Tempus Keep

Fort Tempus is a fort in the Foreign Quarter of Shirekeep. It's used to defend the southern and western city districts of the capital.

History

The fort was built after the Great Fire of Shirekeep in 4030 ASC during the reign of Kaiser B'Caw I. Revolts against the Babkhans and Anticans during this period (as they were seen as those responsible behind an evil plot to split Shireroth) led to violence and riots in the streets.

The city guard couldn't avoid that the people began burning down several houses. The houses in the Antican and Babkhan Quarters were, however, relatively old and not very fire safe.

It ended up in one of the largest fires that Shireroth had seen in 5,000 years: the largest parts of the city south of the Elwynn were destroyed. Kaiser B'Caw I gave the order to build a fortress on the place where no longer where any houses left.

Between 1574 and the loss of the Foreign Quarter to Lichbrook it also served as a headquarters for the Apollonian Guard.

During the era when the renamed Foreign Quarter, Lichkeep as it was now known, languished under the paranoid and obstructive misrule of the corpse creature known as Mira Raynoria, Tempus Keep served as the "Lich-Queen's" seat of government, from whence she could hector and occasionally threaten whichever luckless noble was the temporary occupant of Raynor's Keep across the waters on the far bank of the Red Elwynn.