Hundred Lantern Hall

With its four turrets topped with ever-burning braziers, the building known as Hundred Lantern Hall is an iconic part of Khara's skyline. It is a historic building, old even among the city's Ancient Quarter, constructed of native limestone some 900 years ago. From its position at the edge of Lake Khara, it stands as a bastion of justice and peace; for the last four hundred years, it has served as the home base of the Kharaian branch of the Dawn Legion.
Primarily, the hall serves as a base of operations for the Legion with everything from living quarters to training grounds to an armory. Forty-five full-time Legionnaires are quartered at the Hundred Lantern Hall, and a further two hundred and fifty report to the hall regularly to consult with leadership. At the building's heart is the Lantern Court, a grandiose courtroom used for formal trials ran by the Legion; though these trials are rare, occasional matters of ceremony make up for that by providing another purpose for the Court.
Its namesake hundred lanterns are bronze fixtures lit with ever-burning magical flame, all bolted in a straight row across the top of the building. Each represents one legionnaire in the original Kharaian Dawn Legion, and each has a name chiseled into the limestone above it, surrounded by a stylized sun. These lanterns are dimmed only in recognition of a death, either that of a Kharaian legionnaire or a higher authority within the Legion, after which their glow is made faint for the following three days.

History

When it was built in 302 YW, the structure was intended to serve as a manor for the Esriu family, a line of aristocrats who ruled Khara for about six centuries. Under the name Hawkshead View, the manor housed generations of the Esriu family line while they remained in control of the city. The Esriu family line ended about five hundred years after the manor's construction, circa 200 YC, and their manor stood empty for about a century and a half. In the late 340s, as the Thassalar family rose to power in Khara, the building was repurposed after the pious Lord Elaisen Cerath Thassalar, the first Thassalar Duke of Khara, offered to help finance the conversion of the abandoned manor into a hall for the Dawn Legion's use. It has remained in the ownership of the Dawn Legion ever since.

Founding Date

302 YW

Alternative Names

Legion Hall

Type

Guildhall