I am doing two palaces today because Zayjudvis is so unimportant I can lump it in with El Ahir. Zayjudvis is the palace of Prince Ilanaji in Brinidem. Brinidem is a city-state on an island that takes up a meager forty-five square miles. It has always been ruled by a prince, and never a king. The powerful nations have never attempted to conquer it because it is basically good for nothing. Five miles from the coast the ground slopes up a mountain of bare rock until you reach the city. The road to the city is treacherous, and must be taken slowly by a carriage lest you plunge to your death on the rocks. Ilanaji's marble palace takes up one quarter of the city, and has all the luxuries a tyrant prince could desire. He only wanted princess Judah of Altesea to make his happiness complete. When Diorn invaded Altesea, Ilanaji tried to strike a deal with King Ellyanus of Altesea. He would give Ellyanus his entire army (Not that it was very big) if Ellyanus would give him his oldest daughter. Ellyanus only scoffed at him.
El Ahir is more famous. It contains the palace of Omri Khanh, last king of the Namat. In ancient times the Namat rivaled the Altessi. King Ellyanus the first, (not Ellyanus Tiberi also known as Marcellus,) did them some injustice, so they cursed him to enmity with their people. He didn't believe their curse would alight, and drove them from their lands into the desert. Three hundred years later the Altesean kings gave the Namat's lands to the marauding northmen known as the Cassidys. Up until the 1820's the Namatti continually fought the Cassidys over their land. In 1816 Omri personally ordered the murder of Royal Cassidy, whose pasture crossed the border into Namatti land by two miles. Omri's cavalry burned Royal's farm and slaughtered his workers. The only known survivors of the outrageous attack were Royal's three young children, Victor, Royal Jr., and Prisca. King Richard of Altesea paid Omri a large sum of money to stay out of Altesea, but his "successor," Ellyanus, would not kowtow to Omri.
Omri's palace is a vast complex of towers and gardens beautified at the expense of his people. When he lost his city to King Ellyanus and General Victor Cassidy in 1831 his palace was looted by angry Altesean soldiers who lusted after vengeance for slain brothers or fathers. They ripped to shreds all the tapestries that told of Omri's ancestors, and made a bonfire of his fine furniture that was carved with lions and eagles. They toppled the stone eagles that stood guard outside the gate. Omri himself was murdered by his own people, who thought he should have done a better job of protecting the city. I imagine Omri's palace looking a bit like this.
El Ahir is more famous. It contains the palace of Omri Khanh, last king of the Namat. In ancient times the Namat rivaled the Altessi. King Ellyanus the first, (not Ellyanus Tiberi also known as Marcellus,) did them some injustice, so they cursed him to enmity with their people. He didn't believe their curse would alight, and drove them from their lands into the desert. Three hundred years later the Altesean kings gave the Namat's lands to the marauding northmen known as the Cassidys. Up until the 1820's the Namatti continually fought the Cassidys over their land. In 1816 Omri personally ordered the murder of Royal Cassidy, whose pasture crossed the border into Namatti land by two miles. Omri's cavalry burned Royal's farm and slaughtered his workers. The only known survivors of the outrageous attack were Royal's three young children, Victor, Royal Jr., and Prisca. King Richard of Altesea paid Omri a large sum of money to stay out of Altesea, but his "successor," Ellyanus, would not kowtow to Omri.
Omri's palace is a vast complex of towers and gardens beautified at the expense of his people. When he lost his city to King Ellyanus and General Victor Cassidy in 1831 his palace was looted by angry Altesean soldiers who lusted after vengeance for slain brothers or fathers. They ripped to shreds all the tapestries that told of Omri's ancestors, and made a bonfire of his fine furniture that was carved with lions and eagles. They toppled the stone eagles that stood guard outside the gate. Omri himself was murdered by his own people, who thought he should have done a better job of protecting the city. I imagine Omri's palace looking a bit like this.
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| Yes yes, I know it's a Byzantine cathedral. But can't you imagine the Haggia Sophia as a palace? |
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