A Castle built on two rock located in front of the coast. This way the part with the keep and the palace could be seperated from the other part with barracks stables and the other buildings.
5th century A.D.: These are the final days of the roman empire. The Limes may have been completey enlarged, but there were not enough troops to patrol atop the walls and man the towers. Thus the barbaric tribes are becoming bolder at start to attack the towers after nightfall.
A group of knights was sent to undiscovered lands on a quest for glory and treasures. Instead they only found the remains of ancient civilisations. These ruins are now overrun by followers of unspeakable cults of evil and their twisted and undead servants.
From WIkipedia: "In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, some doctors wore a beak-like mask which was filled with aromatic items. The masks were designed to protect them from putrid air, which (according to the miasmatic theory of disease) was seen as the cause of infection."