House of Glass
One of the seats of political power in the Murgothi Confederacy. Located in Sil Tuva, it has been controlled by the Ilsuvaati family since 193 OA. It is considered to be the grandest individual holding in all of the confederacy.
Architecture
More mountain than building in form, the House of Glass stands over 200 feet tall with a base nearly 400 feet in width. Its semitranslucent walls cast prisms of light onto the desert sand from which it was made. Jagged glass protrusions jutting out from its sides contrast against the building's overall sleek appearance. Hardened clay and sandstone make up the entrance to this marvel, filling in what was once a much large entrance.
Inside, the sandstone walls continue to fill in the glass structure with more rectangular rooms and hallways. The ceilings here reach to heights 50 feet or more above the floors. Each room has been ostentatiously decorated with exquisite works of glass, gold, and silver. Its most famous decorations, however, is the intricate network of flowing sands clowly creeping along the walls. In the central chamber, a pillar of sand falls from above into a pit, dropping hundreds of feet out of sight. Two rivers of sand flow along the floor, next to the walls of the throne room. They move from the entrance towards the back of the room, at which point they combine and rise to the ceiling in a specacular golden curtain behind the throne itself.
Beneath the surface, majesty gives way to the utilitarian. A sandstone labyrinthine of rooms, corridors, and caverns burrows deep into the desert sands. The first level is well organized to allow servants to work diligently. Little is known about what lies deeper, save for the Ilsuvaati themselves.
History
In 319 BKO, the dragon Qisset arrived at the Talvolin Oasis and was immediately showered with gifts and pleas for protection. He decided to stay and began building his new lair, a mountain of glass carefully sculpted by melting a molding the sands with his firey breath. After Qisset's death in 13 BKO, the inhabitants of the oasis grew greedy. Led by members of the Sureth family they sley Qisset's children and mate and took the lair and all its treasures for themsleves. The House of Glass would be a point of contention amongst powerful families and warlords in the desert and would change hands dozens of times. The Ilsuvaati would take control of the holding in 193 OA and after helping to form the Murgothi Confederacy in 197 OA, their claim would be solidified in law.
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