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Around Kredik Shaw the grounds are wide and open, nothing but a flat space paved with cobblestones surrounds it. There is no outer wall around the complex, neither tree or foliage nor any building close to distract one's eyes from the disturbing architecture.{{book ref|mb1|14}}
Notably, the entire palace represent the
In Luthadel, and especially in the slums, there are many central soup kitchens. These soup kitchens usually are funded by local lords or nobles who own a forge or mill, to avoid the costs of having to provide meals on site for their workers. Skaa earn meal tokens for the time they work, and in their short break at midday they can spend these tokens for a meal. However, because the kitchen owners are paid directly, they save as much as possible on ingredients and cleaning, resulting in food about as tasty as ashwater.{{book ref|mb1|10}} Clean drinking water is retrieved from wells all around the city.{{book ref|mb2|42}} In the brief times while skaa are free from labor most of them live in overly packed tenements.{{book ref|mb1|24}}
A lot of effort is required to keep
Occasionally executions take place at the Fountain Square. Most often a recently caught thieving crew gets executed, but sometimes innocent skaa as well, as examples that entire population is subject to the whims of the Lord Ruler. When the bells ring all men in the city are required to attend the executions or else the punishment is death. Bleachers are set up for the noblemen, but most skaa need to stand in the surrounding streets because the Fountain Square is not large enough for this huge amount of people. The executions can go on for hours, and afterwards the corpses are just left at the fountains.{{book ref|mb1|26}}{{book ref|mb1|27}}
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