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==== The Theater ====
A room resembling a theater can be found on the tower's third level, near the Breakaway. It's a large chamber with round walls and rows of stone benches facing a raised platform that served as a stage. This stage can be reached both by stairs from the audience and by a separate entrance. The corridor leading to it is narrow enough to be touched on both sides, and goes by several smaller chambers, possibly dressing rooms. Past the theater's back door (the one which would be, presumably, used by the audience), there is a circular room with large vertical slits in the walls, some of which face Breakaway, although neither it, nor the theater itself can be reached directly from the market. It is there that [[Shallan]] puts on a [[Lightweaving Surgebinding#Illumination|Lightwoven]] play of [[The Girl Who Looked Up]] for [[Pattern]], and where they first encounter [[Re-Shephir]].{{book ref|sa3|25}}
 
[[File:Midnight Mother 1.jpg|thumb|right|250px|<center><small>by {{a|DNAVENOM}}</small></center> [[Shallan]] fighting [[Re-Shephir]] in her chamber]]
Urithiru was constructed at some point early on during the [[Silver Kingdoms]] era.{{ref|text=[[Nohadon]], who lived before the Knights Radiant were founded, visited it, so it had to be fairly early on.}} Initially, many wished for it to be constructed in [[Alethela]]; however, it was eventually built elsewhere, in a place considered to be "closest to Honor".{{epigraph ref|sa1|35}} It's unclear whether it was created by [[Herald]]s, [[Surgebinder]]s or [[Shard]]s themselves.
 
Though it's unclear whether it was originally built for this purpose, Urithiru was the headquarters of the [[Knights Radiant]] orders, as well as the center of the [[Silver Kingdoms]], holding ten thrones, one for each king. Even following the temporary end of the cycle of [[Desolation]]s, it remained an important location as both the home of the Radiants and the [[Oathgate]] hub.{{epigraph ref|sa1|46}} During that time, Urithiru had a large population of not only Radiants, but also ordinary people - servants, traders, craftsmen and so on.{{epigraph ref|sa3|72}} At one point, the [[Unmade]] [[Re-Shephir]] invaded the tower, and was trapped and sealed by an unknown [[Order of Lightweavers|Lightweaver]].{{book ref|sa3|29}}
 
Eventually, the unknown systems that allowed people to inhabit Urithiru - most importantly, raising its temperature to allow people to live comfortably and grow foods - began to fail for unclear reasons.{{epigraph ref|sa3|69}} This forced the Knights Radiant to abandon the tower, leaving behind only the [[Urithiru gem archive|gem archive]] where they coded their last messages.{{epigraph ref|sa3|65}}{{epigraph ref|sa3|61}}

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