Great Diamond
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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 palace and school were placed to the north, not far from each other, and the museum and 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.[1]
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, goats on sticks, and fried bananas. 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 are 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.[2]
Notable Features
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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. Clearsight was noted to have a study room of her own within the library, inhabited with a blue ink puddle, five tables, and partially blank scrolls. 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.
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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
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.
Legends
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.
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References
- ↑ Darkstalker, page 328
- ↑ Darkness of Dragons, page 245
