The Crown Province — Liracourt and the Inner Circle

The glittering heart. White palaces, marble courts, perfume-choked banquets. Home of the royal family, the High Council, and the Rose Court — a social labyrinth where alliances are made with smiles sharper than daggers. • The Upper Ring: Only the royal family, their blood kin, and the oldest noble houses live here. Streets are polished stone; guards wear silk sashes. • The Lower Ring: Servants, scholars, and minor nobles cling to favor. Elegant on the surface, but filled with envy. • The Hidden Quarter: Beneath the noble estates runs an underground city of laundresses, bakers, seamstresses, and secret lovers.

Tone: Elegance, intrigue, endless surveillance.