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'''Kholinar Palace''' is the seat of [[House Kholin]], [[Kholin princedom]] and the nation of [[Alethkar]].
== Layout ==
The Palace is located in the northern portion of the city of [[Kholinar]], atop a large plateau. {{map ref|Kholinar}}
==== Monastery Dais ====
The Monastery Dais is a large, almost perfectly circular platform near the main building, and may be technically considered part of the palace complex. As its name indicates, it houses the Kholinar ardentia. Notable features include the King's Chapel and a room, the Circle of Memories, with eleven lanterns. The ardents believe that the lanterns represent the [[Silver Kingdoms]], with the last one marking the [[Tranquiline Halls]].{{book ref|sa2|i|12}}
In actuality, the room is the Kholinar [[Oathgate]] chamber, and the entire dais is the Oathgate platform.{{book ref|sa3|86}}
==== Beggars' Porch ====
The Beggars' Porch is a small patio in the back of the palace gardens, so named because the city's homeless often come there, hoping for some charity from the royal family. During the time between [[Evi]] and [[Gavilar]]'s deaths, [[Dalinar Kholin]] would visit it often to get alcohol from the beggars, as his family would hide it from him. It was also there that the [[Herald]] [[Jezrien]] could be found, under the nickname Ahu.{{book ref|sa3|88}} Whether the Porch still remains in this capacity after Gavilar's death is unclear.
==== The Catacombs ====
The catacombs are located in the depths of the palace. They can be reached through the eastern wing, by the same passage that leads into the kitchens and the Beggars' Porch.{{book ref|sa3|88}} It's a stone structure composed of long corridors, with a central chamber spacious enough to hold several dozen people, lit with real fires rather than spherelight. Funerals for the [[lighteyes]] of House Kholin take place there, and their bodies, [[Soulcast]] to stone, are placed upright along the walls of both the main chamber and the tunnels surrounding it.{{book ref|sa3|105}}{{book ref|sa3|63}}
== Palace Guard and Queen's Guard ==
== History ==
It is unclear when the palace was built
King Gavilar was
At some point after Navani left for the Shattered Plains, the palace came under the influence of the [[Unmade]] [[Ashertmarn]]. This caused the queen to begin acting increasingly erratically, throwing food away to rot, hosting excessively lavish parties and losing interest in ruling Alethkar. The situation came to a peak when ardent [[Pai]] was executed for publicly denouncing this new lifestyle, causing wide-spread riots in the city.{{book ref|sa3|i|12}}
After the riots, the queen recalled her guard into the palace, and appears to have fallen fully under the influence of both Ashertmarn and [[Yelig-
The strike team led by
== Notes ==
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