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Summary
The citadel towers boldly forth into the sky from within the heart of the Omnillian District, attracting citizens to its doors. The inquisitive House Omnillian toil away within to create and understand as much of Nodd as they possibly can. Quin Aven, the House's citygod, is contained within the uppermost part of the citadel.
Services
The basement level of the citadel contains the fodder pens. This is where citizens who have had the misfortune of being "chosen" for experimentation are held until they are needed. Some are used to test innovative new weapons or artifacts while others are experimented on for sake of cataloguing, general research, medical knowledge, and more.
The surface level entry to the citadel and the lower floors above it contain the House's armory and expansive menagerie. The armory acts primarily as a showcase of Omnillian's inventions and technology. The House frequently has on display intimidating vehicles armed to the teeth and brimming with gloam, artifacts of potentially devastating destruction, and anything else that can wow or impress onlookers.
The menagerie acts to show off Omnillian's knowledge of Nodd's species, many of which are held as a live specimen in the menagerie and are still actively studied. Knowledge that House mages were able to obtain about the species is on display in front of each exhibit.
The middle floors of the citadel hold House Omnillian's laboratories and hospital. The labs are where all of Omnillian's experimentation occurs and within can be seen almost any imaginable experiment involving gloam and its incorporation into new artifacts and technology of any sort. Quite frequently fodder from the basement level are helpfully volunteered to aid in these experiments.
The hospital offers House mages extra access to their medical needs but the staff are just as interested in studying and understanding injuries and conditions as they are in treating them. There is also a significant focus on body augmentation procedures and surgeries and much of the work in the labs is done in tandem with the hospital staff accordingly.
The highest levels of House Omnillian are where their troves of knowledge are both held and studied. Libraries fill the upper levels with any and all information that House mages have discovered and recorded, readily available for their peers to peruse and learn from. It is said that no small part of the library is Quin's own work, but whispers tell of the untold wealth of knowledge he is yet forbidden from revealing.
Atmosphere
The Omnillian Citadel stands apart from the other House citadels in a few respects, one being that the surface level floor, that which holds the menagerie and armory, is relatively open to the public. House Omnillian is eager to show off its technological advances and discoveries for combat and protection as well as their staggering collection of many of the living species of Nodd. Each one is contained for viewing with detailed information presented before it, all gleaned through Omnillian's studious efforts.
Even more unusual, however, is that most mages who have joined House Omnillian have frequent contact with Quin himself. Quin, by merit of being literally built into the citadel itself, communicates readily with members remotely through displays and control panels that litter the citadel. Quin even has a variety of artificial bodies that he "loads" his awareness into which provides him some measure of freedom to roam the citadel. There are some, however, who deny any of this to be true and suspect there to be some sort of artificial awareness that is not actually Quin but simply parades as him, and wonder if the citygod even truly resides at the top of the citadel at all.
Point(s) of Interest
- Fodder pens
- Menagerie
- Armory
- Laboratories
- Hospital
- Libraries
- Studies
