This village-in-ruins and Temple Hill are the only Red Cow villages in the Barrow Mounds. The chief priest of Orlanth used to dwell here, and tend the Orlanth shrine at Grave Hill.
After the Lunar Empire banned Orlanth worship, Jomes Hostralos sent soldiers to raze Lightning Lodge to the ground and arrest the chief priest Rangard Blacktooth. The soldiers captured Rangard who died in captivity, but his assistant Ashart Dusk-Eater escaped.
The soldiers stole the sacred cattle and sheep that grazed these hills and sacrificed them to the Red Goddess. Some of the clan’s red-turners even cut the sacred earth here with the plow.