The Palace of Serenity

official residence

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location

SerenityCircle
QueenCity, Centralia

owner

PrincessAlice
(in right of the Crown)

commissioned by

PrincessMeredith

The Palace of Serenity is the official residence of the PrincessOfCentralia, and thus the home of PrincessAlice, when she's not off studying at the boarding school in Havensborough. It is a large, elaborate palace located at the central point of downtown QueenCity, where it is the namesake landmark of the SerenityCircle.

Location

The Palace of Serenity is the central landmark of its namesake SerenityCircle, a roughly circular commercial district at the central point of QueenCity, Centralia's capital city.

Many who have visited the palace have remarked that the palace grounds seem much larger from inside the gates than they appear from the city outside. Some have described the palace and its grounds as feeling like a small city in its own right.

History

The Palace of Serenity was built for PrincessMeredith many centuries ago when she established Queen City as the capital of Centralia. It has served as the official residence of Centralia's reigning monarch ever since.

As Princess Meredith has a propensity for flying, the palace was originally built with large trapdoors in the floors to allow Meredith to float between stories without using stairs. Other members of Meredith's household learned very quickly to pay attention to where they were walking, as Meredith had a habit of leaving the trapdoors open. Many of the trapdoors were removed when PrincessJeanette had modern elevators installed in the palace, though a few remain in place today, kept closed and covered by rugs or carpeting.

Amenities

Stellar Nursery

The wing of the palace where Princess Alice primarily resides is known as the Stellar Nursery. The Stellar Nursery is enchanged with a unique form of empathetic magic, rearranging and reconfiguring itself based on the princess's mood. As the princess is notorious for her frequent and extreme mood swings, the layout of the Stellar Nursery is in a near-constant state of flux.

One of the most notable features of the Stellar Nursery is Princess Alice's comfy room, which is full of pillows and blankets and plushies, where the young princess often goes to relax and destress after a long day of "work".

Gardens

A large, elaborate garden surrounds the Stellar Nursery wing of the palace. You've never seen so many pink flowers all in one place.

The princess's personal bodyguard, RobinRavenswood, grows strawberries in the palace gardens. Her strawberries can be quite round.

Dungeon

Princess Alice often likes to "imprison" people in the palace's dungeon, which she believes is a torturous holding area for her enemies. In reality, the dungeon is just a room that's kind of boring. The door doesn't even, like, lock.

Boring Stuff Annex

Easily the least magical and whimsical part of the palace, the Boring Stuff Annex houses the offices of TzeTze, Centralia's Minister of Information Systems. The Annex is very much not palatial in appearance, instead looking like a run-down commercial space from an unremarkable suburban office park, complete with drop ceiling and unsettlingly-tinged fluorescent lighting. Princess Alice has offered to renovate the Annex, but TzeTze declined, citing the mayhem caused the last time the young princess took it upon herself to "renovate" a government facility. (The postmistress of Havensborough is still trying to remove those jawbreakers that keep jamming the mail-sorting equipment.)

The Handler's Quarters

TheHandler resides in a large birdcage-shaped penthouse precariously perched atop the palace. Princess Alice doesn't know what it's like on the inside, on account of she's not allowed in there.

Security

Security and public safety operations within the palace and its grounds are the responsibility of the CentraliaHonorGuard, a division of the CentraliaGuardForces.

The Centralia Honor Guard operates the Palace of Serenity Fire Brigade, the palace's dedicated fire service. Despite having the smallest service area of any fire brigade in Centralia, the palace's fire brigade is one of the busiest. Firefighters usually serve only a few years at the palace before moving on to other departments, as cleaning up after the Princess's latest "experiments" can tire out even the most resilient of first responders.


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PalaceOfSerenity (last edited 2023-08-17 17:24:56 by CentralAvenue)