Market Palace
by hughpierre
Purpose / Function
A giant two-level complex for government offices and private residences for the most important officials and their entourage.
Design
Square Ring
The palace is of a hollow square layout containing a throne room, a speaking chambers, ballrooms, guard quarters, justice hall, and secret apartments for the lord's wives.Entries
Library Corner
Two two-floor doors at 90 degrees to each other open the library directly to the street for the public to freely enter and leave as they will.Temple Facing
A modest double door pointing directly to the Market Temple.Canal Direction
The frontage is as wide as a thousand feet to give quick access to the central garden plaza.Hazards & Traps
Mixed lake is an artificial lake made up of a network of canals, aqueducts, sewers, embankments; and even chinampas and smaller isolated reservoirs; separated from the natural Lake Coco by the Dike of Cranotuilloil.
Tetzcotzinco inhabits an area that still retains a semi-natural shoreline. The mixed lake's heaviest influence lies underneath the Great Garden to process waste and fertilize the plants. The rushing currents leading to and fro can often be heard under the palace floor.
Special Properties
Secret Rooms and Corridors
There are an unknown number of hidden sleeping chambers for the lord's wives, so as to disguise from them who he visits on which nights.Alterations
Lost Dome
In the past, it was the Narin king's manse and originally contained a yellow honeycombed vaulted ceiling that displayed a painted history of the family line. However, the dome was stolen from the Teiks' own palace where, to this day, remains open to the valley sky.Instructions were clear: to take the palace dome in tack so it could crown the headquarters of the Bald Ones. In the largest piece of plunder ever recorded, the teiks were force to cut up their massive monuments like they were carving a cake. And made to ferry them to Sangsalgu Proper to be remade into the foundations of a greater plan. Fortunately, even the destroyers were not able to find use for all the stone they tore down and eventually gave up for more productive tasks.
Architecture
The palace sits on top its own network of floating platforms that contributes to the same garden management as the great garden.
It is so uniform that the whole complex is able to rise and fall with the tides that come with the elder cycle, without any notice to its inhabitants.
Type
Palace
Parent Location
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Owning Organization
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