The Kingdom
The largest organised authority in the realm: a walled mountain city of order, law, guards, and its own secrets.
The Kingdom rules from a city built into a mountain. Its walls, drawbridges and gates make it defensible. Its upper districts belong to the royal and the wealthy; its lower ones to the workers, merchants and ordinary people who keep it alive.
It is a place of law. Guards identify crimes by sight or by witness. Dark Relief casting is disapproved, theft is illegal, assault is illegal. You may accept an arrest, bribe your way out if you have learned how, or refuse and be fought. Prisoners are held in the Kingdom’s cells and their belongings confiscated until the sentence is served.
Order is not goodness. The Kingdom keeps secrets of its own, and its rulers are not infallible. The court also keeps the Mage, whose family is the Hidden Village.
Harm the crown and the guards remember it permanently.