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He felt swallowed among the elder oaks that lined the shoulder, Gannis Falls had cultivated those trees for years as a sort of notable feature on the town. And every year, the town council made it a political politeness to dedicate one tree to a notable Gannis Falls resident. Collin Bainbridge was the youngest recipient of a tree in the town’s history. He sped past his tree without wincing, flinching, or even diverting his eyes. It took self will and control the likes he never experienced to not look at the plaque spiked into the ground before his tree. Still, even in that moment passing it, Collin could see more than he cared to see of it – dark, freckled bark with thick overhanging limbs that seemed to almost be bare of greenery. A dead tree for a man who was responsible for millions of lives. Fitting. Or maybe the rapidly setting sun bleeding through the trees in puddles of melting gold darkened the elder oak, obscuring the leaves. Perhaps it wasn’t dead after all. Collin shook. These ambassadors all live within their own embassies but the Emperor and his government do business out of the Palace of the Empire, a massive, monolithic structure made entirely out of basalt. Quarried from the Domani Mountains in what is now the Domain of Pagans and shipped downriver to Lake Ilia and then across the lake on huge ships, the rock was a dark gray and very easily worked by the relatively primitive, warlike, and xenophobic Gnathar who built the Empire out of the merging of several tribes of early Gnathar. Those early warrior peoples had little in the way of artistic talent and even if they had such gifts, they were more interested in keeping what they conquered and massive walls and a colossal palace for their leader was what they thought would do it.Several centuries later, Emperor Maxmar-Kan I resided in the same palace his forbearers built on the Ilian Plain. Upon first seeing the Palace, many a foreign envoy and master merchant took one look at the place from which.
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