Role

Chapter 12

The artwork before you is difficult at first to even comprehend, and your
mind follows it as if it walked along the path of a mobius strip. The main
feature is a brick-made tower, though it appears in a tenebrous form,
although it is still three dimensional. The shadow it casts is of a gleaming
replica of the Palace, though with it's surface a seemingly more polished
stone than the original. This image is strangely enough two dimensional,
behaving as light is cast over it as a shadow would. In the shadow, at the
base, is a two dimensional golden circle of some sort which is shaded in such
a way it is perceived to be spherical, and this appears as the only object
not made of shadow at the very apex of the standing palace as. Also slightly
differing from the original, the top of the tower itself, which is roughly
square in shape, is shaved to form a pyramid with four sides. Each side bears
in the faintly glimmering color of etched bloodstone the sigils of the four
sects of the Empire, with the shadow sect taking the prominent position at
the front, in the shadow of the glowing sphere. As you gaze upon the art in
it's entirety, you recall the significance of the golden orb, an homage to
the first Emperor under Destuvius' appearance in the modern age, the
ever-piercing left eye of the Legendary Gedunthos Veldrin'Ultrin. As you
smile at the subtle significances of this strange statue, you sense that the
image and shadow of the palace seem to grow almost imperceptibly at all
times, though it is still scarcely larger than a few feet in height.

The base of this sculpture is a slab of sandstone, somehow polished to a
shine, and etched with an inscription in the duergar tongue:
"Designed to honor the Grand Design."