The Vitreous Fulcrum
The Vitreous Fulcrum is a hemispherical glass caldera in the mountains above Marukan, a short distance from the Estate of the Nameless Ravine. The name 'Vitreous Fulcrum' is not in common use as of yet, but those who peer into the future know that future historians will name it thus, and point to it as the site of a great turning point in the history of Creation.
The site itself was formed in a first-age war when a warstrider was struck and utterly obliterated by a discharge of energy from some other, similar first-age apparatus. The result was a spectacular, geometrically perfect bowl of glass harboring a concentric ring of glass pillars. In subsequent years, a noteworthy level of ambient essence fallout was absorbed and trapped by the glass.
Over the centuries, the essence flow to the site has become a tangled, muddled mess; Earth essence from the roots of the mountains, Water essence from the lake that formed in the caldera, Air essence from a wind-tunnel-like ravine that time carved out of the glass, and Solar essence from the glittering, reflective glass.
The site's Feng Shui was further complicated in recent days by a spectacular confrontation between An Oathsworn Circle and a fully-outfitted Wyld Hunt. Eleven exalts clashed, unleashing sorceries, artifacts, summoned spirits, and displays of power so mighty as to shake the foundations of karma. Ultimately, an ancient Immaculate Abbot of Wood was laid to rest on one of the fallen pillars.
All these forces continue to resonate in the caldera, circling one another and glinting in flashes of strange light from the glass. As of yet, however, no one essence flow has been able to dominate the others, preventing a demense from forming at the site.
This much was true before the site was blooded a second time. The circle again confronted a foe that sought one of its members when the army of hill-tribes and beastment, lead by Shouting With Iron, came on a mission of vengeance against Storm of Amber. The Battle of Breaking Iron was brief; though Amber was laid low by an inauspicious blow, his allies struck in a devastating counterattack that rent his essence and scattered it to the five winds. Againt the caldera was awash with essence, primarily solar aspected.
The geomancy of the caldera had been changed in preparation for the battle. The river that had fed the pool at its base was diverted, and the ravine was likewise filled in to create a perfect bowl. When the battle was completed, the explosion of essence released had dried the pool at its base and vitrified the remaining stone.
Rivers Between Us carefully converted the newly formed demesne into a solar aspected manse, the Pagoda of Infinite Strategy, which serves as the sanctum for Sweet Voice of Brass and Glory.
