Rotstein — where is it, really?
Maybe you've wondered, while reading — what did Henry actually see when he looked east from the rock, toward Kozakov? Which way did Jitka ride with Thomas and Lukas when the road turned toward Lautschky?
Here's the estate. Klokotsch, the castle, the manor, the pond at Loktush, the Stebenka winding through the valley.
And here — zoomed out — is where it sits in Bohemia.
Far north. Far from Rattay and everything that came before. Deep in what's called Český ráj — the Bohemian Paradise. Not just forest and sandstone: old volcanic country, where the hills have a different weight to them. Trosky itself — those two towers KCD2 players know so well — rises from the necks of extinct volcanoes. From its ramparts, on a clear day, you can see the rock above Klokotsch, where the castle once stood.
Henry's land begins roughly where the game's world ends.
Names shift. Distances stretch or shrink as the story needs them. The ground beneath it is real.
Henry didn't choose it. The king gave it to him.
But it chose him back.
