Hey, if anyone is up for the climb, the view from the Astronomy Tower is fantastic! You can see everything from up here... whatever this country is, it's very beautiful
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[Peach doesn't like the tower. She scouted it out and made herself look down, several times, then made some excuse and sat down for a while.] It's a nice enough view.
These black robes make me feel like I'm pretending to be a mage. I like the scarf, though. Mine's red and gold. [Tortallan page colors.]
It looks like a university. Those are classrooms, maybe for mages. The place is odd enough for them.
That's one function, anyway. Since it's a palace, it probably has several. No one I've spoken to has found anything like a court's room, but this place is such a rat's warren that I'm not surprised.
Sure, there ought to be shops and barracks for the soldiers too, and [pentaps] space for travelers. And the people, when it's too dangerous to be out in the open.
You know, it makes a lot more sense to look at it that way.
It's not near a city and there are hardly any outbuildings, so I suppose it would need those. Strange to put a palace so far from civilization. It seems large for a summer retreat.
But there aren't fields or any livestock that I can see. I guess something could be beyond the hills, but it'd be an awful lot of work to get food and such through them.
A different palace, for a different season. If the one in the capital is uncomfortable or unliveable in the summer or flooding season, the court might move.
[The nobility in Corus doesn't do that, at least not in her time, but Carthak's emperors might, or some other nation she's heard of. And the Yamani emperor has a train that's often on the move.]
These black robes make me feel like I'm pretending to be a mage. I like the scarf, though. Mine's red and gold. [Tortallan page colors.]
It looks like a university. Those are classrooms, maybe for mages. The place is odd enough for them.
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Oh, a university? I guess that would make sense... I never would have expected one to be so huge, though.
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Though the moving staircases make it a little tricky to go in a straight line while exploring. Rat's warren is a good word for it.
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A very airy rat's warren. I don't think it was all built at once to a set plan. Maybe it's been added to over the years.
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You know, it makes a lot more sense to look at it that way.
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[and the pinging breaks off there.]
What do you mean by a summer retreat?
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[The nobility in Corus doesn't do that, at least not in her time, but Carthak's emperors might, or some other nation she's heard of. And the Yamani emperor has a train that's often on the move.]
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