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Soissons

Neustrian Royal Capital · Seat of Chilperic I and Fredegund

Vitry

Site of Sigebert I's 575 Shield-Raising and Assassination

The Pyrenees Mountains

The Frontier Where Two Kingdoms and Two Worlds Meet

Brú na Bóinne

The Palace of the Boyne

Corinth

First Eastern Landfall in the Byzantine Empire

The Afflicted Village

An Unnamed Rural Settlement Devastated by the Pestilence

Hagia Sophia

The Cathedral That Redefined Sacred Space

The Plague-Stricken Church

An Unnamed Constantinople Church Turned Makeshift Hospital

The Sacred Grove

Where the Veil Grows Thin

Constantinople

The Byzantine Capital — Justinian's Empire at Its Height, and the Stage for Book II

Paris

Clovis's chosen capital — and the site of Merona's descent through the catacombs to the Labyrinth's second entrance

Gascogne

Pentagram Point: Terra / Earth — Upper-Left Point of the Pattern

Rennes

Pentagram Point: Ignis / Fire — Lower-Left Point of the Pattern

Southern Gaul — The Pentagram's Center

The Sacred Pattern — A Journey Written Across the Land

The Labyrinth

The Series' Central Magical Structure

Tournai

The Cradle of the Merovingian Dynasty · Site of the Fog of Tournai

Droizy

Site of the 596 Battle of the Moving Forest

Grotte du Mas-d'Azil

The Cave That Swallows a River

Arelate

Francia's Mediterranean Departure Point

The Overland Road East

The Horse Route Between Corinth and Lampsacus

Lampsacus

The Final Embarkation for Constantinople

Great Palace

The Seat of Justinian and Theodora

The Ancient Catacombs and Subterranean Labyrinth

Beneath Constantinople — Where the Veil Runs Deepest

Burdigala

The Walled City on the Garonne

Ireland

Across the western sea — home to Slane's monastery, and the threshold nearest Tír na nÓg

Bugarach

Pentagram Point: Aether / Air — Top Point of the Pattern

Le Rhône

Pentagram Point: Aqua / Water — Upper-Right Point of the Pattern

Septimania

Pentagram Point: Spiritus / Home — the Series' Home Anchor

Narbonne

Capital of Visigothic Septimania