Shantak/HeptaCampusMap

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In the center of the small cluster of buildings rose the tallest of them. A squat fat little tower, that could be no more than four or five stories high. It was a round little building made of a dark black stone, as were most of the other buildings it presided over. It sat there as though a mal treated dog watching over it's bones. There must have been a door somewhere, though none of the children could see any at this distance, and what might have been windows or simply dark smudges of shadow or soot marred the lesser blackness of the ancient weathered stone.

It was round, apparently circular, and without much adornment. It wore a tall pointed roof as though a hat. The conical cap's shingles being a reddish brown and appearing to need replacing in more than one location. Looking old and worn out, something was wrong with the tower. The more each of the students attempted to discern the details of their new home, the more their heads hurt and their gaze seemed to slide off to the features surrounding it.

There were a dozen or so of those features. Nearest the tower were four buildings, three of which were no longer buildings at all. They were simply the crumbling ruins of what might have once been homes or meeting halls of somesort, now they were simply broken stone walls each of which boor a stout wooden door. It was odd in foact, because even from here it was apparent that the buildings had been all but destroyed centuries ago, and yet they did indeed have a doorway and a door in each.

The fourth building was the only one not made of a black stone. It was pur white marble. A small humble household with a tall thin tower rising from the eastern side. The tower itself was a slender graceful thing, far more distinctive and modern than anything else around it. Although it certainly didn't compare with the floating archways or the various gravity defying structures found in all the best House Prefectures and of course the Imperial City, in the present company it was a thing of simple grace and beauty.

Beyond these four buildings, there were a series of landscaped areas, clearly designated for one purpose or another, the only obvious one was a garden of some sort, with a low stone structure attached. The rooftop of this structure was either additional garden space, or had simply been overrun by ivy and weeds.

Finally, there were seven long low buildings, two stories or so high, and reminiscent of the dormatories of many primary schools. These were likely the residences of the students. They were spaced more or less evenly radiating around the outside. Each fit into one of the seven points of the long low wall surrounding the compund and seperating it, if only just from the rest of creation outside.