The Candles

The Candles is a neighborhood of eight staggering towers and its adjacent estate. Built east of Castle Ungebroch in the center of Rexxentrum, each unique in its design and structure built in the specifications of the original leading members of the Cerberus Assembly. Since then, each tower has been magically altered to the taste of their successors.

The Candles are "one of the most well-guarded and dangerous places to even attempt to break into or skulk around".

Ambition's Call
On the southern side of the Candles, Trent Ikithon owned a multi-spired tower of brass and ruddy brick, known as the Ambition's Call. It rises like a twisting monolithic tree from a courtyard dense with oaks. In the estate of the spire, there are multiple manors, including one occupied by Astrid, the 31st Woadstone Manor, a one-and-a-half story home built of "bleached pale wood with dark window frames".

The antechamber is mostly empty, carpeted in red and dark brown, with a crystal chandelier hanging from a partially domed ceiling. The intricately carved wooden panels wrap around doorless walls hung with large paintings of the Elemental Plane of Fire, a battle of the Marrow War, and a portrait of Trent Ikithon himself, depicted as a young man and appears to nod at the viewer. The floor of the antechamber, can lift rapidly bringing visitors to the upper floors. One of the levels has a hall-like dining room, with windows that during the Mighty Nein's visit looked out on a moonlit forest despite the tower being in the center of the city.

Gildhollow Tower
The tallest tower is occupied by Ludinus Da'leth. It shimmers with silver and has numerous balconies and external staircases. The peak is smoothed into a platform that is framed by four angled obelisks that almost meet in the center. There is no main door on the bottom floor.

Two-Faceted Tower
Known colloquially as the Two-Faceted Tower, the home of Lady Vess DeRogna is a tall, deep green-grey tower that forks into two smaller towers at differing heights, "immense and elegant in its simplicity". The door is large, made of smooth deep grey wood crossed by three bronze metal bands, and bears a large door knocker in the form of a ring in the mouth of a griffon.

As in other wizard towers, the inside is somewhat larger than the outside. The lobby is an atrium-like chamber elegant and simple as well as the exterior: adorned with marble, dark wood, gold leaf, a beautifully patterned circular rug, and two dark grey velvet benches. The way up leads through a staircase with intricately carved banister. Four Unseen Servant sit motionless across the sides of the room.

Upstairs, Lady DeRogna's lounge is carpeted in deep red, equipped a number of polished cherry wood chairs, and with a large white marble fireplace above which is a large painting of the broken landscape of Xhorhas. There are multiple stone reliefs and sculptures of "odd creatures and beasts", bringing an image of hunter's trophies. When the party appeared to be made uneasy by the sculptures, Lady DeRogna changed them with a wave of her hand.