Within the Russian Palace, which had been rebuilt after the fall of the capital city like so many of the buildings that existed now, there was a room. This was not surprising, as buildings do tend to have rooms, lots of them in fact. It was one of their main features.
What was curious about this room was that it was designed with a semi-circular recess in the wall furthest from the door. Various mirrors and reflective scales torn from beasts had been set up along the semi circular wall of this recess, all of them pointing towards the circular floor of the recess.
The floor in question, which was reflected in all of these surfaces, had a deeply intricate runic circle carved into the stone surface. The stone in question was even one singular piece, so that no lines in the brick work or imperfections in the building process would interrupt this runic carving.
