Acropolis Amanita

Dominhall's secret sanctum

The entrance doesn’t look like a portal, but a set of large redwood doors with Art Nouveau-type sweeping carvings and ornate golden handles with a relatively small keyhole. Leshui and Dominhall Amanita spent a significant amount of time here.

Main Chamber

Inside, it is Castle Iverfort as designed by Dominhall. All his original concepts are faithfully rendered in an otherworldly way. Dominhall spent years creating this piece of the realm bit by bit. On the walls are murals made from mosaic tiles; so many that it’s difficult to determine what they mean. Every surface is covered. Running beneath the floor is a modified version of the "nucleus", the communication device in each cell. It allows someone from the central node to communicate with anyone inside the Acropolis.

Mosaic Murals:
The tiles are petrified fungal matter. They vary in color and texture, ranging from sickly shades of green and purple to mottled hues of brown and black. Some tiles exhibit faint bioluminescent patterns, pulsating softly with an otherworldly glow that casts eerie shadows across the mosaic's glittering surface. As visitors gaze upon the mosaic, they cannot help but feel a sense of unease. The tiles themselves exude an aura of malevolence, an anathema to the ever-changing nature of the Domain. This place is still, and if it’s decaying, it’s so slow as to be imperceivable. This stillness, this lack of life and movement feels wrong here.

Chelu-ka (a town by the side of large lake dominated by a tree-like tower with concentric rings, as well as the symbols of Kraa'thom and Chelor

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Agarica

A life cycle of grey caps depicted using supporting columns. It shows the evolution from Myceliophytes / Sporelings to Somniophytes / Grey Caps, Latrophytes / Grey Soldiers, and Ecclesiaphytes / Grey Apostles, with a focus on how they use Gutpunch to collect psychic energy and transmit it to a sink of such energy in the Domain for unknown purposes.

On the ceiling, in paint: A half-elven family; a pale male elf and a dark skinned curly-haired human woman holding two children (the Amanitas) A history of the Amanita family stretches across the ceiling like the Sistine Chapel.

The painting depicts a scene of ethereal beauty, capturing the momentous events of a bygone era amidst the tumultuous chaos of the Spellplague. In the background, the fabric of reality is rent asunder, planes colliding and merging in a kaleidoscope of colors and energies. In this one tiny moment in time where the cosmere is fragments and reality is broken, Ylmyo-Aldon has a chance to reemerge. Floating into the foreground, a cloud of spores wafts through these currents of power, decreasing in number until finally, only one remains.

Beside it stands a lone figure, an androgynous mortal with a gaze both curious and repulsed, features illuminated by the soft glow of this miniscule spore that clearly holds great power.

Radiating from the figure’s form, a subtle aura of power and transformation permeates the air. Their lineage, once ordinary, now bears the indelible mark of Ylmyo-Aldon's influence. The family tree depicts a familial history of Spores druids, necromancers, and even mycologists, but also a great deal of dreamers with powerful creative pursuits.

In the distance, the Amanita siblings stand, each with a mote of Ylymo-Aldon lying dormant in their minds, their expressions a mixture of awe and reverence as they witness the unfolding of fate. They do not understand the implications of this moment, the pivotal role their long-lost relative will play in the grand tapestry of events to come.

The dissemination of spores during the Spellplague, all but one of which were destroyed in the chaos. One interacted with the mind of this first Amanita, creating a line of humanoids on the material plane whose minds could hold Ylmyo-Aldon.

Mural Room

In another room, a large mirror hangs covering an entire wall directly opposite a painted mural of the wedding of Baron Iverfort and Altunka. The mirror perfectly reflects the painting, except that at a point directly beneath the couple's joined hands, a small keyhole is visible. This keyhole is not detectable on the physical mural.

The Pit

In another room, a long hall leads to an area blocked off by a gate and portcullis. Beyond, a large window of transparent material shows a constantly shimmering and moving array of lights. Directly in front of this is a 30' diameter pit nearly 500 feet deep. No light extends into the pit.