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Palace of a Thousand Colors

The home of the Empress of Azberná and the central government building of the Empire of Azberná
It was erected from pure magic in the 13th Century by Empress Braëla Manos and another mysterious architect in the main islet of Leddíntonne, Isle of Root. It's land wide famous for its moving thousand colors of the facade and for its constantly emitting music across the capital city. 

The structure is seven-store high. The Divine Family has their living quarters on the seventh floor, and their honorable guests occupy the rooms from the forth to the sixth floors. 

"The palace was a brave peninsula surrounded by cliffs on almost all sides. The gigantic building was as large as the Mansion’s Clearing, with a complex façade seven stories high. It was so complex that it was difficult to fully understand its architectural lines, covered by moving depictions of all colors. The Palace was both real and an illusion, both far and near, both static and shifting. It was made of pure magic! It was a temple dedicated to the Gods and magic more than a center of government. And even more magical was this structure emitting actual music! Music! That spread magically throughout the city! The whole Palace was a surreal work!"
In In Between Lives, chap.22



 

Secret Rooms

"I turned my back to the window and pulled the golden bell over my bedside table. Instantaneously, the corner left of the window opened slightly on both sides. I went along the narrow hidden corridors of the palace, as I did every night since I learned how to walk. I went down the usual ramps to the fourth floor, turned left twice and right thrice, and got to the worn-out wooden door ajar that let out soft music suited for mental exercises." (...) "With ballerina steps, I discreetly ventured through the books by the wall against the windows until I reached the door between the twenty-seventh and the twenty-eighth bookcases. On both sides, twenty-nine more doors covered the wall, merely decorative and deceiving as they led nowhere. Only this one opened to a small room.  “Mystia,” I whispered the password.  I turned the doorknob carefully and entered the dark room, the only light coming from the tiny golden stars that floated over the few bookcases and a round table at a corner facing the door, a strategic place to keep an eye on the door while reading secret texts."
In In Between Times, Chap.4
 

Royal Library

On the forth floor.  
"The library’s central area was a room precisely one square mile wide, organized in forty parallel pairs of bookcases, asleep in the lazy silence of the long afternoon. Large windows, crafted in white wood, lighted the library with narrow rays of sunshine that insisted on passing between the imposing shelves so that the scholars spread across the lone tables could enjoy their reading."
In In Between Times, Chap.4
   


Tourism

It is possible to pay for a night in the Palace.


Founding Date
c.1200
Alternative Names
Thousand Colors
Type
Palace
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