A map depicting the Grey Mountains where the Bretonnian castle known as the Chateau de Chegney is located.
The Chateau de Chegney is a castle ruled by the Viscount Augustine de Chegney.[1a]
The centuries hung heavy within the great hall of the Chateau de Chegney. For a thousand years House de Chegney had dwelled in the massive, brooding, stone fortress, guarding the narrow Iron Pass through the Grey Mountains that linked the Kingdom of Bretonnia with the sprawling Empire.[1a]
The lands ruled by the viscounts de Chegney had alternately prospered or suffered under their lords, accepting their justice and tyranny alike with the dogged stoicism and subservience of the Bretonnian peasant, but seldom had they bowed their heads in fealty to so terrible a man as he who now sat brooding within the castle's great hall.[1a]