The Castle of the Ard-Ri is a well guarded secret of Skellig Michael. Only members that carry the badge of the Island are granted entry. Numerous Shadow Minions guard the entrance and remain hidden until they are needed. If a person trys to enter the Castle that is not a member, the Shadow Minions attack them and take them into the shadow lands where the ghosts and wraiths can have their fun, that is if the Shadow Minions do not kill them themselves. Upon walking through the door in the rear of the Sanctuary, you come along a long narrow passage way carved out of rock that leads to the heart of the Castle. The castle is protected by Earth Elementals that live with in the mountain itself and watch over the walls day and night. These elementals also show themselves on the surface from time to time. There are countless rooms and passageways that run through out the castle itself, to map it all would take more then one lifetime. It seems as if the passageways themselves shift from time to time making it hard to remember how to get back to a certain room. The walls themselves constantly shift and that is because of the living shadows that roam the place, if you are in there with peacefull intentions, then you have nothing to fear from them. It is from the Castle that you can find a passage way that leads under water to Little Skellig. Now do not worry, time has never known this passage to shift to another location. There are passage ways that lead under the surface of the water, but these have not been explored as of yet.
In the center of the Castle itself is the chambers of the Ard-Ri and a pool of scrying ((seeing what is happening on all of the Island)).
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