I have to tell you all that my gram and spelling might not be the best, so I hope you can live with it and still understand the basic idea. The member of the thread is free to make thread that have a connection to this one, just make sure you send me the link with a pm and that you name the thread Imperial Intrigues and then whatever name you want it to have after.<br/><br/>Example: Imperial Intrigues, The Palace garden<br/><br/><br/>It had been five years since the former emperor passed away and left the kingdom in chaos, they had enemies everywhere and the people was suffering. Hunger and Strife was seen and heard of in all parts of the kingdom, even talk about dark magic could be rumored about from a secret gathering in the south. But with the tyrants death things changed for the better, his only son Tai Shun ascended to the throne and became the new emperor. The first things the young man did was to make sure peace came to the lands by inviting all the leaders from the other kingdoms to his palace for negotiations. After this it was a glorious victory and the war ended, the lands could once again be at peace and Tai released all prisoners from the war to there families. He was not going to be a tyrant that ruled thought fear and hate, but one ruling with strict but gentle hand. After this he moved the focus to his own people and used much gold from the royal vault in order to regain stability among his people, lowering the rathes of death by a large number.<br/><br/>Something the new emperor had learned from the fathers mistake was that a people in pain is a bad people, his father became so paranoid in the end that he close to never even left his chambers. Put trust in the people and treat them as they should be treated, a ruler is never anything without his subjects. Tai proved that he cared much for the wellbeing of the kingdom, but that did not go so far as that he banished slavery from the land. He was powerful, but not even he could remove that as it was a foundation to the land. But something he could forbid was to enslave people inside of his kingdom, then how people got there slaves otherwise was not his business.<br/><br/><strong>The festival</strong><br/>Now it is as said five years ago since the dark times ended and the land came into a new era, on this very day is a massive festival thrown thought the kingdom and a feast unlike anything is being held at the palace itself. But only a selected few gets to have dinner with the emperor himself this evening, those with royal blood or the once he himself selected for the festival.<br/><br/><strong>The Throne chamber</strong><br/>The parties and royal dinners is being held inside of the throne chamber, along with important meetings and affairs. It is a large chamber with impressive decorations, flowers, statues and paintings. At the far ends stands a impressive throne surrounded by soft pillows, the throne is for the emperor and the pillows for his slaves and pets. During formal dinners a large table is going from the throne thought the entire room to give a place to eat for important guests, while during more casual parties people regularly just eat where they feel like eating. To make it easier smaller tabled can be gathered from other rooms for guests to put the plates on. Only a selected few are invited to this part of the palace during events, but there can be many more guests outside in the larger halls and Tai always takes a walk to greet his guests and wish them a good evening and a great party. For his own amusement he can at times throw a small contest among the lesser guests to get seats to dine with him and his family. The most hilarious thing was when a young farmer became the winner, not that Tai minded it was after all a part of the deal and he was not one to go back on his words.<br/><br/><strong>Royal chambers</strong><br/>Connected with a corridor from the throne chamber is the royal chamber, this is where Tai sleeps and makes himself ready for everything an emperor have to do. It is a large circular chamber with large door going out to a large balcony with the wive of the entire kingdom. The furniture is a large king sized bed, a door going into a wardrobe with all kinds of outfits for both party and business. Piles of pillows can be seen around the room since the emperor sometimes have a habit to not get to the bed before the action starts, just something he did to be on the safe side to avoid getting bruises.  A larger doorway leads into the bathroom where the emperor has his royal bathtube, it is a large contruction made out of white marble lowered down into the floor. Soft towels is hanging from one of the walls and right next to them jars with scented oils and parfumes to give a fresh smell to the water. It takes time to fill this tube so Tai always starts to make it ready a few hours before he actually is going to take the bath.<br/><br/><strong>The Room of the Minister</strong><br/><em>Doomsday will get the honor to pick his own room. ^_^</em><br/><br/><strong>The Guest quarters</strong><br/>Important guests and visitors at the palace is of course more then welcome to stay at the palace during there time there, it have a large amount of different questrooms. Everything from smaller once to large luxurious one with there own bathrooms. The more important you are the better is your quarters for the evenings. No one ever said the emperor was not a good host.<br/><br/><em>Other places will and shall be added as we play along, but for now we have these once to be in. Also going to try and make it separate threads to make it less complicated</em><br/><br/><strong>The game begins!</strong><br/><br/>It had been taking all day for the servants to make things ready for the evenings feast, the celebration to the end of the dark times was at hand and the  joy of many could be sensed in the air as the chef prepared the meals and the decorators changed the flower in the different vases. But now finally things was going to come to fruition and the guests had arrived from all parts of the kingdom. Music was going to be played until late at night and wine of the best kind was being served to all guests. It was not much different in the more common chambers compaired to the royal once, apart from the fact that his royal highness, emperor Tai Shun was having his dinner in the royal halls.<br/><br/>The ruler was without a doubt a very impressive man and he had the looks of his father, the only thing he said that he got from the old man that was not trouble. With the dark hair and the piercing eyes he was a real emperor thought and thought. No one could deny that he was not of royal blood, no one would even dare to suggest such a thing. But despite all this the man was dressed in a fairly simple outfit in a calm blue color, he was among family so he did not feel the need to dress like he was going out to show himself in public. He sat casually with one leg over the armrest of the throne and a golden goblet with wine standing on a small table right next to the throne, along with a bowl with random fruit and a plate with meat. There was no large table and just smaller once scattered around the chamber for the guests to use as they saw fit.<br/><br/>It was a time to relax and he had ever arranged for a firework to be fired at midnight from the lake next to the castle, that was a surprise and just a few knew about it. That being himself and the man he gave the mission, not even his most trusted friends knew about it yet. The very thought on the face of everyone when they saw it made Tai smile even now. But that would have to wait, he glanced around the room and back towards the door going to his royal chambers, he was waiting for Ethan to come. The boy did not seem to be ready yet, but Tai was a man that could wait, he just longed to feel the young mans head against his knees and hear his voice. A true pleasure for the ear, maybe he would ask the boy to sing for them this evening? He would not deny Tai the pleasure to hear his voice in song, not a chance and the emperor knew this.<br/><br/><strong>"Now where is that little boy, I bet he is doing this to tease me. Well I better teach him a small lesson about coming on time when it is time for bed"</strong>he purred out softly and grasped the goblet, the way he said the words was more playful then angry. He could not be angry and Ethan...unless the boy really did something to anger him. Well not that he did not have other things to pass the time with in this chamber, there was guests he had to be social with. Important guests that had to get his devoted attention.