Chapter 65 - We laugh last

The western quarter of Vitium belonged to House Carrion Fang long before the city's current walls had been raised. It belonged to them before trade routes formed. Before noble houses drew territorial lines on maps. Before merchants transformed portions of the city into districts of wealth and comfort. The Carrion Fangs had settled the western lands when they were little more than blood-soaked hunting grounds filled with starving beasts, wandering predators, and scattered corpses left behind by endless conflicts. Most houses would have abandoned such land. The Carrion Fangs had looked upon it and seen opportunity. Centuries later that philosophy remained visible in every stone of their fortress.