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