You gaze into a large open chamber off the Great Hall. A raised floor extends from the western wall for the first twenty five or thirty feet, from which four large and uncomfortable looking stone chairs, bearing an uncanny resemblance to thrones, face the chamber and hall. Behind the chairs, a three-story heraldic tapestry and various flanking shields display unfamiliar coats of arms, many of which appear to predate or contradict normal heraldry.
Flanking either wall for the entire length of the chamber, large tables stand as if positioned for a formal state dinner, an intimate feast, or a friendly game... for, say, well over a hundred participants.
Drawings, paintings, sculptures, and photographs of many people, landscapes, and animals, some seemingly not of this earth, decorate the walls beneath the windows on either side of the hall.