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Sep. 7th, 2010 04:05 pm
earthen_hope: (Quiet moments)
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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.

It's a very strange castle, though. I don't know if I've ever seen one that's all sprawled out like this, although there's certainly enough room to fit a lot of people if there's need. I can't see any farms or houses around either, just the Quidditch field. [pentaps] For that matter, I haven't found an armory yet, but this place is so huge I'm sure it'd be easy to miss. Most of the rooms are full of desks, like a scholar's study. I can't imagine why there need to be so many. Paladin, Reed, Spear, have you seen it yet?

Oh yeah, everyone should be careful if you pass a picture of a knight. I've had this Sir Cadogan guy following me through just about every painting I've passed offering to escort my fair maidenly self on my noble quest or something.

Has anyone been a Hufflepuff yet? I like the badger and the yellow--it's very cheery!

Date: 2010-09-08 01:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] feathered-earth.livejournal.com
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.

Date: 2010-09-08 01:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] of-mindelan.livejournal.com
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.

Date: 2010-09-08 02:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] feathered-earth.livejournal.com
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.

[and the pinging breaks off there.]

What do you mean by a summer retreat?

Date: 2010-09-08 02:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] of-mindelan.livejournal.com
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.]

Date: 2010-09-09 04:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] feathered-earth.livejournal.com
Gosh, that sounds pretty extravagant. [pentaps.] But everyone else would have to put up with the heat and the floods, right?

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