Magnificient Tea House

This is one of the most splendorous buildings in all of Palanquin, and could easily be mistaken for a Dynast's opulent castle-mansion. Built in an old style with many additions on it, it is a eight story building, with beautiful golden ornamentation, and tales of the lives of each previous owner upon the outer walls. Originally a single floor house that was much smaller, it has over the year purchased its neighboring land, and then when neighbors stopped selling - due to how renowned the tea house was - they began building upwards.

Busy at all hours of the day, the Magnificient is known to have wait staff and fresh tea from sun up... until sun up, only closing for longer than a few hours on Calibration - though it does close down during religious ceremonies. The staff all live within the building, upon the seventh and eighth floors, which are closed from public, and rotate throughout the day. Those who are servers are almost all young men and women with fetching features, beautiful in their own ways - and as diverse as could be found in any place.

Easily seating a hundred people on only the first floor, were it to fill to capacity it would contain a small army, it is however known for its ease of rendering large rooms into much smaller, more private ones, via collapsible walls - as well as the ability to rent out entire floors for private occasions, usually only the ground floor open for non-booked parties. The sixth floor is renowned as the 'shrine floor', and has only been used a handful of times since its erection - it is the most exclusive of floors, and only seats Gods. The floor below it is known as the Dragon's Nest, and is a more openly opulent floor - which invited Dynasts, Dragonblooded, and their families only. They have little to complain about, with the Dragon's Nest being much more obviously filled with wealth and beautiful decor.

It is widely spoken of as the greatest tea house outside of the Imperial City, and more quietly spoken of as being as good as the greatest of Imperial tea houses, something that the proprietor Magnificient Lotus Blossom quietly encourages. Their selection ranges from local favorites, to those from across the Dreaming Sea - and even some brews shipped all the way from Southern cities, Western Isles, and the Blessed Isle itself.

The staff of the Tea House is known, quite publicly, to be made up entirely of freed slaves, barring Lotus Blossom herself. Each and every one of them purchased from slave traders, and then given a choice to stay or leave, those who stayed trained in the workings of the Tea House. Magnificent Lotus Blossom and her father, Magnificent Laurel, made no attempts to hide that this is what they were doing, and thus have more than a few - especially among mainland Ysyr - who view them as eccentrics. Still, the staff is finely trained, loyal to a fault, and little can be complained about in their mannerisms.

The most notable bouncer of the tea house is Child of Flashing Steel, a God Blooded martial artist descended who follows the tenants of the Single Point Martial Art. She is known to be quite the quick draw, and quite strict with troublemakers in the establishment. She mostly works nights, though it's said that she has an almost eeriee ability to always know when trouble is happening in her tea house.