"Empress erevae and the council of the six moons will meet with you today. They will listen to your tale, hear any requests you have, and (declare your sentence?)" Respect, with 2 guards.
"comport yourself well, bow before the empress, say yes empress, don't speak out of turn" Guard
The guards are very skilled. They move like fighters.

we get noodles

we go to the temple district

• it's very nice
• tourist destinations
• shrine of the time the goddess Azena blessed the city
• heroes grave. person who first used the sword of light is there
• temple of windar, bells ringing loudly. 2 flights of freestanding stairs tossing pottery urns off the end.

pass through high class residential district

• nobility
• upper class houses

imperial Palace district

• less of a district, it's that big, but it's a whole palace
• vast gardens, pools, walkways over ponds
• immense and palpable shield as we enter the district
  • probably does more than one thing at a time
  • source: the palace is a giant sigil
• sentinel auditorium, place for politics
• grand library imperius, glass ceiling
• largest council chamber I've ever seen
  • entrance decorated with statues of all the great being, ascendants, tiles on the floor of a sunburst. even a statue of rathor?
    • more legion of the raven legionares
  • in The actual room
    • They announce all of the people
• "Havlock's contingency"
  • pg 24, the contingency deals with xataquar showing up
• someone explains Rember kuso's sword, saying it can detect breaches to the far realm
• we tell them a bunch of stuff and they don't seem to believe us.
• we do a skill challenge to figure out what the glyph does
  • the entire district is under a powerful teleport shield
  • there is a -5 antimagic for anyone that is not keyed in on the system
  • Azena is on a ley line, but something additional is powering the sigil, Azena's blessing
• we go to the throne room
  • it's big
  • "quite wide"
  • the ceiling is definitely magical
  • real talk with respect
    • I ask him why he didn't take high wizard. He didn't want the title of arch wizard
    • havlock was a student of the tower, he has a statue in the tower. joined the crimson guardians, defeated a litch on some dragon isle adventure
    • Havlock was a seer. he was promoted to be the empress's advisor for a time
    • Crimson guardians disappeared
• We go to the library to study for the rest of the day and sort of we continue until

a week of studying

we are summoned to another council chamber

• empress and most of the council (merchant lord, matriarch, prime cleric of the light are not present)
• the sixth division of the imperial empire, and paladins on the light will join in facing the litch xataquar.
• we get 3 raven legionare for the rest of the month
• regarding research in the caverns under the tower, we get access after we graduate