Meridian Concordat

Notable Locations

The Solar Rostrum

A tiered forum beneath the brass ring where cases of succession, stewardship, and treaty disputes are heard. Voices carry clearly; evasions fall flat. The Rostrum’s stones remember testimony and release it when called by the presiding herald.  

The Crown-Orrery

A city-sized mechanism of coronets and planetary bands mapping lineages, charters, and bonds of fealty. When a house acts for the common good, its band glows; when it preys upon its people, gears seize and dim.  

The Hall of Coronets

An inward cloister where would-be rulers undergo four long trials—Temperance, Equity, Prudence, Valor. Those who emerge changed bear a faint, argent circlet only visible at dusk.  

The Sungild Registry

Endless galleries of charters, patents, verdicts, and treaties, some in Ixtaar’s own hand. The Registry’s attendants can retrieve any faithful record of governance, no matter how obscure, if asked with proper cause.  

Processional Causeways

Suspended avenues that reconfigure with the realm’s schedule, guiding dignitaries along predetermined routes. Those who walk them learn patience: every destination has its season.  

The Quiet Annex

A cool reliquary of veiled tablets, the Ultima Lex, Ixtaar’s final clauses. To lift a veil is to accept a duty long neglected somewhere in the world; the veils only rise for those the realm deems capable.  

Travel and Access

Portals open in mortal halls where duty outweighs vanity. Keys include signet rings borne with humility, charters of service, or tokens of public works completed.    

Inhabitants

Atzul, Regent of the Meridian

Appears in regal purple, wielding chalice and scepter. She favors restoration and stewardship over punishment.  

Legates and Auditors

Brass-masked wardens and parchment-robed heralds who guide petitioners and record judgments.  

The Brass Scriptorium

Living equations and patient scribes who translate between mortal intent and cosmic law.  

Residual Sunwardens

Silent remnants of Ixtaar’s guard, who now usher audiences and preserve decorum.  

Scions of Atzul

Mortal clergy who advise nobles and commoners alike, interpreting between human will and axiomatic decree.

Meridian Noon / Argent Dusk

Noon magnifies clarity and candor; dusk reveals lineages and obligations in silver light.  

Clause Echo

Promises spoken leave luminous threads that fray when broken. Written vows here weave themselves into the shadows of their makers.  

Steward’s Advantage

Acts of protection toward the powerless subtly shift the architecture: doors open, halls shorten, paths ease.

The halls still bear Ixtaar’s sigils, sun-faces and perfect clauses, though their edges have softened. When Ixtaar’s worship crumbled, the keep dimmed and lay abandoned. Atzul entered as custodian, not usurper, taking oath to preserve its truths while reshaping its spirit. Under her regency, the realm became less a vault of frozen laws and more a tribunal where stewardship is tested and celebrated.