Palace of the Prophets

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The Palace of the Prophets is the residence of the Sisters of the Light. It is located on Halsbad Island, near the city of Tanimura. Here the Sisters train young wizards to use their gift.

The Palace of the Prophets has a bifurcated web placed around it, which causes those who live within it to age much slower than the average person. The web was placed by the wizards of long ago, who had the power of both Additive and Subtractive Magic. A person living at the Palace will age only one year for every ten or fifteen that passes outside the Palace. Wizard's Fire is banned on Halsband Island because of the Bifurcated Web.

Down in the vaults of the Palace, the Sisters of the Light store valuable books of prophecy and their they study them.

According to prophecy, the Palace of the Prophets would be a necessary loss for the prophetic pathway in the best interests of the world to be followed. Zedd, under Ann's direction, sets a Light Web down in the vaults of the Palace, but is unable to light it. Richard himself later does so and the Palace is destroyed.

After the destruction of the Palace of the Prophets, it is discovered that there is and always has been a central site burried underneath of it. It is here that the free Sisters of the Dark find the book; Chainfire.