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LONDON: CITY OF GATES
THE ROYAL ESTATE
The Majority of the Royal estate has long stood outside of the Actual city, extending south and east from the Centre of the Feild. When london had an Ard Righ this Estate was reserved for the Armies and guardians of the Fae nation and it was from the Southern freeholds that the Fionna Regents arose. In times of War the King, and later the Regent could take shelter inside the City walls, most usually in the Tower of London itself.
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TOWER OF LONDON
Unmistakable from its images on countless postcards and tourist tack, the Tower of London has been an important holding of London's Royalty since the times of William the Conqueror. The Tower served historically as a royal palace, a political prison, a place of execution, an arsenal, a royal mint, a menagerie, and a public records office.
Located on the north bank of the River Thames, the ground was a major port area before the construction of docks farther downstream in the 19th century. In the Middle Ages the Tower of London became a prison and place of execution for politically related crimes. During the 1990s restoration work was carried out in various parts of the Tower, notably in the medieval apartments in Wakefield and St. Thomas's towers. This work was guided by the members of House Fionna and allowed other parts of the old Freehold to be reopened. The Fionna Sidhe, along with their broader scope of Changeling influence, worked towards having the fortress designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1988. London's Fae have a knack for making elements of the Banal world work in their favour and benefit from living in such a well established city.
A military garrison is maintained within the Tower, which with its precincts constitutes a "liberty" outside local jurisdictions, both Mortal and fae. It is held for the sovereign by a constable, who is now always a field marshal and the last five have been Kinain to the Trolls. There is a resident governor, who occupies the 16th-century Queen's House on Tower Green and is in charge of the yeoman warders, or "beefeaters," as they are popularly called. These men at Arms have been completely infiltrated by the local Trolls and their Kinain. They still wear a Tudor uniform and live within the Tower, and their responsibilities include guiding tours for the Tower's two million to three million annual visitors.
The whole complex of buildings that make up the Tower of London cover 18 acres and within its fasting the Tower gateway stands silent and brooding, having opened once in 1969 and once again in the final days of the Accordance war.
The central keep-known as the White Tower- is the nucleus of a series of concentric defences enclosing an inner and an outer ward. The inner "curtain" has 13 towers surrounding the White Tower, the outer curtain is surrounded by the moat, originally fed by the Thames but now drained. The armouries that now occupy the White Tower house arms and armour from the early Middle Ages to modern times as well as Chimerical treasures. . By the Tower is Tower Bridge, connecting The Southern estate that have also served as the Royal estate, with the Central estates.
Ravens with clipped wings are kept on the grounds by the yeoman ravenmaster; and a tradition dating from the second half of the 17th Century states that, should the ravens leave the Tower, the fortification and the state would fall. Not for the first time in the Towers History, the current Ravenmaster is shapeshifter of the Corax breed.
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