Tribunal Hall
The seat of the Ironroot Tribunal: a deep oval hall cut down into the Shelf, its vault pierced by the ironroot itself – thick dark roots that break through the ceiling and run down the walls into the floor, warm to the touch and faintly pulsing, which the Tusk story calls the veins of the pinned god. The Matriarch-Justice stands on a broad laterite dais at the far end; the ant secretaries sit in tiered galleries cut into the roots around her. The floor is the court's famous instrument: a membran...
Located in The Chitinous Mandate.