Grand Arena

The Grand Arena is the imperial arena of Arwintar in Overlord, a government property and one of the landmarks of the Baharuth Empire's capital. It hosts the Grand Combat Tournament and regular gladiatorial bouts, and private parties rent it out for events of their own, which makes it one of the chief sources of entertainment in the city. Knights come to bet on the outcomes. Defeat no longer carries an automatic death sentence as it once did, though fighters still die in the ring often enough that a day without a fatality is rare, and priests are kept on hand to heal the wounded afterward. Much of the Empire's fighting talent ends up here, and teams have been matched against continuous waves of monsters as well as against each other. Flight and teleportation magic are barred, after one adventurer team took to the air and won a bout so one-sidedly that the crowd lost interest.