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Voran’s eyes took several minutes to make sense of the bizarre surroundings. The first thing he saw was a hearth, but it wasn’t in the middle of the room. It was in an indentation in the wall, surrounded by a brick-layered pipe that led up to the paneled ceiling, and apparently allowed the smoke to leave the room by expelling it through the roof. He had never seen anything like it. Then he noticed that the darkness of the room was at least partly due to dark wood paneling that covered all the walls. The panels were intricately carved, down to the smallest detail, depicting moments in history.
He saw battles, victory feasts, many scenes of kings on thrones, a few encounters of High Beings with kings and commoners alike. It was like a history lesson of the Three Lands from the moment of
