Belrose Palace

Belrose Palace (also known as the Palace of Shadow) is a massive royal estate that serves as one of the main locations in Wilted Memory. It once was home to the House of Belrose, the royal family who ruled Briarthorne until its inevitable fall, and eventually the home of Demonica once she stole the position as Queen. Its front doors eventually became known to the modern-day folk as the famed Thousand-Year Door itself.
Much of its rooms have a similar design scheme to the canon Palace of Shadow, albeit with more furnishings such as paintings, tapestries, artifacts, statues, and more. However, unlike the linear structure of its canon counterpart, the palace has a more realistic layout akin to real-life royal estates and living spaces for its residents. 
==Appearance==
Belrose Palace is often described to be quite vast and towering, taking up one quarter of Greater Briarthorne. Its towers were even visible from faraway reaches of the kingdom. However, it has a very elegant and ornate design, both on the exterior and its ornate and gilded interiors. Most of the rooms feature gilded brass designs and stained-glass windows of florals commonly found throughout the kingdom, though most of them depict roses as they are the symbol of the House of Belrose. 
==Official description==
A symbol of Briarthorne and the House of Belrose, Belrose Palace is a massive and towering estate, taking up a quarter of the kingdom’s inner reaches. Its exterior walls are primarily made out of Lilacstone, a lavender stone highly sought after for its extraordinarily superb strength and beauty. After the kingdom sank underground, for anomalous circumstances the palace is relatively the most well-preserved out of all of what is left of the structures.
The stone pillars and walls of the palace are lush with so many different climbing flowers, and the gardens, although left without sunlight for a millennium, still retain the ever-eternal enchanted roses the Belrose family had planted long ago.
Inside the palace is rich with patterns of climbing ivies and blossoms on the woven carpets, fine brass gildings and ancient frescoes all over the walls, and among the many thousand windows, stained glass depictions of these very flowers the Bloomsprites venerated as much as the celestials once above them, along with these said entities. Sometimes one may come across rows of statues acting as though they guard the room they stand in, or perhaps painted vases and relics that were once the works of a proud Bloomsprite artisan.
Whenever one may sneak past the massive decorated doors the entrance has to offer, they might feel not only a sense of dread from what was left of the fearsome demoness’s presence, but perhaps melancholy… as this palace was once home to a regal yet well-loved family… who vowed to protect the very kingdom that fell…
==History==
For countless generations, the palace served as the absolute epitome of Briarthornian architecture and the main estate of Briarthorne’s royalty. Some believed that it was built and decorated in the vision of its first queen, Queen Elisabeth Belrose, whose image has been depicted in many artworks around the estate. It has overseen so many balls and opulent royal events over the course of the kingdom’s history.
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==Floor plan==
===B1F===
*Belrose Family Crypts (includes Demonica’s Resting Place)
Tattle: “So this must be the deepest area in Belrose Palace… Honestly this place gives me the creeps the longer I stand here. Not only are so many generations of Bloomsprite royalty interred here, but Queen Demonica herself was as well. To think that this was where we had this intense fight with her… and where we are when all the magic came back to life and this place was brought back to the surface. I think we should get back to where we came from.”
*Vault
===1F===
*Foyer
*Main Hall (includes the grand staircase)
*Antechamber
*Throne Room
Tattle: “Ah, the throne room itself. Where all the many queens of Briarthorne sat and held audiences in. To think that Demonica would be sitting upon that throne with her mysterious gaze over anyone who entered. Why do I feel a tinge of melancholy every time I stare at that throne? Perhaps it’s because of Flor…”
*Kitchen
*Ballroom (later used as Gloomtail’s room)
*Amaranth Dining Hall
*Atrium
*Crystal Star Shrine
*Library (spans to 3F)
*Rose Gardens
*Front Garden (before the famous door)
*Greenhouse
===2F===
*Library (spans to 3F)
*Doll Room
*Living spaces/bedchambers for the Royal Family and guests
*Music Room
*Cerulean Dining Hall
*Mauve Dining Hall
*Poppy Drawing Room
*Bellflower Drawing Room
*Poets' Corner
*Artists' Corner
*Alchemists' Corner
===3F===
*Library (spans to 1F)
===4F<===
*Various lookout towers
*Observatory/Astronomers' Corner (later used as the Riddle Tower)
==Enemies encountered==
*Bloom Dollie
*Dark Dragonette
*Dark Guard
*Dark Licornette
*Guardian Statue
Category:Locations
Category:Wilted Memory
Category:Castles