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Nestled between two shipping offices in Union Square is a squat, two story dreary gray concrete building. It's heavy wooden double doors date back to an era that existed before the sleek modernism seen other places in the city. The doors open to a faux-marble staircase leading down, immediately on the left of the entrance is a discrete gold plaque that reads "Donated by the Lancea Sanctum's Elijah." The stairs themselves lead downwards at least another twenty feet into what would be a basement area. Light is given by a chandelier sculpted in a way to display fish swimming in a shoal located immediate above the bottom of the stairs.
The room itself is a large open space with chairs placed carefully in rows facing a central chair on a short dais. Each row of chairs is different in design from the others: the first row has two chairs, the second has three, the third has four and the last row has five. Support columns that would have been there to help hold up the heavy concrete structure have been plastered over into decorative ionic style pillars. The ceiling displays equally ornate plaster work, on very close inspection specific names can be seen inked in tiny script in discrete places: Phillip Bruno, Serianna Merrick, Brianna Skye.
The walls are set at least a foot on each side inwards from the exterior and each wall displays four stained glass images, each image centered between plaster columns. A larger stained glass window exists behind a slightly raised dais. The windows show an artistically interpreted history of Carcosa read clockwise from the first image to the right of the dais to the image behind it, the story ends in a "liberation" scene referencing the Consilium; written in tiny letters below the last column is the name Dashan Ur-Nanshe. While the ceiling should be three stories tall, it's in fact only two; a drop ceiling exists over much of the room allowing for a decorative glass cupola - and those with amazing eyesight can see along the bottom curve the name Silvia Bancroft has been written. Hanging down from the peak of the cupola is a second artistic display, this time of jeweled birds in flight.
It's impossible to see the true beauty of the room until it's arranged for Court though. On that night there are retainers present to open the doors for each Kindred as they enter. The Court chamber itself is lit in myriad colors as artificial light shines through the windows and cupola into the room itself. The chandelier casts shadows on these vibrant lights in the form of distorted fish, the same is done by the birds. They merge in the center of the room like an Escher painting.
For those who are aware, one of the stained glass windows is actually a door that swings open giving access to behind the false walls. Mostly there's just lighting apparatus and random tools, as well as a set of stairs that lead up to behind the cupola area. For all intents and purposes, it looks like a storage space more than any thing else.