Ancestral home and Great House of the Domain of Alton, described as "a wide-flung house . . . built of blue-grey stone with wide, spaces of translucence in the stone walls . . ." Much of the action of The Spell Sword takes place in Armida and surrounding villages. Site of a horse-ranch; Regis Hastur's mare Melisande was a gift of Kennard Alton, as was the mare ridden by Danilo Syrtis. Site of the "Forbidden Tower" experiments conducted by Damon Ridenow as Keeper with a Circle comprising Callista, Ellemir and Andrew Carr during the years following the Catmen's War.