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The Astronomer's Chamber

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	===The Astronomer's Chamber===		===The Astronomer's Chamber===
	A round room adjacent to the chapel.		A round room adjacent to the chapel. "Everyone called it the lunar because its stained glass windows used only shades of blue, clear, or frosted glass, and the constellations were picked out in gemstones on the marble floor. [...] it was in the middle of the Old Court, which had been designated as the Chancellor’s during Maraesa’s reign, and few were willing to enter a place devoted to mere administra- tors to use it. It was also beside the chapel, which had an exterior ground floor passage, and that meant he could bypass the interior of Ontine entirely to reach it." Has padded benches and lancet windows.<ref>''[[Dragons' Fealty (Fiction)\|Dragons' Fealty]]'', Chapter 12</ref>

	===Palace Chapel===		===Palace Chapel===

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Started on the kitchen parts.

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	=Interior=		=Interior=
	Ontine is mostly function and guest space. <ref name="rp-II">''[[Rose Point (Fiction) \|Rose Point]]'', Part Two</ref> It has "multiple wings" and "several stories", "filled with gracious suites, parlors, receiving rooms, even offices and barracks." <ref name="gof-10">''[[Girl on Fire (Fiction) \|Girl on Fire]]'', chapter 10</ref> The stone floors of the wide halls are inlaid with patterns, and the high ceilings are coffered and painted in deep blues and gold and white. There are tapestries on the walls, and recesses with statues, and oil paintings, and alcoves with delicate painted furniture with embroidered upholstery. <ref name="rp-II" />		Ontine is mostly function and guest space. <ref name="rp-II">''[[Rose Point (Fiction) \|Rose Point]]'', Part Two</ref> It has "multiple wings" and "several stories", "filled with gracious suites, parlors, receiving rooms, even offices and barracks." <ref name="gof-10">''[[Girl on Fire (Fiction) \|Girl on Fire]]'', chapter 10</ref> The stone floors of the wide halls are inlaid with patterns, and the high ceilings are coffered and painted in deep blues and gold and white. There are tapestries on the walls, and recesses with statues, and oil paintings, and alcoves with delicate painted furniture with embroidered upholstery. <ref name="rp-II" />

			== Ground Floor ==

			=== Kitchens ===
			"Three fires were burning in the same wall, and over them were doors, and along the tables lining the wall were loaves of pale bread rising."<ref name=":0" />

			There's a separate room for the pantry.

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	==Liolesa's Reign==		==Liolesa's Reign==
	* Kitchens		* Kitchens
	** Maraleith <ref>''[[Laisrathera (Fiction)\|Laisrathera]]'' chapter 17</ref>		** Maraleith <ref name=":0">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction)\|Laisrathera]]'' chapter 17</ref>
	* Pages		* Pages
	** Thevenel (needs a family name) <ref name="rp-03">''[[Rose Point (Fiction)\|Rose Point]]'', Part Three</ref>		** Thevenel (needs a family name) <ref name="rp-03">''[[Rose Point (Fiction)\|Rose Point]]'', Part Three</ref>

Jaguar: Added Image

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Added Image

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	[[File:Map-OntineFirstFloor.jpg\|300px\|thumb\|right\|First Floor, Original Draft]]		[[File:Map-OntineFirstFloor.jpg\|300px\|thumb\|right\|First Floor, Original Draft]]
	===Liolesa's Study===		===Liolesa's Study===
			[[File:Floorplan-LiolesasStudy.jpg\|left\|thumb\|150x150px\|Liolesa's Study]]
	It has chairs and a coffee table arranged on the rug before the hearth, and a desk and cabinet of books on the raised and carpeted dais in the corner between two windows. <ref name="rp-II" /> It has multiple windows with a view of the courtyard. <ref name="mp-disengage" />		It has chairs and a coffee table arranged on the rug before the hearth, and a desk and cabinet of books on the raised and carpeted dais in the corner between two windows. <ref name="rp-II" /> It has multiple windows with a view of the courtyard. <ref name="mp-disengage" />

Jaguar at 14:19, 28 July 2022

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	[[File:Map-OntineCapital.png\|~~200px~~\|thumb~~\|right~~\|Early Rough of the palace]]		[[File:Map-OntineCapital.png\|381x381px\|thumb\|Early Rough of the palace]]
	The [[Eldritch]] imperial palace, in the [[Argent \| capital city]]. Pronounced /ohn TEEN/.		The [[Eldritch]] imperial palace, in the [[Argent \| capital city]]. Pronounced /ohn TEEN/.
	=History=		=History=

Jaguar: /* Library */

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Library

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	Tall ceilings with lancet windows, clear-paned. Shelves are dark, fragrant wood with leather-bound tomes, some as old as Settlement. Here and there, narrow wooden tables for setting out larger books. A dais (a short step up to it) under a half-cupola, lined in more lancet windows topped with cinquefoils.		Tall ceilings with lancet windows, clear-paned. Shelves are dark, fragrant wood with leather-bound tomes, some as old as Settlement. Here and there, narrow wooden tables for setting out larger books. A dais (a short step up to it) under a half-cupola, lined in more lancet windows topped with cinquefoils.

