Old Palace (Letheras)

The Old Palace in Letheras was the residence of King Ezgara Diskanar and meant to be replaced by the Eternal Domicile. By the start of Midnight Tides, the king's throne had already been moved to the new structure, but the Royal Household and their aides still lived and worked in the older building.Midnight Tides, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.69/82
The palace sat on a sunken hill with its back one hundred paces from the Lether River. Between the palace and the river was a desolate area occupied by the leaning Azath Tower and several abandoned Jaghut structures.Midnight Tides, Chapter 4, US SFBC p.152
The Grand Hall was the most public area of the palace while Chancellor Triban Gnol, his followers, messengers, and other retainers might be found walking the central hall of the palace's inner chambers.Midnight Tides, Chapter 6, US SFBC p.189-190 First Eunuch Nifadas and Preda Unnutal Hebaz maintained offices in the inner chambers, and this was also where Ceda Kuru Qan kept his study, divination chamber, and Cedance.
The king's concubines and the queen's consorts were housed in a private, isolated quarter of the palace. Of these men and women, only the First Concubine and First Consort were allowed contact with anyone other than the royal personages.Midnight Tides, Chapter 4, US SFBC p.140-141
==In Midnight Tides==
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==In Reaper's Gale==
The arrival of the Seventh Closure saw the Letherii court relocated to the Eternal Domicile. When First Consort Turudal Brizad disappeared, it was rumoured among the court servants that he haunted the lesser travelled corridors and subterranean mysteries of the Old Palace.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 3, US HC p.78 In fact, the Errant spent time visiting the Cedant attempting to understand the pattern unfolding around him.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 3, US HC p.81-82
Before she left with the Third Edur Imperial Fleet, Feather Witch commandeered several unused storage rooms in the palace's catacombs in which to escape her bondage. She stocked her rooms with bedding, spare clothes, fresh water, wine, beer, dried fish, and beef, along with fired clay jugs containing preserved fruits. She also stockpiled over a hundred scrolls she had stolen from the Imperial Library containing the histories of Lether and its conquered peoples. In other rooms she found shelves bearing thousands of mouldering books, many written in arcane Letherii script or in unfamiliar languages.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 7, US HC p.172
Hannan Mosag found a subterranean tunnel leading from the Old Palace almost to the junction of the Main Canal and Creeper Canal. At its end he established a temple sanctified to Kurald Emurlahn. From there he sent Bruthen Trana in search of Brys Beddict.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 15, US HC p.439-442
Within the palace's baths was a six hundred-year-old painted panel depicting an ugly couple sharing a jug by the side of a lake that distinctly reminded Ormly of Ursto Hoobutt and Pinosel.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.787-788
==Notes and references==
Category:Buildings
Category:Letheras