High Court of Crysalion
Purpose / Function
The court of Crysalion is, at first, a church for the god (deity), but it's architecture differs from usual buildings of worship. The court serves as a stable of the law where they are approved by the current ruler, which is usually a good sign of stability. The court serves as a place of worship and respite for their followers, but also is open to the public to deal with justice affairs and overall law such as taxes and certifications. A courthouse is available past the main tables for more mundane affairs.
Sensory & Appearance
Outside of daylight time, the court's lighting of rooms is done through magical fire to reduce risks of hazards. At the entrance, small censers let a earthy and moderate smell. The type of censer sticks varies from regional preferences, but those in large cities favors sandalwood.
Denizens
Tax representatives, license certificators, paladins/law-enforcers, solicitor/notaries, arbiter, linguists, law scholars, lawyers, mediators and prison security.
Valuables
Acting as holders of wills and perquisitioned good, the basement of the high court is often having a treasury holding variours legal papers of monetary values, physical goods and some ilelgal goods kept in custody, away from the public until they are dispatched. The amount of value varies of the frequency of tax collection going to the local ruler and overall market fluctuations depending on the settlement's growth. Those treasuries are, however, extremely well protected and few criminals can boast to have stolen from the Vault of an High Court of Crysalion.
Alterations
In the first iteration, only one entrance was made in order to symbolize the court is transparent and you cannot enter through it by back door dealings and similar symbolism.
However, the criminal fire of (event) showcased the danger of a sole entrance which may jeopardize people's safety if such entrance was blocked. Thus, recent version now offers side entrances, but most of them are used for large transportation and import/export of evidence or other objects that needs protection from the church.
Architecture
The High Court's architecture, in the most recent and frequent occurrences, gets inspired of palladin and high gothic architectures. Stone or brick is heavily present in those, and molding work adds up to an architecture that is showcasing a lot of symmetry, giving an organised and clean look. Glasswork acting as lightwells are also common, but said glass is usually devoid of art inside of it, outside of simple symmetrical designs on rare, avoiding extravagant and abstract representations. So details on the molding works and archs remains visible in order to give a little bit of variety, but remains in good taste and simple. Floors are usually treated wood, usually oak or ebony. Colors remains in simple tones such as cream, grey, wood brown, black and white.
Ruling/Owning Rank
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