Meanwhile, a package arrives from Idrian Sepulki, who sent Master Kastora's destroyed phoenix channel prototype to the hotel for Demir to study. As he leaves the crypt, he finds Baby Montego has arrived at the hotel, so he orders Breenen to set up a suite for his adopted brother next to his own and offer him every service and comfort available. Adriana does not yet have a bust, but Demir visits her ashes and talks aloud to them about his childhood before asking his father's bust to take care of her and leaves. He then goes to the hotel garden, passing the old glassworks to the family mausoleum where he descends the purple and white marble staircase finds the marble busts of every guild-family matriarch or patriarch for the last thirty generations. Demir's own falcon died when he was young, so the mews had been abandoned until then. She tries to bargain for her freedom, saying Adriana Grappo at the Hyacinth Hotel will pay her ransom, but the soldiers simply tell her Adriana is dead, and they send Thessa to the Ivory Forest Glassworks instead.Īfter Demir returns from the Grent Royal Glassworks, he puts Thessa's falcon Ekhi into the hotel's stateroom-sized mews. Thessa tries to make her way to Ossa but is captured on the road at Ossan military roadblock. He says he will meet her there later, but he dies before he can leave the glassworks.
He asks Breenen if the hotel has ever become haunted in the nine years of his absence, but the majordomo asks if he is being serious.ĭuring the attack at the Grent Royal Glassworks, Master Kastora tells Thessa Foleer to take his phoenix channel schematics to Adriana Grappo at the Hyacinth Hotel, not realizing that Adriana had already been murdered.
While looking around, Demir spots the monstrous face of a Yuglid through one of the windows, though he believes the nightmarish face to be only a trick of his mind due to stress. However, Breenen Alvari gives him a secret death journal written by his mother which contains ledgers and a note that explains he is now owner of the hotel. Demir studies his mother's suites, realizing that all of her papers had been confiscated by the Cinders after her murder. He does not recognize any of its current staff and skirts around them until he is stopped by Tirana Kirkovik, who does not recognize him at first. When Demir Grappo returns from his self-imposed exile in the provinces, he goes straight to the Hyacinth Hotel to take over its management. Demir believes it stands as a testament to power the Grappo guild-family used to enjoy generations ago, though the Hyacinth Hotel is all that remains of that wealth and prestige. The hotel also employs dozens of porters, bellboys, waiters, maids, and enforcers. Tirana Kirkovik serves as the hotel's master-at-arms. The hotel's concierge is Breenen Alvari, who also serves as the Grappo guild-family's majordomo. The hotel grounds also include a restaurant, a hotel garden, a large mews, some stables, an old glassworks, a gymnasium, and the family mausoleum, which is carved with the faces of the Grappo family founders.Īdriana Grappo always preferred to treat the building as a hotel rather than a guild-family mansion, keeping the security light for the comfort of the guests.
Inside, the hotel is furnished with crimson carpets, marble staircases, white walls with purple accents, and gold leaf door latches. Its façade is adorned with golden gargoyles, immense hammerglass windows, purple drapes embroidered with the Grappo silic sigil, an immense marble staircase, and massive double doors. It is a magnificent four-story granite structure that sits in an enviable piece of real estate in the Assembly District. The Hyacinth Hotel is the Grappo guild-family's most important holding in Ossa, serving as both a hotel and the guild-family mansion.
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