The 'Great Diamond' is what the NightWing tribe called the shape formed
by the tribe's most important buildings. It existed during the era of Darkstalker and was located within the lost city
of night.

## Description

The NightWing palace|palace and NightWing school|school were placed to
the north, not far from each other, and the museum and NightWing
library|library finished the shape toward the south. The palace was
noted to be the largest of the four buildings. These four buildings
formed a diamond-shaped plaza, hence its name. There was a temporary
stage set up in the middle of the plaza for concerts.

During the Glass Jubilee and other events, the entire plaza looked like
it was swarming with fireflies due to the hundreds of lanterns. There
were food tents which sold roasting meat, sizzling onions, fried
bananas, and goats on sticks. An intricate lacework of wires traced over
the whole diamond, hung with paper lanterns painted bright colors by the
kingdom's dragonets. Near the central fire, there were Games|game
pavilions where NightWings can play games such as scales-and-squares and
scroll towers.

In modern Pyrrhia, it is full of stones, overgrown weeds, and toppled
columns. There are statues missing heads, talons, tails, or all three,
and once-elegant buildings whose roofs caved in.

## Notable features

### Museum

The museum was one of the four sides of the Great Diamond. It was one of
the most important buildings in the lost city of night. Darkstalker
described the museum to have had the most beautiful art in Pyrrhia
during his time.

### NightWing library

The NightWing library takes up one of the four sides of the Great
Diamond. It was noted by Clearsight to have no access to the three moons
and Clearsight had a study room of her own within the library, inhabited
with five tables, partially blank scrolls, and a blue ink puddle. It had
at least one doorway.

In modern Pyrrhia, the vast NightWing library has tall columns, built to
support the roof, across the front that are carved to look like scrolls.
One of the columns has cracks all around the base and another is broken
in half and toppled over, but for such an old building, it is more
intact than most of the surrounding buildings. The doorway yawns
emptily, lacking a door. More writing is carved into the intel,
including passages about knowledge, flames, and darkness. It is shadowy,
but a glow of firelight flickers from one of the rooms off of the
central hall. It is likely one of the biggest libraries within Pyrrhia,
and its walls are lined with slots for scrolls from floor to ceiling.
The ceiling is far overhead, and a vast wooden table fills the center of
the room, so large that it would have been impossible to fit through the
doorways. Most of the slots for scrolls are empty, and there are holders
for torches around the space. It includes a classification system,
archives, collections within each room, and giant index scrolls that
used to contain the entire catalogue of books within the library.

### NightWing palace

The palace was built into and wrapped around Borderland Mountain with
many towers. The halls were made of black marble and had mirrors
embedded in the walls every three steps. The heart of the palace was a
courtyard dotted with black marble dragons with diamond eyes. The palace
has many floors and rooms.

### NightWing school

The school was designed to look very similar to the NightWing palace,
with lots of gray and black marble terraces, hanging gardens, and long
glittering waterfalls. It has three entrances, and the quietest and
least crowded was located on a side facing away from the NightWing
palace. Its floors were made of marble tiles.

It contained a library, as well as a vast hexagonal courtyard that was
lined with classrooms on all six sides. The courtyard was described as
an obstacle course for flying practice, full of trees, twisting vines,
loops, mazes, and tricks. The courtyard contains vines with heart-shaped
leaves, pine trees, outdoor tables, and puddles.

## History

### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

#### Talons of Power

Darkstalker introduced Moonwatcher to the Great Diamond as they arrived
in the lost city of night.

#### Darkness of Dragons

After learning of Snowfall's declaration to go to war with the
NightWings, Darkstalker commanded Fierceteeth to gather all the
NightWings that could fight at the Great Diamond.

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### Legends

#### Darkstalker

The Great Diamond was first mentioned by Clearsight who noted the
different buildings on all four sides while traveling to the NightWing
school.

Later, the Great Diamond served as the location for Vigilance's Glass
Jubilee and was populated by a majority of the NightWing tribe.
Clearsight and Listener attended the festival together where they met up
with Darkstalker, Fathom, Whiteout, and Lionfish in one of the game
pavilions.

Darkstalker and Arctic, who had been enchanted to follow Darkstalker's
every command, landed on a stage in the Great Diamond. It was there that
Darkstalker ordered Arctic to disembowel himself in front of a large
crowd of NightWings.