Sawa Ike
The Dark Matriarch Darth Shōjō
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a source of income on Atrisia
- Image Credit:
OldTokyo.com: Hotsprings Tea House - Amazing Pics: Japanese Hotsprings
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SETTING INFORMATION
- Structure Name: The iris Empress
- Classification: Tea House/Hot Springs
- Location: Atrisia
- Affiliation: Sawa Ike (secret) Midori Ike (public)
- Accessibility: Open to anyone but secluded near a mountain and surounded by water one three poiint five sides. THe natural hot springs that it is built on and around feed in place inot the rushing waters coming down the mountain. Snaking and giving it a semi isolated location on the side of the river and accessed by a bridge,
- Description: Secluded away in the mountains, the old building was built to give a private getaway for the emperor and empress. A place that was isolated and concealed within the mountains themselves. It is mostly rebuilt and changed from the old wooden walled building. Instead stone and metal framing with wooden plates. WIndows and small areas that can act as storage. The hot springs themselves as simple enough and from naturally formed pools that have been carved into the rock. With all fo the heat coming from them and covered with awnings. The tea house section of it is multi leveled with a sunken in section that is surrounded by a higher level. It lets others look down at the center. It is a simple design but leaves room for personal guards to be within the area but out of sight.
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SECURITY
Very Low
- House Guards
- Security Cameras
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Legendary but not exactly something that is able to be proven. The oldest stories of the house int he mountains that was built near hot springs and along the rush rivers coming out fo the polar regions. The partially iced over river that snakes around the mountain and through it cutting between the mountains and deeper down into underground rivers and streams. The first structure was simple a spa for a retreat.
The legends speak and what is told to add to it. That the Iris Empress and her consort. Something she was known for, a new one every night until she had found one who entertained her with tales for years giving her several children. She was so moved by the beauty of the hotsprings that she commissioned a tea house be built for herself and her family to go to in the summer when the heat was sweltering.
The tea house itself was built up and along the sections of the river where they could small rooms were made for guards and storage. Grounds and biodomes they have to grow and create a special brand of tea for the royal houses of Atrisia. The hot springs itself had been controlled and worked on, going into some parts of the mountains for more private ones that had been worked on. Expanded and made exclusive.
The name the Iris Empress was added later, changed to go with the story that was being told about the place. No one was exactly certain if this was really so famous. More it could have just been named with a story by someone a few thousand years later who could not protest. Her family not really caring about having a place that wanted to honor them. It added to the mystique of the region and could bring in people who spent credits which were collected as taxes.
The hot springs and tea house were eventually combined into a combined business and location. Being owned and operated by a holding company that was controlled secretly by Sawa after she assumed a new identity from her past. Midori was someone she knew with [member="Nine Lives"] from school. So it provided a source of income across the planet for Sawa that would be built to fund her reconstruction efforts on Atrisia.
