The Hall of Pearls

• Original Purpose: A formal meeting hall for merchant councils.
• Current Purpose: Still hosts guild sessions but also lavish weddings, seasonal festivals, and diplomatic receptions.

• A tall rectangular hall, over 200 ft long, with soaring vaulted ceilings covered in elaborate carved river scenes.
• Rows of carved benches and long oak tables can be quickly rearranged for banquets or councils.

• Massive arched doors adorned with ironwork reeds and lilies.
• A side servants’ entrance leads to extensive kitchens and stores.

• The gentle drip of water from wall fountains into mosaic basins.
• A mingling of rich perfume, fresh cut river flowers, and wax polish.
• The low murmur of conversations echoing under pearl light.

• Council elders in heavy river-silk robes, young page runners, guild scribes jotting deals.
• Minstrels often hired to play along the edges during longer functions.

• Dozens of modular banquet tables, padded seats with mother-of-pearl inlays.
• Raised speaking dais with discreet acoustic runes so voices carry perfectly.
• Tall glass vessels holding preserved river blossoms.

• The pearl chandeliers themselves are worth fortunes, enchanted to glow for decades.
• Guild ledgers in locked iron chests recording centuries of contracts and lineages.

A hidden failsafe woven into the chandeliers — if tampered with, they shed a blinding flash to stall thieves.

• Acoustics allow even a whisper at the dais to reach the far end without magical aid.
• Gentle charm enchantments encourage civility, dulling violent impulses during tense negotiations.

• Extended twice over the last century to accommodate larger guilds.
• A hidden archive was added below in 579 AR for secure records.

• Local gray stone faced with polished shell inlays, soaring river motifs.
• Elegant arched windows often left open to let mist drift through

• Watchmen stationed discreetly at each major door.
• Magical seals on all important document chests, only breakable by council signet rings.

• Hosted the crowning of Highmist Haven’s first Merchant Prince.
• Place of countless annual Spring Flood Balls — famed for gowns that trail like drifting riverweed.

• When empty, travelers can pay a modest fee to tour and marvel at the chandeliers.
• Often the first place outlanders glimpse true local pageantry.