WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Marauders #3, by Gerry Duggan, Michele Bandini, Elisabetta D’Amico, Federico Blee, VC’s Cory Petit and Tom Muller, on sale now.
A person's home can reveal a lot about them. It's where they feel safest, with many elements of their personality bleeding through certain elements of their decor. Like the rest of Marvel's mutants, the X-Men have a new home on the island nation of Krakoa. And now, some key members of the X-Men have put their claim on some their little piece of the lush sentient island.
In Marauders #3, Kitty Pryde, Sebastian Shaw and Emma Frost, the three new leaders of the Hellfire Trading Company, the latest incarnation of the Hellfire Club carved out a slice of mutant paradise for themselves by establishing their respective headquarters in Hellfire Bay.
THE RED KEEP
Kitty Pryde's Red Keep is the least over-the-top base in the Marauders Bay. The base is shown growing out of the rocky cliffs of the bay, with a single gate at the base of the mountain. While the interior of the Keep is never actually shown, the gate suggests that there is indeed a base within the cliffside. Since Kitty Pryde - the Red Queen - doesn't spend nearly as much time as the White Queen and the Black King on Krakoa itself, it makes sense that it's a more small-scale location.
Pryde spends most of her time with the Marauders, trying to free mutants entrapped in terrible places around the world. That could be the reason that she hasn't built up her base as much as the others. It also has touches of nature within walls of the bases, seemingly including actual parts of Krakoa around the massive red treetops. This is actually a little surprising, considering how Kitty doesn't have the ability to cross the Krakoa gates with the ease of the others mutnats.
BLACKSTONE
Blackstone is the home to the Black King of the Hellfire Company, Sebastian Shaw, who oversees Hellfire's black market pharmaceutical smuggling operations. This forces him to have a certain sense of disconnect from the rest of the group. His base is the most isolated of the three locations in Hellfire Bay, with a massive tree-like bridge connecting the keep which resides on a small island in the middle of the bay.
The isolation benefits the more criminal enterprises of Shaw, and makes him stand out amongst the rest of the group. With Shaw planning on manufacturing drama between the rest of the Hellfire Club and his newly established Bishop (his resurrected son Shinobi), it makes sense for him to establish a stronghold that would be easier to defend than other locations on the new island nation, since its somewhat removed from the rest of the island.
THE WHITE PALACE
Emma Frost, the acting chief member of the Hellfire Company, has the base that feels the most lived-in and adjusted to the universe around it. The vines of Krakoa are wrapped around the diamond walls of the White Palace, referencing Emma Frost's secondary mutation to turn her skin to a diamond form, as well as her general status as one of the hardest members of the X-Men to emotionally break. It also is the highest up location of the three, giving her a greater view than the others and outright allows her to look down on her supposed equals within the Hellfire Corporation.
It's fitting for Emma, who's embraced the trappings of high society, even when the rest of the society looks down on mutants. It's a shining, beautiful home for Emma. But unlike Sebastian, whose base is pushed away from the rest of the mutants around him, Emma's base is still a part of the island and connected closer Krakoa, reflecting the greater role she has within the X-Men than Shaw.