FIRESTONE MANSION
The Firestone Mansion, built in the reign of Prince
Zarbonel of
Mareilon (shortly after 396 BE), towered powerfully over every
surrounding structure in the
Citadel. A vast building, it stretched to
the east and
west for nearly half the length of the actual Citadel itself, and
towered many stories into the sky, tapering into three intricately
carved spires that gleamed in the noon-day sun. The entire building had
been fashioned out of the highly rare and valuable
rosewood, long
before the blights had killed off the source trees that grew the
precious material. Although a complete understanding of rosewood now
lay buried under ages of forgotten knowledge, it was still believed
that the strong, marble-like stone that made up the Mansion and other
rare rosewood buildings was created in the final stages of the rosewood
lifecycle.
Following the formation of
Quendor and Mareilon's
short rebellion (c. 0 GUE), the mayor governed the city from the
official residence at the Firestone Manor. By the end of the fourth
century, the Firestone mayoral building was
completely unguarded. It was assumed that anyone that having gotten
that far into the Citadel was on a completely legitimate errand.
Following
the rebellion of
Zarfil in 398,
Ettelwhiff, who was once one of
murdered Mayor
Hegilburg’s closest confidents, was offered the
Firestone Mansion. This building, along with the rest of Mareilon, was destroyed by the
Endless Fire of 773 GUE.
| SOURCE(S): Zylon the Aged |