Timeline: TC1853.01.24 (Morning)
Location: Blackhawk Guild Fortress, Seventh Ring
The Blackhawk Guild fortress rose from Seventh Ring streets like something carved from the bones of old wars. Towering stone walls—weathered gray shot through with darker veins—stretched upward three stories, their surfaces marked by what looked like claw marks but were actually deliberate architectural choices meant to evoke their namesake predator. Training fields sprawled to the south, already alive with activity despite the early hour. The clash of steel on steel rang across open ground where recruits practiced formations under watchful eyes.
Raven stood at the main gates beside Grandpa Coop, taking it all in with the careful assessment of someone who'd survived too many battles across too many lifetimes to ever approach an unknown facility without mentally mapping exits, blind spots, and potential threats.
