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'''Kholinar Palace''' is the seat of [[House Kholin]], [[Kholin princedom]] and the nation of [[Alethkar]].
== Layout ==
The Palace is located in the northern
The main building of the palace stands between the Monastery Dais and the Sunmaker Park. The main entrance leads to twin ballrooms - presumably, a separate one for men and for women. Both ballrooms have access to the garden that forms the northern side of the palace. Directly adjacent to the Grand Entry are the palace garrison and the guest quarters. From the latter, one may reach the Eastern Gallery and through it, the Sunwalk, which leads to the Monastery Dais.
== Palace Guard ==▼
The lower floors of the palace have broad and wide corridors. The palace basements house the unloading docks, used to transport cargo to and from the palace plateau. The upper floors are narrow and cavernous. The royal quarters are located there.{{book ref|sa3|prologue}}
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The Monastery Dais is a large, almost perfectly circular platform near the main building, and may be technically considered part of the palace complex. As its name indicates, it houses the Kholinar ardentia. Notable features include the King's Chapel and a room with eleven lanters. The ardents believe that the lanters represent the [[Silver Kingdoms]], with the last one marking the [[Tranquiline Halls]].{{book ref|sa2|i|12}}
In actuality, the room is the Kholinar [[Oathgate]] chamber, and the entire dais is the Oathgate platform.{{book ref|sa3|86}}
▲== Palace Guard and Queen's Guard ==
The Kholinar Palace has two forces tasked with protecting it: the '''Palace Guard''' and the '''Queen's Guard'''. The Palace Guard is reponsible for protecting both the palace and the city of Kholinar, while the Queen's Guard is responsible for protecting the queen and the royal heir, who in the current times are [[Aesudan Kholin|Aesudan]] and [[Gavinor Kholin]].
Due to the actions of Queen Aesudan, the Queen's Guard has been corrupted either during the [[siege of Kholinar]] or shortly before that by the forces of Odium. Aesudan refers to them as her "Knights Radiant".{{book ref|ob|84}}
== History ==
It is unclear when the palace was built, or when it became the seat of the Kholin family. Likely, it was already in their possession, as it became the seat of the Alethi government following [[Gavilar Kholin|King Gavilar]]'s unification of Alethkar.
King Gavilar was murdered in the palace by [[Szeth]] during a peace celebration with the [[Listeners]].{{book ref|sa1|prologue}} Following that, his descendant, king [[Elhokar Kholin|Elhokar]], moved to the [[Pinnacle]] on the [[Shattered Plains]], so as to be closer to the fighting there. Queen Aesudan - and, later, prince Gavinor - remained at the Palace, along with the widowed queen [[Navani Kholin]], as Aesudan was managing the kingdom in her husband's absence.
At some point after Navani left for the Shattered Plains, the palace came under the influence of the [[Unmade]] [[Ashertmarn]]. This caused the queen to begin acting increasingly erratically, throwing away rotting food, hosting excessively lavish parties and losing interest in ruling Alethkar. The situation came to a peak when ardent [[Pai]] was executed for publicly denouncing this new lifestyle, causing wide-spread riots in the city of Kholinar.
After the riots, the queen recalled her guard into the palace, and appears to have fallen fully under the influence of both Ashertmarn and [[Yelig-Nar]]. Anyone to enter the palace would never return, either killed by the Queen's Guard or subsumed by Ashertmarn, while the spren of the Oathgate beneath the Monastery Dais were subverted by [[Sja-Anat]]. During that period, the Cult of Moments held feasts in the Monastery Dais. A portion of the Palace Guard resisted the lure of the Unmade and were locked in a room. After their release, they claimed that time seemed to pass differently for them, feeling it has only been a few days, not a few weeks, since the riots.{{book ref|sa3|84}}
The strike team led by [[Elhokar Kholin]] tried and failed to re-take the Palace from the queen. Its further fate is unknown so far.
== Notes ==
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