Lamplighter HQ

Lamplighter HQ (also known as HQ, Lamplighter Keep and sometimes jokingly as Control's House) was the seat of power for The Lamplighters organisation. It was the main residence of the Director of the Lamplighters, Control, housing for the Powers That Be and other staff members, training facilities for each Department, and the Archives; a vast collection of books and information gathered by the Agents over the decades.

Lamplighter HQ was destroyed several years ago in a second attack orchestrated by The Curator and Department Four, and resulted in the deaths of several Agents and The Powers That Be. The Lamplighters were able to rescue Control from the crumbling facility, but the structure and its contents were deemed unrecoverable.

Though the Agents relocated to Dalaran City and use it for the bulk of their off-duty business, the current whereabouts of the new Lamplighter HQ, and Control, is a closely guarded secret.

Exterior
Located within one of the many valleys in the Redridge Mountain range, Lamplighter HQ appeared as little more than a stone door with runic markings positioned securely over the mouth of a cave. A narrow mountain path leads up to the area before widening to a flat, open plateau approximately thirty feet before the entryway. Passage over the mountains in any other direction is difficult and treacherous, though access via the air is still possible.

Antechamber
A long corridor with several branching rooms, dormitories and pathways broke away from the main antechamber inside the doors of Lamplighter HQ. Here the names of all the previous serving Lamplighters were documented upon the walls, with likenesses of the longer serving ones made into stone edifices lined the walls and turned their heads deeper inside the Headquarters.

Soft pleasant lights hovered above the walls and the offshoots contained storage lockers, an armoury, meeting rooms and study halls for trusted visitors, Agents or The Powers That Be to use at their leisure. At the end of the antechamber, the hallway banked sharply to the left and rounded a corner, leading into the main section of the building.

Living Quarters and Monitoring Station
A suitable living space for as many as a hundred people was situated past the Antechamber of Lamplighter HQ, stocked and provisioned with enough water and salted produce to outlast a long siege. Kitchens, dining rooms, recreational areas and lodgings were all situated here with each Agent and Staff Member at full capacity to still have their own living space.

In this room also was located the monitoring stations. Feeds that were sent directly to Control were also copied and filed here, allowing Agents to review the incoming information and discuss them between themselves and Control themselves if they so wish. The station also covered the exterior of the HQ and screen approaching visitors.

Training Facilities
The differing Departments train in different ways but all Agents are able to use each other's facilities to keep their skills sharp in any particular area they wish. Primarily, the sparring ring allowed full contact sparring with no danger of injury or dying due to the pacification field in place.

The Seekers had access to laboratory space, workshops and experimentation sites to test arefacts found and technologies invented at their own leisure. They also had simpler lecture halls where they could share their findings, and discussion rooms where they could create hypotheses and peer review each other's work.

Emissaries had a variety of different social situations able to be fully simulated, along with fully programmed constructs designed to have differing dispositions so they could try different tactics in a safe environment. Charisma classes were regularly held, a bar and performance stage was made available so storytellers, minstrels and bards were able to keep their vocal and instrument skills at their peak.

The Archives
The Archives had copies of most of the collection stored in The Seeker's Library which were transcribed and stored by the Staff Members when they were able. This backup was essential following the destruction of Dalaran City in the Third War in restoring The Lamplighters' access to information, though unfortunately some documentation was still lost to time due it not being a perfect replication of the collection. Some of the benign yet useful artefacts were also situated here to be used by visitors and Agents when they so wished, such as the relaxation sphere that emitted a calming aura that affected those in its vicinity.

A large carriage elevator surrounded by reinforced glass was situated at the far end of the Archives. With the correct access granted, it would lead approximately a mile underground to where Control resided.

Director's Residence
Very few people have seen inside the rooms where Control lived. Until Operation: Light's Out! only the Circle Members had been permitted access inside. Agents described the rooms as spotlessly clean, with aesthetically pleasing decorations, simple living quarter space and with most of the space taken up by a vast networking system that studied and monitored reports from all across Azeroth.

New Lamplighter HQ
Following the destruction of The Seeker's Library during The Fourth War, Control recovered in Ironforge while the Third Circle found them a new place to create a Headquarters. Finding a suitable location, they transported Control there and, with the help of the Alliance initiative T.A.R.O.T, destroyed most documentation as to where its location was.

At time of writing, the new Lamplighter HQ remains a close secret, with only the Hands and a select number of Agents aware of its whereabouts. No description of its exterior of interior will be documented so as not to leave clues as to where its location could be.

Notable Residents
Control

The Powers That Be (formerly)