Grey Bastion

Grey Bastion, formerly known as the White Bastion, was a floating fortress that disappeared during the Second Ruin as Ehvylus fell to the Afterkind. Originally a stationary regimental barracks, the Bastion was fortified and armed with early ahniarakk canons that would be used as a last resort should the city be overwhelmed.

Built in the centre of Ehvylus around 94BSR, the Bastion housed the forefront of the Yrdain Empire's might at the time when Yrdachai was the largest nation on Eia. When the Afterkind came, the former capital of Fordachai was almost entirely destroyed in the onslaught. At the climax of the battle, the Primonarch Galekon reinforced with his army and ordered the Bastion's secondary function be used. Through the same technology that lifted the first airships, White Bastion ripped from the ground and went skyward, lifted by a large chamber of gaseous ahniarakk and steered by great propellors. This last-ditch attempt at victory caused a devastating earthquake and levelled what remained standing in the city, but it gave the survivors enough time to rally as the Afterkind focused their attention on the floating rock above them.

Unimaginable amounts of focused energy were spewed out from the primitive canons as it laid waste to the glooms that pursued it. Galekon ordered a mass retreat to Estoland's border as the Bastion's crew headed South, where they would eventually lose control of it and disappear into Stormgate, never to be seen again.

First Sighting
Long after the Second Ruin, when it had long become a myth, the crew of a weatherbird reported seeing the silhouette of an enormous structure in the flash of lightning while surveying Stormgate. This news was brought to the Primonarch at the time, Tias, who would go on to launch an assault on the structure that had been infested by the Afterkind.