Kyūden Gotei

Kyūden Gotei, the Palace of the Mantis, or Shiro Gotei, Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, p. 48 was a Mantis port. Tempests and Tides, by Annie VanderMeer Mitsoda It was one of the two parts in which Gotei City was divided, separated from the other part, Gotei Harbor, by the Path of Thunder. Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, p. 84
== Foundation ==
Kyūden Gotei and its associated city were founded in the late first century, no more than a village and a simple defensive keep that the fledgling Mantis Clan, proclaimed to be "Kyūden Mantis." The name was changed to "Gotei" at some point in the fifth century or sixth century, by which time the modest keep had already grown into a grand, sprawling palace. Imperial cartographers referred to the castle as "Shiro Gotei." 
== Appearance ==
Kyūden Gotei was a grandiose, even garish, display of vast wealth and foreign influence. It was built primarily from stone quarried on Gotei Island, on which it stands. Much of this stone exhibited strange dark-green and rusty-red colors; the wooden sections likewise were made from the island's exotic
tropical trees; the castle roofs were sheathed in copper. Inside, the castle was even more spectacular having wide corridors, tall doors, and open windows to encourage airflow and weaken the damp tropical heat of the islands. Throughout, it was decorated with semiprecious and precious stones, gold and silver plating, displays of flowering tropical plants, and cages with strange birds and brightly colored lizards. Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, p. 47
== The Lair of the Great Wind ==
Caves and tunnels caused by ancient volcanic activity riddled the ground beneath the castle, and they had been expanded and developed by the Mantis Clan. Access
to these passages was restricted to Mantis Clan leadership and the elite unit known as the Storm Legion. These tunnels provided access to Heaven's Bank Hold, a massive vault deep underground where the Mantis kept their greatest and most notorious treasures. 
Category:Gotei City (TCG)