The First Palace

You feel the difference the moment you step over the red line, where many tourists cautiously stick a toe or a hand. The essence and energy that has been with you since birth begins to drain out of you, an almost nauseating feeling, like having to throw up and having nothing left to throw up. You try, out of curiosity to cast a flame into your palm, finding that familiar sensation is oddly cold in the air, an absence made all the more sharp by this strange lacking, You pass further in, feeling the absence grow somehow stronger, as though the power of this place can somehow take more than nothing. Finally you reach the edge of the stairs, somehow acclimating to the drowning sensation, you begin to scale the stairs, built at an impossibly ancient time.

Use

Original

Originally this was the seat of power for The First, who was the leader of the Primordials. It was primarily ued as a living space and meeting place. After his death during the Deitic War it was abandoned for many years.

Modern

In the modern day, due to the unique effects of The First having lived there for so long, many tourists come to experience both the beauty of the castle and the strange magical sensations.

Architecture

Exterior

The towers thin and shift a more modern style towards the top.

The exterior of the Palace has been said to be similar to both brutalist and modern architecture. Towards the bottom it emphasizes large stone pillars and square shapes, which give the impression of it rising from the earth. Then as it transitions to the top, stone gives way into more and more glass, allowing for the upper layers of the building to have an incredible amount of sunlight from the nearby Sol. It has been said that the sunrises in these rooms are some of the the greatest in all the cosmos.

Interior

We believe this room is themed around Chartreuse, given the heavy emphasis on fire and yellow...

— Excerpt from the tour of The First Palace

The interior is decorated quite lavishly, with a heavy emphasis on color. Each of the rooms has its own unique color, for which the room is both themed (in the sense of the cyan room containing fish) and color coordinated to their respective colors. In addition, examining the physical architecture, the rooms are subtly crafted to establish access. Certain doorways are large enough for certain Deitic Beings, and slowly decrease in size to hide the more private back rooms. The architecture of the entry way emphasizes this, being large enough to host even Titans.

Defences

The original defenses of The First Palace are largely decorative, with the large wall around the palace being carved with the stories of The Cosmos. The wall was largely designed to draw focus to the central entrance, and the tradition of carving the wall was started by The First. The tradition continues to this day, with additions to the remaining sections being selected by way of an annual art competition. There are plans to build a second wall, mimicking the original's style and construction, once The First fills up.

The Magic

The regions main pull with both tourists and scientists is the unique magical effect the permeates throughout this building. Similar to the effects of an Antiamge, the building nullifies the effects of any Magic user.

The red caution barriers prevent those will magical health devices from crossing, and caution magic users to acclimate before crossing

This feeling is said to be incredibly strange (see above prose), and is enjoyed as a sort of "thrill." This affect is due to The First's magic building up during the time they stayed there. This sensation and effect grows stronger as you get closer to The First's chambers, where they spent the majority of their time.

A corner section, emphasizing the height of the building

Type: Building

Located in: Eternia

Owned by: Eternia tourism board

Built: Approx. 10 billion BM

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