Pinnacle

Pinnacle
by Isaac Stewart
Owner	Elhokar Kholin
Usage	Palace
City	Alethi warcamps
Region	The Shattered Plains
World	Roshar
Universe	Cosmere

This article is about the building. For the ferring power, see Electrum#Feruchemical Use.

“ The palace was both finer and more mundane than she might have expected. ”

— Shallan

The Pinnacle is King Elhokar Kholin's palace on the Shattered Plains.

Layout

The Pinnacle stands on a hill above all other camps, about an hour's march from the Kholin warcamp. It's surrounded by a sheer drop about a hundred feet tall. One road leds to the main entrance, while a smaller sire route goes down to the stables at the feet of the hill. The Feasting Basin likewise sits beneath the palace, with a short climb between it and the Pinnacle gates. There is also a market nearby.

The palace is made of sculpted, Soulcast stone. A broad gateway leads inside, though there is also a back entrance atop a flight of steps. Within, the Pinnacle has several floors with vast, cavernous halls, and numerous floors serving different purposes. Large part of it is is cut straight into the rock of the hill, with windows cut out facing leeward. There are shutters on the windows to keep them closed during bad weather, though they tend to rattle and leak.

The Alethi warcamps, with the Pinnacle visible in top right.

Notable rooms

The Gallery of Maps

The Gallery of Maps, as its name implies, houses numerous maps of both the world and the local area, as well as the list of highprinces and the number of gemhearts they have won. It's a long room covered in a stretched dome, with large skylights shining down upon formations of shalebark.

The conference chamber

The king's conference chamber is located on one of the Pinnacle's topmost floors. The king and his family spend the highstorms there, while Dalinar is tied up for the duration of his visions. During working hours, the strategy and politics meetings between the king and his highprinces take place there.

The kitchens

The kitchens, where the food is prepared, are located near the bottom of the palace, perhaps on the ground floor. The back entrance into the Pinnacle leads there.

The king's quarters

The set of rooms were Elhokar lives. There is small balcony there facing towards the Origin, allowing the king to observe the Shattered Plains. It's well-known to be Elhokar's favourite spot in the palace.

History

The palace has been constructed by the royal Soulcasters sometime early on during the War of Reckoning. Elhokar eventually dubbed it the Pinnacle, and the name stuck.

During its existence, the place served as Elhokar's home, as well as the place where strategy and planning meetings were conducted, making it effectively the centre of Alethi government. In addition, the Pinnacle saw several failed attempts to assassinate the king - once by the Diagram, through a sliced railing in the royal quarters, once by the Assassin in White, and once directly by Moash and Graves. Following that last attempt, Kaladin temporarily relocated Elhokar to Little Herdaz.

After the Battle of Narak, most Alethi relocated to Urithiru. As with the other structures, the Pinnacle was all but abandoned.

Notes

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