The East and the West
Lystra has five major royal holdings. The central castle that is their main home. The southern castle that is their winter home. The northern castle that had once been a strategic castle during two of their great war and then there were the eastern and western reaches.
The East and west holdings are on secure land borders. In the east there is a vast desert that has currently never been successfully crossed and to the west was the Trembling Sea. This body of water had treacherous rip currents that could pull great ships out to sea, whirlpools frequently formed in the area, and there was a trench several meters from the shore that contributed to all of this and more.
In the west there was a keep but in the east there was only a watch tower, often used as a lighthouse in the past, and neither location had ever had any type of settlement.
