Chapter 483 - Night Before Ascension

The Great Banquet Hall of the Lumia Keep was usually a austere, military space stripped of ostentation. Since the onset of the corruption threats, the tapestries had been pulled down to make way for reinforced iron sconces, and long, plain pine tables had replaced the gilded mahogany of peacetime. Tonight, however, the air inside the grand hall hummed with a golden, triumphant warmth that the capital had not felt in years.