Night Chamber was a secret penthouse built by the order of Silvanos Goldeneye, with its exact location hidden from the outside world. It could not be seen from the outside through the use of light and shadow. It sat at the top of its tower, and the tower looked the same as any other in the city. Constructed of thousands of deeply fluted bars of solid crystal. Some of those were etched with acid to give it a milky look, while others were polished to a mirror shine. The outline of the tower top could be seen during a cloudless night, or during rainstorms and fog.
There is only one door into the chamber, and the lords who presided there would enter in order of precedence with the Speaker of the Stars first. Here a group of judges would gather to hear the crimes of the accuse, and then render judgment upon them. Then the witnesses arrive, and are not allowed to speak with each other. The last was the accused, who stood at the top of a spiral staircase on a platform below the judges. The Advocate of the Speaker was the one who brought the charges and witnesses against the accused. As of 2750 PC, the chamber had only been used twice with the second being for Vedvedsica's trial.
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- The Forest King, p. 1-2