Elf Queen’s Palace.
Home to the court of the rose throne, the palace consists of a tower of eight giant trees in a clearing in the heart of Blood Wood. The trees grow in a circle, their trunks as thick as taverns. The branches wind around each other, linking the trees in intricate patterns, as if they had been grown to create this order, and through the order, to become beautiful.
The palace stands eight floors high. The lower floor contains a ballroom and other public chambers.
On the next two floors are quarters for the Elven Queen’s guards and personal advisors. Above that is a floor devoted to the Court’s bizarre magicians and the laboratories. The fifth and sixth floors contain guest chambers, though they most often stand empty. The top two floors belong to the Elven Queen: the uppermost floor contains a hall filled with gifts brought to Queen Alachia by visitors to Blood Wood, as well as her private chamber. An open wall of the bed chamber looks out over Blood Wood. From this vantage point, the forest spreads out like the still surface of a bright green lake.
…We stood before the palace of the Elven Queen.
Flowering vines grew between the trees, forming elaborate patterns. So thick did the vines grow that they created walls—walls covered with large green leaves and white and violet flowers at least two hand-widths across. The walls of vines had many openings, like windows, draped in intricate spider webs. Catching the sunlight, the webs turned it into a rainbow of colours.
White bones of many shapes and sizes fitted together to create a staircase that led to the palace doors. The doors were made of rose bushes grown so thick they blocked all light from passing through them.
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