The Dome of Scales
"A vast, broken dome soars over the jungle. Here, a fragment has fallen from the dome and embedded itself in the earth like a monolith. You step closer. It is a single scale of smoky jade, higher than you are tall. "In the dome's blue shadow, the jungle floor is littered with bones. Cat skulls are piled in staring mounds. The scattered vertebrae of serpents crunch underfoot."[1]
The Dome of Scales is a contested landmark in Parabola.
A Key Battleground
The exact features of this enormous jade dome[2][3] shift depending on who is controlling it.[3][4][5] Under the control of the Fingerkings, its peak is crowned by the golden coils of an especially giant dream-serpent;[3] under the control of the Cats, it is adorned by a pair of bronze gates engraved with various feline feats;[4] and under the control of the Red-Handed Queen, most dramatically, the Dome's surface is adorned with rubies and the area around it is transformed from soil and vegetation to silk and velvet. The only constant is that the Skin of the Sun hangs in the sky above it.
Although the scales of the Dome denote it as a construction of the Fingerkings,[2] within the Dome, through the aforementioned bronze gates, is the entrance to the Palatinate of Cats - a grand estate that the cats fight to control.[4]
