The Palace of the Bright
The Palace of the Bright is an enormous gleaming palace several hundred miles across. Inside are vast libraries, elegant chambers, laboratories and smithies, gardens and beautifully decorated hallways.
The gods who reside here are the ones most closely related with knowledge, life and warmth, and as such the whole atmosphere is one of welcoming and contented busyness.
Each god has their own area, but these have large zones where they intermingle and collaborate, especially the sibling gods of Diancecht, Goibniu and Oghma.
The domain of Diancecht is most immediately recognisable by the perfectly green "field of the apple tree" in it's centre, in which heavily laden trees provide food to the gods and their servants. In the centre of that, in turn, is Diancecht's well, with an inviting herb garden around it. Around the edges of her field are elegant pavilions and summerhouses, as well as several buildings designed for the quiet recovery of the ill or injured.
Goibniu's cow is often seen wandering the field, but his smithies and workshops are far enough from the field that the serene atmosphere is not disturbed. It is not unusual to see Goibniu wandering the halls of the Palace between workshops and field, as one or another of his interests takes hold. The centre of Goibniu's area, however, is very firmly the great feasting hall, where gods, celestials and more gather regularly to enjoy his hospitality.
Oghma's domain, by contrast, is almost tiny (even though it stretches for dozens of miles!). A series of interconnected libraries hold all the knowledge of the races, and quiet writing chambers are filled with the hiss of quill on parchment as his servants continually add to it. Where his realm overlaps with Diancecht's, it contains endless salons with artists and musicians, and where it meets Goibniu's works of ever more detailed craftsmanship are pored over together in their workshops.
Belenus's area sits comfortably in the middle of the three, an enormous transparent dome covering miles in all directions, in which the contant sun pours down on a glorious rainforest full of life and vitality, with wading pools, treehouses, sun dappled glades and more being a full celebration of the life the sun brings.
The gods who reside here are the ones most closely related with knowledge, life and warmth, and as such the whole atmosphere is one of welcoming and contented busyness.
Each god has their own area, but these have large zones where they intermingle and collaborate, especially the sibling gods of Diancecht, Goibniu and Oghma.
The domain of Diancecht is most immediately recognisable by the perfectly green "field of the apple tree" in it's centre, in which heavily laden trees provide food to the gods and their servants. In the centre of that, in turn, is Diancecht's well, with an inviting herb garden around it. Around the edges of her field are elegant pavilions and summerhouses, as well as several buildings designed for the quiet recovery of the ill or injured.
Goibniu's cow is often seen wandering the field, but his smithies and workshops are far enough from the field that the serene atmosphere is not disturbed. It is not unusual to see Goibniu wandering the halls of the Palace between workshops and field, as one or another of his interests takes hold. The centre of Goibniu's area, however, is very firmly the great feasting hall, where gods, celestials and more gather regularly to enjoy his hospitality.
Oghma's domain, by contrast, is almost tiny (even though it stretches for dozens of miles!). A series of interconnected libraries hold all the knowledge of the races, and quiet writing chambers are filled with the hiss of quill on parchment as his servants continually add to it. Where his realm overlaps with Diancecht's, it contains endless salons with artists and musicians, and where it meets Goibniu's works of ever more detailed craftsmanship are pored over together in their workshops.
Belenus's area sits comfortably in the middle of the three, an enormous transparent dome covering miles in all directions, in which the contant sun pours down on a glorious rainforest full of life and vitality, with wading pools, treehouses, sun dappled glades and more being a full celebration of the life the sun brings.
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Dimensional, Pocket
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