The 'Deep Palace' is the underwater palace of the royal SeaWing family
and other important SeaWings. It was constructed around the Royal
Hatchery and is supposedly more magnificent than the Summer Palace.

Queen Coral is there year-round, with the exception of when there is
business requiring her at the Summer Palace, such as a visit from
Blister. It is also where the Royal Hatchery is, along with the Orca's
statue|enchanted statue of Orca, until Coral destroyed it after Tsunami
discovered that it had been Animus magic|animus-touched to kill off all
the female heirs to the throne. Now, all of the SeaWings reside in the
Deep Palace, as the Summer Palace was destroyed by the SkyWings and
MudWings.

## Description

The Deep Palace is well hidden. A vast expanse of white-and-green coral
reef spreads across the sides and floor of an underwater canyon, curling
into caves and towers and gardens full of glowing colors. In the center
of the canyon, the coral spirals up into an enormous palace. It contains
windows and doors, as well as a wide front entrance composed of a coral
cavern, sparkling with emeralds and sapphires. A statue of Queen Coral
looms in the center, her talons outstretched benevolently. A outcropping
of coral is hooked near the front door. It was where Queen Coral hung
the bodies of SeaWings she killed for failing her. Past the front
entrance, a tunnel curves down and around in a spiral, with the water
becoming warmer as dragons descend. Warm jets of water bubble up through
the coral on the floor, and at the end of the tunnel, a stone door is
present — the entrance to the Royal Hatchery.

Within the main hall, the floor is composed of rough coral, and is
surrounded by outcroppings of more coral. The palace is further composed
of winding tunnels, cavernous rooms, emerald-studded coral, and
pearl-laced curtains of golden sea grass. There is also a back entrance
into the palace, leading into a room that seems to be a workshop
containing sea grass weavings and marble carvings.

The palace's atmosphere is cool and dark, and it is surrounded by
underwater canyons.

## Notable features

### Bubble Jet Garden

The bubble jet garden sits beyond one of the gardens by the palace.
There are a few vents in the ocean floor that send jets of bubbles
upwards, which dragonets like Auklet enjoy playing with.

### Fathom and Pearl's bungalow

Fathom and Pearl's bungalow contained a sleeping couch and a
series of mirrors that allowed a dragon to view themselves from all
angles. On one far wall, all of Pearl's jewels were displayed on a tall
tree of dark brown mahogany with many branches. The bungalow led into a
garden bordered by curtains of white jasmine pearls.

### Royal Hatchery

The Royal Hatchery is located at the bottom of a tunnel leading from the
Deep Palace's front entrance. It is a pristine hatching place designed
for royal dragonets, and eating within the hatchery is strictly
forbidden, as it can attract sharks. The cave is covered by a stone
door, and inside the hatchery, warm jets bubble along every smooth wall,
heating the room. They were described to flow through tiny holes in the
coral, surrounding the eggs in a bath of heat and small bubbles. It is
shaped like the inside of a large, pale egg, with smooth, polished
floors, and Orca's Statue resided in the center until the events of The Lost Heir. Nests made of seaweed are tucked into
niches in the floor, with wide pathways stretching in between them. Its
interior is typically hot, still, dark, and quiet. Female and male eggs
are separated on different sides of the hatchery, due to an animus
enchanting it to separate them.

### Unnamed classroom

An underwater classroom appearing in Darkstalker,
this space was used for teaching geography. It contained at least one
window and a pink coral ledge circling the interior of the room. The
space was largely occupied by a large terrain model of the Kingdom of
the Sea.

## History

### The Dragonet Prophecy

#### The Lost Heir

Coral went to the Royal Hatchery along with Tsunami, Anemone, and Moray,
in fear of her eggs being smashed. She saw the broken egg shells and
then disemboweled Tortoise. Later, when Auklet's egg started to hatch,
Tsunami took it back to the Royal Hatchery and discovered that Orca's
Statue had been killing off the eggs.

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### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

#### Talons of Power

When Turtle was searching for Anemone, he came across his mother and his
sister, Auklet, in the Bubble Jet Garden next to the Deep Palace.

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### Legends

#### Darkstalker

Fathom was summoned to the throne room by Queen Pearl, who tasked him
with educating Darkstalker about animus magic, or rather how harmful it
can be.

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### Field Guides

#### A Guide to the Dragon World

The Deep Palace was mentioned in Coral's scroll about the War of
SandWing Succession. The palace was also mentioned as being a setting
from Coral's scrolls, literature#Named scrolls|When We Swam the Ocean
Deep and The Island at the Beginning of Time. It was later mentioned by
Anemone in her letter to Tamarin.