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===Appearance===
The Sky-Pearl is a city of impossible geometry and dwarfing, awe-inspiring architecture. In its bounds, the horizon is fuzzy, and the countless waterways pierce the landscape like a web. Outside, one can’t look at it directly, but if it’s there, it will always be seen in the corner of one’s vision. It resides in the Mansus, but sometimes it bleeds into the Wake, and, occasionally, it can be seen drifting into Nowhere.
====The Palace====
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====The Alabaster Spire====
A towering building that protrudes from the City like a broken rib, etched with familiar motifs and bas-reliefs. It's the headquarters of the Minister in Black, as well as the seat of the Ministry of Ash, a law enforcement agency that oversees peace and order on the streets of the Sky-Pearl and does things that are not to be discussed in the open.
====The Tourmaline Embassy====
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====The Chitinous Office====
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====The Parliament of Cogs====
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====The Ziggurat Reversed====
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====The Pearl Orchard====
The Orchard is mostly a flat garden with sparse tiered "hills" with buildings on top of them. There is an ungodly amount of songbirds. The walkways are made out of beige stone and they all merge with each other in the same way the rivers do. The visitors to the Orchard will always end up in the center if they walk forward; they will always end up in the city proper if they walk in the opposite direction from where the pathways lead.
There are small canals that feed bigger ponds. The place where the Obelisk herself resides is a geometrical body of water that is somewhere on the borders between being a large pond and a small lake. There is a singular bridge-like thing that extends all the way to the Obelisk but doesn't touch her. The size of the pond/lake, the bridge, and the Obelisk herself is inconsistent - she may be an absolutely dwarfing, two-kilometers tall tower, or the diametrical opposite of that.
The Groundskeepers, the Obelisk's Long, can be seen landscaping, maintaining the gardens, or doing less coherent things.
====The Splendid Collegium of Abyssal Findings and Archeologic Endeavours====
Known to the overwhelming majority of the City as the Archeologic Society,
====The FNORD====
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===Principles===
The Stone Meridian embodies the very principles that brought it into being. It is hopeful, for nothing can remain for long without hope. It brings home, shelter, and comfort to those who are desperate for it, for home is essential if one is to persist. It brings purpose for those who were robbed of it, it gives second chances to those who were misled, and it reshapes those who are beyond the reach of mercy. And, at last, it remembers, for sacrifices fade, too.
