Crownsguard Stockade

The **Crownsguard Stockade** is a prison and a courthouse in Trostenwald, the center place for the Crownsguard's operations in the city.

## **Description**

### **Outside**

The **Crownsguard Stockade** is a tall, single-story, rectangular building made of large stone. Built for function, it is evidently made to be defensible rather than aesthetic beauty. The front of the building has two double doors flanked on each side by banners of the Crownsguards.

### **Inside**

The interior of the building is an open area with two central chairs for guards who are posted to watch the main gates of the front door. Beyond these chairs on the right is the lawmaster's office.

In the entryway, there are marble busts and tapestries that are pulled back over the windows on either side which led into a hallway with the smell of lavender and the sound of soft music played by a resident violinist. This hallway leads to two adjoining bath chambers separated by a low wall that came up to eye length, allowing for conversations but preserving privacy.

Sunlight is beaming in through glass fog windows that obscured any details, these chambers each have two central basins filled with freshly steaming water. These basins are designed with a hinged desk piece that folds over the water so that books, food, and drinks could safely rest while the guest bathes. Guests are also provided with linens, towels, and a pitcher of cucumber water.

#### **Layout**

##### **The Lawmaster's Office**

A simple darkened room with a stone desk in the far end of the room from the door. The room also containing crates filled with pieces of paper, gathered evidence and confiscated weaponry.

##### **Jail**

Bypassing the lawmaster's office is a staircase that leads a heavy locked door, that opens from the other side into a subterranean basement area used for holding prisoners. Consisting of a long hallway, the length of holding area is flanked on both sides by ten iron-barred cells. The bars of each cell being two inches apart, and there is a general smell of mildew, compost, and urine that permeates the area.

##### **Judgement Chamber**

A large chamber with a stark barren stone interior with benches. In the center of the chamber, there are four or five steps leading down into a pit where prisoners are kept during the trial. Above the pit is a desk where the lawmaster sits in overseeing trials and rendering her judgement.

##### **Hillsbrook Parchment and Binding**

This shop is a boutique laid out like a cross, with windows at the ends and a door at the back. The shop contains lots of books on farming technique, as well as books on how to grow and care for different types of vegetation, plants, and various beasts of burden. There are also books on the different seasons on what's best for different types of grain and wheat. There are a couple of books that deal with discussion on the Menagerie Coast, that talk about the Clovis Concord, and a discussion on the political structure that maintains the city states there. The shop is run by a man named Sheenah.

##### **Warm Dew Bathhouse**

This bathhouse serves upper-class clientele, this small bathhouse is seen as a bit pricey, a single bath cost 5sp, and adjoining baths for two hours is charged 8sp. The bathhouse is run by an unnamed young man.

## **References**

1. ↑ See "A Show of Scrutiny" (2x02) from 0:26:57 through 0:27:46.
2. ↑ See "A Show of Scrutiny" (2x02) from 0:26:57 through 0:27:46.
3. ↑ See "Disparate Pieces" (2x04) at 2:48:15.
4. ↑ See "Disparate Pieces" (2x04) at 2:51:02.
5. ↑ See "A Show of Scrutiny" (2x02) at 0:27:43.
6. ↑ See "A Show of Scrutiny" (2x02) from 0:35:59 through 0:38:15.
7. ↑ See "Disparate Pieces" (2x04) at 1:06:40.
8. ↑ See "Curious Beginnings" (2x01) from 1:20:52 through 1:24:00.
9. ↑ See "Disparate Pieces" (2x04) at 2:47:58.

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