Castle Rock
Castle Rock
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| Type of castle: | Motte-and-Bailey |
| Country: | Logres |
| County: | Salisbury |
| Castellan: | Elad |
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Castle Rock is an ancient fortification build on a large hill in the middle of Sarum. For the longest time it was simply a fortified manor, protected by a palisade and the city's defences. But in recent generations the castle has been heavily fortified, especially by Lady Ellen.
The Castle is now the most well defended castle in Salisbury, even though not yet rivaling the ancient roman walls of Silchester castle. The keep is surrounded by stone walls, manned as always. The city itself is also surrounded by stone walls (these defenses are not part of the castle itself.)
The Keep
On a motte in the middle of Sarum lies the Lord's manor, traditionally called “the Rock”.
The most prominent building in the Rock is the Keep (or the 'Great Hall'). Here the Lord of the Rock holds his courts, feasts, and courts. It’s a large building of stone and wood, built to be defensible as well as impressive.
The Keep's most prominent interior feature are the High table, where the Lord and his most important guests dine, and the famous bathtub where Roderick liked to take hot baths with his family every week. The hall is often in disarray, since there are many people living there, the servants tries to keep the manor clean from the worst of it.
The Lords chamber are upstairs together with the solar.
Robyn
Although the hall had historically been decorated with a lot of roman art-work, this was changed by Robyn who filled the hall with many new and impressive works of craft from far away lands on the continent. He liked to impress his guest with italian pottery, greek wool and germanic woodcraft.
Roderick
Roderick did, when he took over his father’s castle, continue his father’s tradition and gathered trophies and art from far away lands to hang on his walls. Although the manor was rebuilt in a more modern fashion when Roderick took over, most of the manor’s interior remained the same.
Ellen
Ellen has had to make major changes to the interior decoration of the Hall, since it's an entire new building. She has thrown out most of the former lords decoration and put a more "female touch" to the place, which in Ellen's mind means less. The only major decoration in the hall is the now famous "Wall of Heroes" and the "Wall of Treachery".