The origin point, ancestral home and throne world of the Empire of the Queil. Once a verdant paradise, the surface of Quen was long ago desertified by centuries of infighting among rival Queil dynasties, a status quo encouraged by previous Queil Emperors to ensure their own position remained secure. As these warring houses took their squabbles to the stars, Quen’s former beauty was largely forgotten, except in rhetoric and propaganda. Only under the current Empress, Elethara Harke, has the planet become hospitable to life once more, as Queil terraforming projects have seeded a vast equatorial jungle and are currently working to detoxify the planet’s ice caps.
Quen’s most notable landmark is the Fortress Imperial, a hovering metropolis which holds the royal court, a substantial military garrison and a number of civilian districts aloft, miles above the planet’s surface. From the heart of the Fortress, Empress Harke oversees all of Queil territory, and receives dignitaries from across the galaxy.
Despite its forbidding name, the Fortress is remarkably elegant in its design, with gardens, monuments and public attractions integrated into the structure from its first iteration. Though many architects and engineers have left their mark on the Fortress Imperial since, all of them have shared a common vision: to leave behind any reminder of the brutal Age of Inharmony which once wracked the planet below.
Though Quen is heavily patrolled by multiple Queil military divisions, tourists from outside the Empire are still welcome during peacetime. Sadly, that freedom has recently been revoked.
SEE ALSO:
Supreme Architect Tar Tirath [Personality]
The Dovecote [District]
Age of Inharmony [Event]
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