	The library is next to the Queen's wing. <ref name="rp-03" /> It was the location of Liolesa's secret Pad for some time, prior to the coup during Reese's first visit.		The library is next to the Queen's wing. <ref name="rp-03" /> It was the location of Liolesa's secret Pad for some time, prior to the coup during Reese's first visit. Afterwards, she moved it "to a location in the Queen's wing," discreetly, and with plans to move it again when next her enemies locate it.<ref>''[[Dragons' Fealty (Fiction)\|Dragons' Fealty]]'', Chapter 14</ref>

	===Blue Room===		===Blue Room===

Jaguar: /* Library */

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Library

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	Tall ceilings with lancet windows, clear-paned. Shelves are dark, fragrant wood with leather-bound tomes, some as old as Settlement. Here and there, narrow wooden tables for setting out larger books. A dais (a short step up to it) under a half-cupola, lined in more lancet windows topped with cinquefoils.		Tall ceilings with lancet windows, clear-paned. Shelves are dark, fragrant wood with leather-bound tomes, some as old as Settlement. Here and there, narrow wooden tables for setting out larger books. A dais (a short step up to it) under a half-cupola, lined in more lancet windows topped with cinquefoils.

	The library is next to the Queen's wing. <ref name="rp-03" />		The library is next to the Queen's wing. <ref name="rp-03" /> It was the location of Liolesa's secret Pad for some time, prior to the coup during Reese's first visit.

	===Blue Room===		===Blue Room===

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	=Exterior and Grounds=		=Exterior and Grounds=
	~~[[File:Map-OntineFirstFloor.jpg\|300px\|thumb\|right\|First Floor, Original Draft]]~~

	===Grounds===		===Grounds===
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	==First Floor==		==First Floor==
			[[File:Map-OntineFirstFloor.jpg\|300px\|thumb\|right\|First Floor, Original Draft]]
	===Liolesa's Study===		===Liolesa's Study===
	It has chairs and a coffee table arranged on the rug before the hearth, and a desk and cabinet of books on the raised and carpeted dais in the corner between two windows. <ref name="rp-II" /> It has multiple windows with a view of the courtyard. <ref name="mp-disengage" />		It has chairs and a coffee table arranged on the rug before the hearth, and a desk and cabinet of books on the raised and carpeted dais in the corner between two windows. <ref name="rp-II" /> It has multiple windows with a view of the courtyard. <ref name="mp-disengage" />

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	Ontine's Pad exits inside the courtyard. It's a single-person model and it is not located inside a building, so the guards have flawless sightlines. <ref name="hw-11">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) \|Healer's Wedding]]'', chapter 11</ref>		Ontine's Pad exits inside the courtyard. It's a single-person model and it is not located inside a building, so the guards have flawless sightlines. <ref name="hw-11">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) \|Healer's Wedding]]'', chapter 11</ref>

	There is now a statue of Oviin in the courtyard, a gift from the Chatcaavan Empire to the Eldritch Empire (a request from Jahir to Lisinthir in.~~.. which book?~~ Farmer's Crown?).		There is now a statue of Oviin in the courtyard, a gift from the Chatcaavan Empire to the Eldritch Empire (a request from Jahir to Lisinthir in ''Farmer's Crown'').<ref name="fc-23">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) \|Farmer's Crown]]'', chapter 23</ref>

	<blockquote>The artist had sculpted a castrate, rising from his knees with one hand lifted and wings partially spread, as if he had become aware that he could reach the sky with a spring, and that this spring was in him, and allowed. The solemn joy on his face as he stared upward made her throat close around the tears this shape could not shed. The castrate held a sheaf of lilies in the crook of one arm, like the ones he had arranged in her suite when she had been unaware of him. The ground beneath him was obviously modeled after the palace’s stone floors, but as they’d looked after the coup, scattered with debris. At the base of the statue, in a ring around it, was one inscription in the four languages of alliance: Chatcaavan, Eldren, Universal, and Faulfenzair. And it read: ''Born to Kneel, They Rose.''<ref name="df-01">''[[Dragons' Fealty (Fiction) \|Dragons' Fealty]]'', chapter 1</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>The artist had sculpted a castrate, rising from his knees with one hand lifted and wings partially spread, as if he had become aware that he could reach the sky with a spring, and that this spring was in him, and allowed. The solemn joy on his face as he stared upward made her throat close around the tears this shape could not shed. The castrate held a sheaf of lilies in the crook of one arm, like the ones he had arranged in her suite when she had been unaware of him. The ground beneath him was obviously modeled after the palace’s stone floors, but as they’d looked after the coup, scattered with debris. At the base of the statue, in a ring around it, was one inscription in the four languages of alliance: Chatcaavan, Eldren, Universal, and Faulfenzair. And it read: ''Born to Kneel, They Rose.''<ref name="df-01">''[[Dragons' Fealty (Fiction) \|Dragons' Fealty]]'', chapter 1</ref></blockquote>
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	===Gifting Party Room===		===Gifting Party Room===
	The room where Sediryl's investiture gifting party was held is on the top floor of Ontine. It has tall windows with a view toward the sea cliffs. <ref name="fc-23"~~>''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) \|Farmer's Crown]]'', chapter 23<~~/~~ref~~>		The room where Sediryl's investiture gifting party was held is on the top floor of Ontine. It has tall windows with a view toward the sea cliffs. <ref name="fc-23" />

