Skarsi Ak

Skarsi Ak is the ancient castle home of Clan Vahl, located in the east of the Upper Vale. Like many Upper Vale Castles it is positioned upon a small mountain making it highly defensible, it commands lands with incredible wealth in stone, the finest in the High Vale and a large deposit of the rare purple rock porphyry, a wealth that has long been the strength of Clan Vahl.

Structure
Skarsi Ak has eight tall towers, connected by a curtain wall surrounding a broad octagonal keep, the towers are each connected to the keep by tall arch bridges, this appearance has caused the castle to be referred to as "The Spider" and it's towers as "the Spiders Legs" excluding one whose bridge was destroyed in battle and is so named the "Lonely Leg". The bridge was felled during the War of the Kurgans by the Child Kurgan.

The entire castle is decorated with porphry inlays and designs often depicting spiders and webs, the most spectacular being the porphry roofed spires of the spiders legs.