Highcliff Garrison is a fortified port city set where mountain stone meets the southern sea. Its walls are older than the Scourge, or any living memory of why they were first raised. The original stone bastions still bracket the harbor, smoothed by salt and time, their foundations deeper than the city that now clings to them.

When people emerged from the vaults, Highcliff was intact enough to be reclaimed rather than rebuilt. The docks were cleared, the towers were reoccupied, and what had once guarded an older world was pressed back into service for a new one.

Highcliff is often described as the guardian of the southern strait, though it does not stand closest to the passage itself. That role belongs to 

, a smaller outpost overlooking the narrow channel through which all sea traffic must pass. Signals from the keep can be seen from Highcliff’s upper towers, ensuring that pirates cannot slip eastward unseen and unanswered.

To most, Highcliff is a reassurance. Yet there is a quieter unease as well. These fortifications were not built by the people who now rely on them, and no one remembers the full measure of what they were once meant to control.