Caltess

The Caltess Fight Hall is a major entertainment venue in Verity, The Empire. It is owned by Partnis Reeve who both runs professional ring-fighters and trains them. Trainees with the Gerant and Hunska traits are bought as young children, often from child-takers such as Giljohn. Until the traits begin to show, they live in the attic of the Caltess, receiving little training and doing odd-jobs around the fight-hall. If selected to become apprentices, they move to the barracks and receive intense training for years to become professional fighters. A notable annual event is the Caltess-Forging, where novices from the convent of Sweet Mercy are pitted against attic-children and apprentices. Nona Grey spends a few months at the Caltess after being sold by Giljohn, until an ugly incident occurs with the ring-fighter Raymel Tacsis. She later returns for the Caltess-Forging.