Palace of Heart's Desire

The Palace of Heart's Desire, also known as Lavoglia, was the personal palace of the archfey Zybilna, creator and ruler of Prismeer.

"Now if you seek to defeat Skabatha Nightshade, to truly achieve such a feat, you must restore Zybilna. The Hourglass Coven has imprisoned her within her castle, the Palace of Heart's Desire."

- Lamorna the unicorn.

Location
It was situated in the center of Prismeer, between the three inter-planar realms of Hither, Thither, and Yong.

Description
The marble palace was otherworldly in nature, appearing behind a fog of clouds and lit as if in perpetual twilight.

Structure
While the palace held two stories with ceilings each, along with numerous towers that ascended far above. Its architectural style appeared quite grand, with regal stateliness accented by supernatural beauty. It had fallen into disrepair however. Its façade was overrun with massive vines that extended upwards from a monstrously overgrown garden. The garden was the home to several ettercaps that migrated from the forests of of Thither and a family of awakened badgers.

First Floor
Entering into the palace, a hallway painted to resemble the night's sky led into a grand central courtyard, known as the Court of Storms. There was no ground within the court, but rather Zybilna's throne and several encircling platforms hovered over a perilous vortex of storm clouds and lightning. It was from here that the archfey hosted her courtiers from the Feywild and beyond.

Beyond the courtyard were eight spiral staircases that led to the palace's towers and smaller chambers common to most castles, albeit with a twist: servant's quarters staffed by goblins, kitchens with pixie bakers, and a dining terrace that featured animated crockery, dishes, and utensils.

Beyond these more mundane rooms were Zybilna's personal records room, which housed every deal she made with mortals, the aviary that housed her giant owl Bloodybeak, a room containing a vat of demonic sludge from the Abyss, and her personal library, that housed many of her less-esoteric tomes. Within the center of these rooms, just beyond the Zybilna's throne was a grand throne room that held her personal cauldron. It was there that her body remained in stasis, frozen in time and space.

Atmosphere
The palace had many locked doors that were marked with the symbol of either a lion or a stag. These could only be opened by placing a unique crown of silver needles atop the head of one of two animated metal statues. Each of these magical guardians hated the other, and dwelled within one of the two statues that overlooked the palace's garden.

History
The palace was erected by Zybilna shortly after she created Prismeer, as a refuge for mortals that had been stranded across the planes of existence. In the years following its creation, Zybilna came to trust her three step-sisters, Bavlorna, Endelyn, and Skabatha, hags of the Hourglass Coven. Eventually Zybilna was betrayed by her sisters, when they manipulated two rival adventuring companies called Valor's Call and the League of Malevolence into a battle within the throne room of her palace. As Zybilna was distracted by the conflict, the hags used the archfey's own cauldron to place everyone else in the palace in temporal stasis.

Some time later, a farmer by the name of Sumai visited the palace, carrying a meat-eating awakened pumpkin named Yamzu. He hoped to beckon the hags of the Hourglass Coven to save his animals from Yamzu, without harming the intelligent gourd.

Inhabitants

 * Xinipax, a petrified satyr whose body decorated the palace's garden.

Appearances

 * Video Games
 * Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
 * Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms