Flame-bond Forge
The Flame-bond forge (currently under development by Rivers Between Us), is a fire aspected manse built in the Marukan mountain range. Smaller than the Plum Blossom Retreat, it is built as a forge and a refuge. As such it has supplies of dried food and water, with sufficient shelter for some four hundred people comfortably, though as many as a thousand might be able to hide within for a few days. The manse is built into a series of well ventilated tunnels forming a circuit around a dormant volcano.
While these rooms are constantly warm, they are not uncomfortably so. A system of ventillation shafts extend up through the mountain to carefully catch and guide currents of cool air into a diffuse network within the walls each room, countering the heat in the heart of the manse. This balance is automatically maintained by competing essence flows.
In the heart of the manse is the Solar Forge. The heat is incredibly intense; no mortal can withstand it for more than a moment or two at most. Rivers is able to manipulate the lava flows through a system of magitech controls built into an observation room. Using these the controls he can direct flows of molten lava into the forge and align the carefully etched mirrors in the tunnel walls to direct the sun's light into the catalyst necessary for distilling orichalcum. A separate forge is built into a nearby wall to work the orichalcum into useful tools at a bearable temperature.
Serrakeen has his own chambers near the heart of the volcano. The manse is shared by himself and Rivers as a symbol of the bond between them.
