Palace Healing House
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Primarily for Kate, but might be of interest to the rest of you as well. This is the palace healing house, where Yamin works.
Sorry for the crappy scan quality. I was going to ink these but couldn't be screwed >>
Anyway, there's the basic map of the healing house. Big round room with four smaller rooms, closed off to the side with canvas doors, for the people on their death beds. The little plants in the corners of those rooms are gemili lina, the flower of life. It makes the patient feel better about things, even tho the healers themselves know the plant does bugger-all.
In the big room, there are cupboards around every wall with stone benches, and water basins inlaid into the ones up the back. The water they get from the little pond out the back, which is filled when it needs to be by the palace staff. Another random kinda curvy bench up the back which is generally where 'min works from, so she can keep an eye on what's going on. Couple more gemili lina plants off to the side for that feel good vibe, and of course the bed blocks, which are literally just blocks of stone for the patients to sit/lie on while they're being tended to. It's easier to wipe one of them down than to send off sheets and whatever to the launders every time someone knew sits on them X3
The shelf down the bottom left is where all the bottles of antidotes and medicines and components for them are kept, and of course all the healers there know exactly where everything is. Bloody intimidating to the poor trainees tho X3 Six or seven shelves filled with hundreds of little bottles, all carefully labelled and with its own special spot on the shelf. Poor girls need a chair to get to the top shelf XD 'cept Ramnaré, but she's desert, so she's got the height advantage X3
So you walk in the front door, and this is pretty much what you see up the back. Only without the curvy bench cos I only remembered to put that there on the floor plan. Oops. Use your imagination >>;; But yeah~ that's the inside of the healing house. There's one shelf that runs around the whole place, just above the doors, that's stocked with nice fresh-smelling herbs, rarely ever actually used since they're a bit to high up to reach without climbing on the benches. The herbs they actually use are in the garden out the back, and the really well-used ones are on the shelf just above the bench, along with commonly needed antidotes and pain killers. Like 'min's hangover cure X3
Outside's pretty self-explanitory. Couple more gemili lina, the nationally recognised plant of the healing houses, and wavy green line all around the place. The walls, inside and out, are all whitewashed, same with every healing house, so they're easily recognised among the uniform red of the rest of Raykin's buildings.
Windows are just slitty little things up around the ceiling--another Raykinian thing. Lets plenty of light in, but keeps the heat out.
And~ that's about it. Fifty women work at the palace healing house, making it the biggest in the kingdom, but there are only ever five or six on at any one time. Yamin can, of course, call in as many as she needs though.
Sorry for the crappy scan quality. I was going to ink these but couldn't be screwed >>
Anyway, there's the basic map of the healing house. Big round room with four smaller rooms, closed off to the side with canvas doors, for the people on their death beds. The little plants in the corners of those rooms are gemili lina, the flower of life. It makes the patient feel better about things, even tho the healers themselves know the plant does bugger-all.
In the big room, there are cupboards around every wall with stone benches, and water basins inlaid into the ones up the back. The water they get from the little pond out the back, which is filled when it needs to be by the palace staff. Another random kinda curvy bench up the back which is generally where 'min works from, so she can keep an eye on what's going on. Couple more gemili lina plants off to the side for that feel good vibe, and of course the bed blocks, which are literally just blocks of stone for the patients to sit/lie on while they're being tended to. It's easier to wipe one of them down than to send off sheets and whatever to the launders every time someone knew sits on them X3
The shelf down the bottom left is where all the bottles of antidotes and medicines and components for them are kept, and of course all the healers there know exactly where everything is. Bloody intimidating to the poor trainees tho X3 Six or seven shelves filled with hundreds of little bottles, all carefully labelled and with its own special spot on the shelf. Poor girls need a chair to get to the top shelf XD 'cept Ramnaré, but she's desert, so she's got the height advantage X3
So you walk in the front door, and this is pretty much what you see up the back. Only without the curvy bench cos I only remembered to put that there on the floor plan. Oops. Use your imagination >>;; But yeah~ that's the inside of the healing house. There's one shelf that runs around the whole place, just above the doors, that's stocked with nice fresh-smelling herbs, rarely ever actually used since they're a bit to high up to reach without climbing on the benches. The herbs they actually use are in the garden out the back, and the really well-used ones are on the shelf just above the bench, along with commonly needed antidotes and pain killers. Like 'min's hangover cure X3
Outside's pretty self-explanitory. Couple more gemili lina, the nationally recognised plant of the healing houses, and wavy green line all around the place. The walls, inside and out, are all whitewashed, same with every healing house, so they're easily recognised among the uniform red of the rest of Raykin's buildings.
Windows are just slitty little things up around the ceiling--another Raykinian thing. Lets plenty of light in, but keeps the heat out.
And~ that's about it. Fifty women work at the palace healing house, making it the biggest in the kingdom, but there are only ever five or six on at any one time. Yamin can, of course, call in as many as she needs though.