Location, the Court House

The Court House, located at the northern core of the town, is the seat of the mayor, the city council, and the municipal government. Given Tower Vallery's loose association with the rest of the Imperium, the Court House is for all practical purposes the ultimate authority in the town.

It is an imposing sight, modeled after the likeness of London’s Westminster Abbey, with Gothic spires towering into the sky on each of the rectangular structure’s four corners. Hundreds of stone arches cover the frontal facade, enclosing portals of reflective glass. An enormous clock tower made of smooth, gray stone, with an obelisk-crowned roof and a horizontally ribbed exterior, reachs hundreds of feet into the skyline from the middle of an open courtyard in the center of the square-shaped courthouse. Men on steel scaffolds surround the lower half of the tower, slowly making their way upward while overlapping the stone exterior with strips of pure ivory carved with intricately detailed images of winged goddesses riding upon stone bulls.