The Verdant Sentinel's Oath: Echoes of Frías
📍 Frías, Burgos
The Legend Begins In the heart of Castile, where the river Ebro carves its path through the ancient soil, stands the medieval town of Frías, balanced precariously atop a rugged hill. The town's silhouette is dominated by the stoic Castle of the Velasco, towering guardians of ages long past, their parapets kissed by the breath of history. It is said that long before the castle stood, the hill was home to a Druidic circle—a place of communal gatherings for harmonious rituals that free-flowed like the Ebro itself. These traditions spoke of the Verdant Sentinel, an ancient dragon whose scales shimmered with the green of the lush valley, a guardian of the land's prosperity. In the days when Romans sought dominion over these lands, whispers of the Sentinel's existence were known only to the Dru…