Sugar Hills is a vast land made entirely of candy, somewhere across The Void. It is home to many kinds of people and is a huge marketplace for goods and wares. The underground candy market runs through it, and most visitors come for leisure and a good time. Thea said it looks like Candyland but sounds like “a white woman’s home in a suburban landscape.”
Description
The streets and sidewalks are icing deep enough to drown in, and a paved road runs behind the shops. Everything is lickable. Candy music plays across every street, constantly. The stalls sell carnival food: funnel cakes, deep-fried Oreos, candied hot dogs and every sort of baked good. Its residents include goblins, chinchillas, kobolds, halflings and gnomes, and there are gummy gnomes almost as big as the real ones. Candy cane trees line the road, and at its end stands a giant castle of gingerbread and cupcake toppings with a chocolate-bar drawbridge over a moat of syrup. It looks like the kind of place where a witch lives.
History
The Arbiter brought Thea here for her day off in S7E10 — Thea’s Adventure, while he did some diplomatic business at the candy castle. Thea threatened Emmery at his franchised Number Two Hot Chocolate stand until he gave up his 1994 Pontiac Bonneville. She drove it down the sidewalks, drowned an old man in icing, and took forty candy-cane shivs from a knife seller named Baptiste without paying. Then she bailed out and let the car roll on. Pretty much everyone her brother Theo had spoken to was run over. Gummy worms, broken stalls and bleeding townsfolk covered the road, and the shops caught fire.
Things got worse at the castle. Theo set off the Thermopolis, and the blast melted Sugar Hills for miles. The candy oozed away until nothing was left in front of the castle, and the drawbridge melted into the syrup. The Arbiter rewound time, and then Theo blew himself up again, taking Strako with him. Sugar Hills was left a melted wasteland once more.
Notable Figures
- Emmery, who runs Emmery’s Number Two Hot Chocolate here.
- Baptiste of the Faithful, who sells sharpened candy-cane shivs.
- Frank of the Faithful, who can candy anything, including people if you’re rich.