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This is where the residents of the palace, or those just visiting, sleep.

The classes do not dine together, nor does the royal family spend all mealtimes with their court. Because of this, the palace has several different dining areas.

The many myriad mazes of hallways and side corridors of the Palace; careful, lest you get lost!

The palace has more than its share of libraries, however its largest, and most impressive, lies in an outbuilding and is the favored destination for scholars and avid readers. Consisting of four stories, three are filled with shelving, and the ground floor consists of small workspaces, administrative areas, and a small lounge.

This is the place any resident of the palace retreats to when they are wounded or hurt in some way more serious than a simple papercut or cat scratch. Though soldiers will sometimes come whining about paper cuts anyway when they're forced to fill out any sort of paper work.

The palace gardens, while not the most practical use of such large expanses of space nor as magnificient as they once were, are quite remarkable. Carefully designed by mages gifted in that area, the impressive green space is one where anyone would like to spend a sunny day.

The perfect location for pages and squires to improve their skills, and for knights to keep skills already gained sharp. There are several yards - some smaller ones ideal for sparring, some longer ones best suited for jousting and archery, and some that are just larger in general, best suited for group training.

The horses in the palace stables serve countless purposes. Some pull carriages, others are used by the pages, or are the mounts of knights, and more still belong to noble residents or guests. To accommodate such a large number, the stables actually consist of three separate buildings, with a large staff of grooms and stablehands.

This is the building that makes knights. At midwinter of their fourth year as squires, youngsters come here and sit an evening vigil. Within it lies the Chamber of the Ordeal, where squires must face their fears in silence to become knights, or die trying.

Tortall's grandest of universities has made a name for itself over the years as a prime location for the training of healers and scholars; as well as a place to find magical innovations and conduct research.

This is the area of the grounds where the specialized unit known as the King's Own is quartered along with their mounts and armory.

The Royal Forest borders on Corus, the capital. The pages and Queen's Rider trainees often visit the forest for training. It is known to be inhabited by spidrens.

Located on the edge of the Royal Forest, this is the area in which the specialized force known as the Queen's Riders is quartered along with their mounts and other necessities.

Situated above Prettybone, the Highfields district of Corus has fallen in the past 300 years from being a tolerable place to live to being just as bad as the Lower City but far more vulnerable to illnesses due to its smaller area.

Located between Highfields and the River Olorun, this slightly upscale district of the city boasts a large marketplace and reasonably attractive, if usually cramped, living spaces.

Like Prettybone, this is a slightly upscale district of the city, though it does see more in the way of marketplace scams. Best known for a large, reasonably well-kept park at its center, an unusual amount of green space for an inner-city area that is neither the Common, nor the Palace, Flash lies along the southern bank of the River Olorun, north of Unicorn and Patten, and east of the Lower City.

Craftsmans District arose from the poverty-ridden ruins of the once fashionable Patten district. It's a trade district that catered to King Jonathan V's warmongering efforts and is left floundering now that peace has arrived. It actually only takes up a little over half of the previous district, the rest having been swallowed by the Lower City to the west.

The most prestigious district in the city, Unicorn lies to the east of Craftsman and Upmarket, and to the south of Flash. It's half the size it once was, the other part making up part of Craftsmans. As upscale as a citizen can get without relocating to the palace, the high-security (which over time has led to the lowest crime rate in Corus) area is as fashionable as it is pricey.

This is where the many temples devoted to various gods are, the most well-known ones being those of Mithros and the Great Mother Goddess.

Being the poorest district in Corus has also made the Lower City the most crime-ridden in the city, and few higher-paying job opportunities make becoming well-off enough to move elsewhere a rarity. Coincidentally it is also the largest district, not to mention its expansion to overcome half of the former Patten district. Still, to many commoners, 'The Cesspool' is home, and they make do.

A grassy area south of the Lower City and north of the Temple District in Corus. People like to gather here and hold festivals such as Beltane - and on normal days picnics and the like are enjoyed on the grounds. People like to bring their horses to the Common to exercise them, and a track of sorts has been worn into the soil as a result.

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