The enclave of Quagmire levitates over the Watercourse and the Marsh of Simplicity in this year. The city streets are bathed in constant rainfall and slippery moss, and the buildings are always in a state of mildew. The archwizard who controls the floating city is extremely secretive, and not even the other archwizards knew who he was. Some thought he was a lizardman shaman form the Marsh of Simplicity who was slowly draining the resources from the city and giving it to his ground-dwelling associates. Others believed he was a vampire whose skin could never touch the light of day, feeding upon anything that approuched Quagmire from the ground, including the lizardmen living in the marsh.
Aboard this flying citadel is a temple to the god Targus (Garagos). The archwizard forced his army to follow Targus, who taught bloodthirsty, single-minded battle lust. It was said that the fiercest warriors hailed from Quagmire, and the next barbarous lot followed a distant second.
The temple, built to look like a huge helm with two axes above the metallic roof, looked subtly like crossed bones. The building is six stories tall, allowing those within to look upon its eerie exterior. The first five floors are dedicated to the practice of skill-at-arms. Archanists and priests are not allowed into the school, since they had a more mystical approach to warfare skill.
The higher into the building one traveled, the more powerful and more skilled one became. The first floor taught warriors of 1st through 6th level; the second prepared those 7th through 12th level; the third floor educated those of 13th through 18th level; the fourth taught 19th to 24th level; the fifth floor-schooled those of 25th level and above. The sixth floor of the building housed 66 priests and underpriests who taught and brainwashed followers into Targus' service. They were very effective, yet they couldn't seem to convert all within Quagmire to the Brotherhood of Blood. »