Rooms

  A gravity of presence settles heavily just within the archway as the

darkened hall opens into a crescent amphitheater, the space lit by

flickering flames in black iron sconces whose light glints off polished

black marble walls.  Deep alcoves trimmed in gold and obsidian cradle

statues standing in grim, purposeful silence, while blocky partitions hung

with tapestries and paintings define winding lanes that lead toward a satiny

marble floor and an opulent royal carpet.  A painstakingly detailed mural

stretches across one wall as an equally grand artistic tableau spans the

ceiling above, depicting the Knights of Shadow from their earliest emergence

through the dark trials until their arrival in Umbrus Caelum.  Carefully

placed pedestals and glass cases display relics divine and arcane, and atop

a prominent dais rests an Ark cast in disconcerting illumination.  Along the

furthest wall, ancient demons clad in ossified armor or cloaks of flesh

stand petrified by dark power, while beneath the highrise walls lie solemn

memorials to individual knights and the pivotal moments that shaped the

most recent chapter in the long, storied history of the Knights of Shadow.