Castle Rock

Castle
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Type of castle:	Partial stone
Country:	Logres
County:	Salisbury
Castellan:	Elad
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Salisbury Castle, also called Sarum or the Castle of the Rock, is a stone castle. It sits upon a great motte in the center of the city, and is the main seat for the Earl of Salisbury. 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.)

Curtain walls surround the inner bailey, which is roughly circular and about 300 feet in diameter. Within this bailey are the count’s domestic buildings, including the bakery by the east gates. The castle well is in the center of this bailey.

Sarum Castle has four small towers. Two regular gates and one postern gate pierce the wall. The gates have defensive towers and drawbridges that cross the ditch surrounding the motte.

The east tower protects the postern gate, which goes through it. The south tower is large and stands attached only to the wall, while the northern tower is attached to the keep.

The keep is the center of domestic and administrative activities. Four other rectangular, two-story buildings, all surmounted by battlements, surround a central courtyard that is paved with crushed chalk to cast more light within its enclosure.

The keep can be entered only by ascending a staircase on the second floor. The ground floor is used mainly to store food and supplies.

The private chambers of the count, his family, and county officers occupy the upper floor.

The north tower, situated along the wall, is connected to the keep.

The western building holds the great, high-ceilinged hall. Here most of the household knights sleep at night since the great hall is mostly used by guests. The south building contains storage and chapel, and above it more private chambers for county and castle officers, and for guests.

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.

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".