	It may be the same room where Liolesa's first pre-Investiture conference with Lisinthir and the Chatcaava took place, because it was in a fourth-floor room in the sea-facing wing overlooking the cliffs. It had a collection of chairs and padded stools around a coffee table, in delicately carved dark wood with brocade upholstery; powder blue and gilt-and-cream floral patterned wallpaper and matching rug; and many long windows. <ref name="hw-11" />		It may be the same room where Liolesa's first pre-Investiture conference with Lisinthir and the Chatcaava took place, because it was in a fourth-floor room in the sea-facing wing overlooking the cliffs. It had a collection of chairs and padded stools around a coffee table, in delicately carved dark wood with brocade upholstery; powder blue and gilt-and-cream floral patterned wallpaper and matching rug; and many long windows. <ref name="hw-11" />

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Courtyard

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	There is now a statue of Oviin in the courtyard, a gift from the Chatcaavan Empire to the Eldritch Empire (a request from Jahir to Lisinthir in... which book? Farmer's Crown?).		There is now a statue of Oviin in the courtyard, a gift from the Chatcaavan Empire to the Eldritch Empire (a request from Jahir to Lisinthir in... which book? Farmer's Crown?).

	<blockquote>The artist had sculpted a castrate, rising from his knees with one hand lifted and wings partially spread, as if he had become aware that he could reach the sky with a spring, and that this spring was in him, and allowed. The solemn joy on his face as he stared upward made her throat close around the tears this shape could not shed. The castrate held a sheaf of lilies in the crook of one arm, like the ones he had arranged in her suite when she had been unaware of him. The ground beneath him was obviously modeled after the palace’s stone floors, but as they’d looked after the coup, scattered with debris. At the base of the statue, in a ring around it, was one inscription in the four languages of alliance: Chatcaavan, Eldren, Universal, and Faulfenzair. And it read: ''Born to Kneel, They Rose.''~~</blockquote>~~<ref name="df-01">''[[Dragons' Fealty (Fiction) \|Dragons' Fealty]]'', chapter 1</ref>		<blockquote>The artist had sculpted a castrate, rising from his knees with one hand lifted and wings partially spread, as if he had become aware that he could reach the sky with a spring, and that this spring was in him, and allowed. The solemn joy on his face as he stared upward made her throat close around the tears this shape could not shed. The castrate held a sheaf of lilies in the crook of one arm, like the ones he had arranged in her suite when she had been unaware of him. The ground beneath him was obviously modeled after the palace’s stone floors, but as they’d looked after the coup, scattered with debris. At the base of the statue, in a ring around it, was one inscription in the four languages of alliance: Chatcaavan, Eldren, Universal, and Faulfenzair. And it read: ''Born to Kneel, They Rose.''<ref name="df-01">''[[Dragons' Fealty (Fiction) \|Dragons' Fealty]]'', chapter 1</ref></blockquote>

	=Interior=		=Interior=

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Courtyard

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	Ontine's Pad exits inside the courtyard. It's a single-person model and it is not located inside a building, so the guards have flawless sightlines. <ref name="hw-11">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) \|Healer's Wedding]]'', chapter 11</ref>		Ontine's Pad exits inside the courtyard. It's a single-person model and it is not located inside a building, so the guards have flawless sightlines. <ref name="hw-11">''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) \|Healer's Wedding]]'', chapter 11</ref>

			There is now a statue of Oviin in the courtyard, a gift from the Chatcaavan Empire to the Eldritch Empire (a request from Jahir to Lisinthir in... which book? Farmer's Crown?).

			<blockquote>The artist had sculpted a castrate, rising from his knees with one hand lifted and wings partially spread, as if he had become aware that he could reach the sky with a spring, and that this spring was in him, and allowed. The solemn joy on his face as he stared upward made her throat close around the tears this shape could not shed. The castrate held a sheaf of lilies in the crook of one arm, like the ones he had arranged in her suite when she had been unaware of him. The ground beneath him was obviously modeled after the palace’s stone floors, but as they’d looked after the coup, scattered with debris. At the base of the statue, in a ring around it, was one inscription in the four languages of alliance: Chatcaavan, Eldren, Universal, and Faulfenzair. And it read: ''Born to Kneel, They Rose.''</blockquote><ref name="df-01">''[[Dragons' Fealty (Fiction) \|Dragons' Fealty]]'', chapter 1</ref>

	=Interior=		=Interior=