Eagle Palace

The Eagle Palace, known also occasionally as the Great Palace or the White Palace, is the largest and most important palace in the Empire of Sevicia and is the homestead of the ruler of Sevicia. Located in the Sunset Cliffs district of the capital city of Morosea (on the eastern seaboard), the Eagle Palace has served as the primary home and hall of the Imperator of Sevicia, the Empire's ruling monarch, for more than 600 years.
== History ==
The Eagle Palace was first designed under the reign of Amates Prabitulia, the second ruler in Sevician history. Construction began in the year 49 A.S and was completed three years later, upon which time Amates and his wife moved into the palace permanently. Since then it has served as the primary residence of each of Sevicia's consecutive rulers, for more than six centuries with little interruption.
The palace itself has been redesigned a number of times over the years, including most notably under the reign of Maria Mios in the fourth and fifth centuries, who extended the western wing of the palace to include a new garden area, and again during renovations in the late sixth century. A number of plays and theatrical performances have been hosted in its many great halls, and it stands as one of the most important buildings in all of Sevicia. The only Sevician Imperator to not have claimed the palace was Kaeso Magna, known more commonly as Kaeso Ironeye, who ruled for just 39 days in the year 453 as part of the Year of Five.
== Layout ==
One of the largest buildings in both the capital and the wider Empire, the Eagle Palace is a monument of architecture unlike no other. Its exterior is fashioned out of polished limestone and white marble, which stands it in stark contrast to the nearby House of Nyx, the meeting place of Sevicia's governing Senate, whose exterior is of a bright red brick. Unlike the House of Nyx, the palace is located on flatter ground, with no great steps and a set of large double doors behind a foyer of marble columns that is guarded around the clock.
The inside is host to more than a hundred individual rooms, including 32 bedrooms, twelve halls, eight kitchens, six banquet rooms, six private meeting chambers, two fencing rooms, an observatory, both an indoor and an outdoor garden, an inner courtyard complete with fish ponds and water fountains, several guest dormitories and servants' quarters, and a number of other rooms of various sizes and roles. Its vast size makes it the largest single-standing building in the Empire of Sevicia, although not the tallest, at less than 100 metres in height.
The main throne room is located at the back of the palace, with the Red Throne of Sevicia atop fourteen steps and set in front of a great glass pane overlooking the Sunset Cliffs and the Anaean Sea beyond. One of the palace's most notable features is its great bells, one each on the eastern and western side of the palace, which ring out each day when the sun is at its highest point and again when night falls.
== See also ==
Empire of Sevicia
Morosea
Category:Landmarks and Buildings