The Titanion Realm. Stoneheart City.
Since Blackstone City vanished from the waking world, Stoneheart City had become the Stoneheart Horde's seat of politics, trade, and coin entire—the one city without rival on the whole continent. Cradle of civilization, sink of wealth, the hub where every race of the Horde came to mingle. It drew outsiders without number.
A fresh arrival himself, Mondusath found everything before him new and strange and worth a second look. The walls reared high and ran the length of the land; the gates stood broad and orderly, merchants and camel-trains coming and going in an unbroken stream. He stepped through the dark of the gate-tunnel, and the blaze of the sun came down and lit the whole city to a shine—hawkers' cries and the whinny of mounts braiding together—and the gloom in him broke open into something brighter.
