Astilla Garden

**The Imperial Western Astilla Garden** (Russian: Императорский западный сад Астилла tr. *Imperatorskiy zapadnyy sad Astilla*; French: *Le jardin impérial d'Astilla occidental*), simply known as the **Astilla Garden** or the **Western Garden**, is located in the Grand Imperial Vikla Palace. It is completed on 1052 IK before being destroyed with the entire imperial capital on 2318 IK. It is later reconstructed to how it originally is.

## Description

The Astilla Garden is described to be the garden that flanked the western side of the Grand Imperial Vikla Palace, the very heart of the Eurasian Empire's might and power. It is mainly composed of greenery, majority of them are orchards of trees, opposite to the flowers in the Alexia Garden at the other side of the palace. It is highly recognized by the world to feature countless fountains, pools, falls and depicts a series of breathtaking sculptures and statues. The garden alone is said to have seventy-two fountains, fifty cascades of waterfalls, and twenty giant pools.

The garden is very well viewed from the Occidental Building's Hall of Archives and Hall of Artifacts that are composed of the Hall of Juno, Hall of Minerva and Hall of Diana; the Western Wing of the Central Building that is composed of the Imperial Court Opera, and the quarters of the Master of the Household, Imperial Private Secretary, and Knights of the Holy Order except for the Knight of St. Peter's; and the cornerstone of the western side of the South Wing that is composed of the largest ballroom out of the fifteen others in the palace known as the Grand Alexandrovich Ballroom.

By area, the Astilla Garden is considerably larger than the Alexia Garden. To add, within the garden grounds, both the Aelius Palace and Lucilla Palace could be found as the two were separated by an area in the garden known as the Imperial Gardens, where the Grand Cascade, a wide straight canal that runs to the horizon with fountains and cascades each filling a basin at intervals, could be found. Though both palaces are located in the garden grounds, the Aelius Palace was on the southern side to have a good view of the Adriatic Sea, while the Lucilla Palace was on the northern side.

After the destruction of the Imperial Capital of Vikla, the Astilla Garden is mentioned to be reconstructed to how it originally is.

## History

During the reign of Emperor Ivan II of the Eurasian Empire, the Russian weather doesn't favor him that he had ordered the construction of the Grand Imperial Vikla Palace; but he died before the completion that his successors continued it for the next eighty years. However, the initial plan doesn't involve the creation of the gardens that will flank the imperial language. It was Emperor Pavel's idea for the gardens to flank the palace on 1032 for the birth of his daughter and heiress, the then-Empress Yekaterina the Virgin, who was also the first one to reside in the palace at its completion.

By 1561, Emperor Pavel II, seeing the Grand Imperial Vikla Palace was too grand and too large to served as residence, and the lacking security, ordered the construction of a much smaller palace within the grounds of the Astilla Garden, the Aelius Palace. And due to his falling out relationship with his wife, ordered a separate residence for the empress, which was the Lucilla Palace, situated a few kilometers away within the Astilla Garden, too; and be separated by the incorporated Grand Cascade at the Imperial Gardens between the two palaces.

On year 2318 IK, Emperor Ionafan was strolling the Grand Cascade with his wife, all the while Lord Akito Ryu and the others were talking about the latest intel they have, deciding whether to trouble Ionafan about such things. Later that evening, Lord Ryu found Ionafan dashing to the Grand Cascade during a fit of worsening hallucination both caused by paranoia and after effects of a stronger Kaio.

## Appearances

* *Reload*
* *The Queen's Sword*
* *Final Goodbye*

## Trivia

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