In this example, are the subject and complement inverted, or could it be possible to understand that ‘The thing’ or something of the subject of verb ‘was’ is dropped?
Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.
Answer
While it may appear that the subject is "dropped" (also called "understood"), this is an example of inversion.
You could think of the sentence as simply: "Perched on a mountain was a castle,"
akin to the example sentence: "Lost among the old tables and chairs was the priceless Victorian desk," which is one of the 18 kinds of sentence inversions, called "intro -ed" described at:
http://www.testmagic.com/grammar/explanations/inversion.htm
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