The Blood Pit

A large arena in the capital city of Janisora that was renowned for its bloody contests where thousands of gladiators and slaves alike met their end in the name of sport. Gladiatorial contests were popular across the continent and even more so across the Torso region, but the Janisorans based their culture around the blood sport and constructed a grand arena to hold large contests; the likes that had never been seen before.

The arena received its name after the first month of games in which the Janisoran king ordered that the blood from all of the contests be left to dry in the dirt to commemorate the special occasion. In the first month alone, hundreds of contests took place with over a thousand men and women slain and their blood spilled across the arena sand, the arena floor looked like a pool of blood by the end of the month as the blood congealed and made the arena unable to fight in. The games though continued for another week and hundreds more died; often even the victors as their battle wounds came in contact with the bad blood that covered the arena floor. Only after three of the city's champion fighters died from their wounds and not in actual contest did the king order that the arena be closed and cleaned for games to resume. The name however stuck and the Blood Pit became one of the greatest venues for gladiatorial combat.