Capricorn's fortress

Capricorn's fortress is a place where, before being read out of Inkheart by Mortimer Folchart, Capricorn ruled. It was his own little stone palace in which, he and his fire-eaters would plot plans. When Teresa "Resa" Folchart was read into Inkheart Mortimer, she had to serve Mortola, better known as the Magpie. Resa was ordered to help her brew poisions and potions near the depths of Capricorn's Fortress. Mortola kept a large secret though: Capricorn was her son. Capricorn loved ruling his gang and devising nasty plans, so he payed no attention to his mother, instead making her his maidservant. Mortola loved her son dearly, even though he didn't bother caring for him.

When Orpheus, a man from our world, read Mortimer "Mo", Resa, Basta and Mortola into the Inkworld, they arrived right outside Capricorn's Fortress. Mortola desperately tried in vain to kill Mo and end his life, just like he did to Capricorn, her beloved boy. She was to kill Mo right outside her son's fortress, originally hoping for him to be there, alive and well, ready to watch the man who only tried to kill him, die. But Capricorn was dead, and Mortola wounded Mo with a gun from our world. He was very close to Death, dying in front of the fortress, until Resa and some robbers helped him to the Secret Camp.

Mortola and Basta scampered away and seeked power behind the darkest lord, The Adderhead, instead. Capricorns Festung