I know it used to be the capital of winterveil before it got wrecked by Ravenna, but whats the deal with the insanity, ghosts, and the creepy stuff like the skeleton hole?
in a nutshell
Nero nukes the place —> builds askurius off it —> chaos nukes it again since it sensed evil shit and chaos attracted to evil shit and chaos just nukes things for fun —> place is cursed by chaos energy
chaos is basically the strongest and oldest thing in the AU and is basically a half sentient life form that is quite literally the concept of chaos given sentience
akursius wasn’t actually winterveil, rackham’s journal states that it was actually ravenna territory before it got obliterated. no idea what the insanity 5 pit could be
It WAS winterveil, then became Ravenna territory as they started building over it to make, you know, a keep. It went like that for years until the men went insane and couldn’t leave the fortress. While the other bit is explained in Rackham’s Journal.
Gallio Bronze mentions it all during the Eternal Mines chapter.