New Palace

Rather than attempting to rebuild the Old Palace in Black Coral after the Siege of Coral, the Tiste Andii had a New Palace built as their seat of power. It was also known as the New Andiian Palace.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 2, US TPB p.49
Unmoving for nearly a year atop Dragon Tower, Silanah was thought to be merely an ornamentation crafted by a master artisan by many in the city's human population. 
The palace housed around fifteen Tiste Andii and humans, including Anomander Rake and Endest Silann, the palace's castellan, amidst its extensive and empty echoing corridors and unlocked unguarded doors. The main floor was occupied by the offices of the castellan's modest collection of scribes and sundry bureaucrats. Kitchen staff, clothes-scrubbers and wringers, hearth-keepers and taper-lighters, all lived and worked in the lower levels. Rake's rooms were in the virtually unoccupied upper level.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.76 There was so little for the human servants to do that they sometimes cleaned the building to stave off boredom.
It was approached by a flagstone ramp leading to an unguarded, arched double-doorway. Inside, a narrow buttressed hallway led to a spacious domed chamber with a floor of polished blackwood inset with the twenty-eight spiralling terondai of Mother Dark, all in black silver. Commissioned by Rake, the terondai represented "the Invisible Sun and its whirling, wild rays of onyx flame." The dome's interior above was the floor's mirror image.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.75-76
A curling, bone-white, alabaster staircase led upstairs to Rake's chambers, which included an elongated room whose massive crystal window overlooked the Nightwater of Coral Bay.
==Temple of Darkness==
Within the palace was the Temple of Darkness tended by the High Priestess, her half-dozen priestesses (referred to as Second Sister, Third Sister, etc.), an unknown number of priests, and their acolytes.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.646-647Toll the Hounds, Chapter 4, US SFBC p.137 Temple guardians clad in scale armour and ringed leather, wearing helms with grille face-pieces, served as their defence.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.647 Its stone exterior echoed the architecture of Andara and Bluerose, but in a rougher form that recalled rough-hewn wood.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.976 The floor of the temple's domed Grand Vestry was decorated by a mosaic.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.950Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.976 One area of the temple was known as the Unlit Garden.
==In Toll the Hounds==
Endest Silann confronted the Dying God in the Temple of Shadow's Grand Vestry.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24
==Notes and references==
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