Rooster's Rest

When the glorious Fey city of Cynosure is approached from the south, it is sheltered by a low, short mountain range. There is a number of narrow gorges that lead into the settlement, and one of them is overseen and protected by Rooster's Rest, a small keep that appears Dwarven in origin. It leads directly to the Spectacle Street quarter of the city. 

During Go East, Young Dryad, having access the damaged database of an Elven gwyddfa in Cynosure, Reiko Amiri learned that this place used to be called ᚲᛟᚷ-ᚻᛖᛟᛚ (Kog-heol, "???" in Dwarven), or Faug-Negyth Outpost in Elven, with the following meaning:

The keep itself is situated around the halfway mark, where the pass reaches its highest point. It is mostly carved into the mountain, but its front side sticks out, and features a geometric statue of a Dwarven torso. During winter, the interior is kept warm and cosy. 

Numerous ancillary structures – walls, towers, gatehouses, stables, barracks, and kitchens – prevent easy passage through this gorge, and they look like they were built at a later date, since their aesthetics do not match the keep.

Variously intact stone statues – the product of domesticated Cockatrices that prowl this area, which seem to have given this place its name – flank the road in an orderly manner, or otherwise litter the surroundings in a haphazard fashion instead, often piled together in small heaps. 

Past one of the gatehouses, a statue often blocks the way forward. It is leaning against a stone greathammer, and there is either a plant with cyan-and-gold bark growing out of its back, or that is also an intended part of the sculpture. Even more gilded elements appear in the form of a patterned mask instead of a face, greaves on its calves, and accents of its clothing. This, in fact, is not a statue at all, but a Lampad, a rocky, subterranean kind of Nymph. His name is Gathol, and he is the Captain of the Guard.