Onyx Tower

The Onyx Tower is the dwelling of Charon, the once and future Emperor of Stygia. The tallest building in Stygia, it represents Charon's power and his ability to oversee the Dark Kingdom of Iron.

It has frequently served as Charon's retreat in times of great personal crisis. Most famous is when he locked himself at the beginning of the twentieth century. His disappearance caused the Smiling Lord to declare himself Emperor, beginning the Great War that raged in Stygia for over a decade.

When Charon disappeared in 1945, the tower, save the meeting floor, remained empty until he returned during the Sixth Great Maelstrom. After the battle to save the Western Dead that resulted in the near-destruction of Stygia, the tower collapsed. One of Charon's last actions before his Transcendence was to place a shining beacon at the top of the ruined tower that would point surviving and new wraiths to the new Isle of Sorrows. By the time of the wars between Grandmother and the Malfeans occured, the beacon had long stopped shining, but the tower ruins remained as the heart of the now Nameless City.