St. Estin charity hospital in Backlund.

St. Estin Charity Hospital begins as a modest Backlund institution in Volume 2, serving the city’s poor and sick. Across the series it becomes a nexus for clandestine medical experiments, Beyonder treatments, and political intrigue, its wards and basements repeatedly drawn into the machinations of secret organizations and the Church of the Evernight Goddess. By later volumes the hospital’s reputation shifts from charitable refuge to a place whispered about in both high society and the underworld, its corridors carrying the lingering traces of forbidden rituals and miraculous cures alike.

St. Estin charity hospital in Backlund.

St. Estin Charity Hospital begins as a modest Backlund institution in Volume 2, serving the city’s poor and sick. Across the series it becomes a nexus for clandestine medical experiments, Beyonder treatments, and political intrigue, its wards and basements repeatedly drawn into the machinations of secret organizations and the Church of the Evernight Goddess. By later volumes the hospital’s reputation shifts from charitable refuge to a place whispered about in both high society and the underworld, its corridors carrying the lingering traces of forbidden rituals and miraculous cures alike.