Thread by @TheEdVerse

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Halthandrus Saerrentaun, an aging, rotund man-mountain gourmand, glutton, and jovial friend-to-many (who behind his affable manner is a coldly ruthless friend of none) is the patriarch of the Saerrentaun family, whom he…
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…dragged up from somewhat-prosperous-but-ambitious to the heights of wealth and power by acquiring city properties and businesses in return for paying off the debts of those who sold out to him. He maintains bitter rivalries…
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…with the Malraun and Brevvesk families (also wealthy and successful owners of webs of diverse businesses), and these three families own the largest towers—in girth as well as in height.
A fourth family, the Immurtalans, …
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…dwells in a cluster of six lesser-in-diameter, shorter towers all linked by flying bridges on their thirteenth and fourteenth floors, and so claims to have the “biggest” abode in the city, but the Malraun and Brevvesk towers…
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…both have twenty-one floors, and the Saerrentaun tower has twenty-six floors and is a vast oval, twice the size of Malraunspires and Brevveskgates, and almost as large across (at its greatest expanse) as the width of Immurtalan Towers.
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Like the other “great towers” of the city, the Spires of Saerrentaun has reception rooms, warehousing space, and stables at ground level, granaries and pantries above, kitchens and some soaring rooms-of-state above that, five…
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…floors of offices for various family-run businesses opening off balconies of those rooms of state, then a solid five floors of workshops, laundries, and servants’ quarters, and then palatial family apartments and family…
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…chambers above that, with rooftop gardens amid the soaring pennant-spikes and dovecote spires.
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