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Whitewood: named for cottonwoods
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Ennearch Simeon: Named for st Simeon Stylites
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Ennearch Isidor: gift of isis, gifts charity it's a bit meh but I asked mallory for a letter and she said i.
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Brody: https://www.reddit.com/r/askgaybros/comments/4zpe82/generally_speaking_what_are_some_fuckboy_names/
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the City Eternal: The seat of the Hierarchy, region in north west Haven, delineated by the Shining Walls.
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Includes the G
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Includes the Meeting Hall, a great outdoor auditorium for Council meetings,
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Redgrove -> real life counterpart is by espanola (nice coordination between red of redgrove and spain maybe idk)
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Hall of Roots:
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A great hall in the City Eternal, housing the Office of Charity as well as many of the acolytes.
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Palace of skies:
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The great palace made of a pure white stone and preserved holly, which contains the Hierarch's offices among others
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The Office of Charity took up the greater part of the third and fourth floors of the Hall of Roots.
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Panels of black stone lined the walls, inlaid with white and red wood in lines that tapered to feather thin points.
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Sarla thought it would have required Dwarven assistance to create the seamless gaps between stone and wood.
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The panels depicted the Lord of the Mountain in the process of creating the Hidden Lands: the creation of a new space separate from the Outer Lands, the creation of Beasts, Birds and Dwarves, the Tripartition of the Voices.
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Sarla knew Auroklos wasn't part of any Office, but the beauty of the halls in the Office of Charity brought home how out of favour her mentor was.
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Sarla made her way to the antechamber before the Ennearch's office.
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Two assistants stood stiffly by the door, wearing brown Renunciate robes with a gold sash over a shoulder
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The Ennearch was busy, as one of them told Sarla, so she sat and waited.
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The opulent room smelled of peat and mist, and the gold and white themes around her looked gaudy and overdone, nothing like Auroklos's cosy dark woods.
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The yak on the left fidgeted, and as time went on seemed less comfortable with his post.
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They both looked very young, and the effect was less an honour guard for the Ennearch than a few teenagers pretending to be tough.
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Sarla sighed, and continued to wait.
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Eventually, at some signal the yak on the right opened the door to the inner chamber and let Sarla in.
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His Exalted Grace Ennearch Isidor, Paragon of Charity and Patron of the Northern Realms was, in Sarla's estimation, a colossal dick.
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In just a few minutes, he made it clear that Sarla's presence was a great favour to Auroklos, and that Isidor would tolerate no embarrassment.
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Sarla's role was simple: remain quiet and use the Meadowlark exactly as instructed.
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When Sarla asked what precisely she might be instructed to do, the Ennearch gave her a withering glance, and dismissed her to wait outside again.
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Outside, the fidgety yak gave her a sympathetic glance.
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―He can be a bit overbearing.
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Don't take it too personally though.
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The one on the right attempted to give Fidgetboy a menacing glance, which on the young Renunciate's face looked more like particularly troublesome gas.
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―The Practicants in our Office who would go on this trip are both unavailable, Grumpyface told Sarla.
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Redgrove's Flocks follow Ennearch Isidor, so you will be there to grant petitions.
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Fertilising the grove and so on.
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Understand?
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―Both sick at the same time?
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That's unlucky.
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Why aren't there more Practicants in Charity?
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Grumpyface frowned at her and didn't seem to answer, and when Fidgetboy started to open his mouth, Grumpyface cleared his throat loudly.
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―I'm sorry, Practicant Sarla, but that is the business of the Office of Charity.
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If you're so curious, I'm sure you can ask Isidor.
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The coach will leave as soon as he's ready.
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Until then, you can wait here.
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After a while, the Ennearch emerged from his office, dressed in the full robes of office; red as Ennearch with a gold sash to represent Charity.
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―Brody, carry this for me, he said.
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He handed a small bag to Grumpyface, whose name was apparently Brody.
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―We're going to arrive late.
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Come, move quickly, Isidor said, starting to head outside.
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The four of them exited the building in relative silence.
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Outside, a large coach hummed with activity, with another yak standing outside gesturing them in.
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Sarla had heard about the transport coaches that moved without rails, but she'd never actually seen them in action.
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It was only worthwhile when leaving the Haven for faraway towns, and that too only if there were no other modes of transport.
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Ennearch Isidor boarded the coach first, entering the large enclosed compartment in the back.
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The others followed, and Sarla saw the yak waiting outside enter the smaller front compartment.
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Inside, the compartment was ringed with windows, with three rows of seats spaced closely together.
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It looked as though six yaks could squeeze in.
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The Ennearch took a row to himself, and Brody the next, leaving Fidgetboy and Sarla to squeeze into the back.
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―This is all Dwarf-made, Fidgetboy whispered to Sarla, presumably because she was looking around too much at the unfamiliar vehicle.
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Ottowan design for the body, or something.
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The engine is commissioned from Mountberg.
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―Brody, did you ask Sarla her full range of capabilities?, Isidor said loudly, cutting off the discussion on the coach.
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I would find it very displeasing if we reach
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