Garden of Ten Thousand Glories

Located in the eastern Dynastic Districts of the Imperial City, the Garden of Ten Thousand Glories is a walled villa covered entirely in glass domes, interconnected greenhouses filled with rare plants, whose mirrors and curtains allow the flow of the Unconquered Sun's light to be carefully regulated into each. Bamboo pipes along the walls, manned by slave-pumps, ensure a regular spray of water onto the flora contained within, while butterflies and bees flit about inside between the flowers. The bees dwell in the apiary greenhouse, home to production of fine-quality honey.

At the centre of the Garden can be found the tallest dome, in which the laboratory of the Garden's mistress Cynis Patila is located. Here can be found the rarest of plants, and the tools for extracting oils and pollens, as well as Patila's bedchamber. Steps lead below to the Garden cellars, where circling shelves bear countless bottles of perfume ingredients arrayed around the perfumer's organ where Patila completes her work.

Visitors to the Garden are most often recieved at the greenhouse adjoining the front gates, home to lush foliage and a pond home to various multicoloured frogs from across the Threshold. Hidden by the leaves, cages contain all manner of insects whose buzz and drone provide background hum for conversations while not annoying the eye or risking poisoned stings by flitting freely about. When an insect is needed for a perfume mixture, or when the mistress of the Garden desires a particular background chorus, slaves pump perfumed smoke to stun the specific insects required.