Ellyr-Charoi

Ellyr-Charoi is the great villa of the Éadaoin family within the High Elf kingdom of Ellyrion. It is noted that in the early afternoon, sunlight reflects from both gemstones set within its walls and the coloured glass that fills the high windows of its many azure-capped towers. Built around a central courtyard, the architecture was designed to render it as much a part of the landscape as the natural features that surround it. Its builders employed the natural topography in its design so that the villa appeared to have arisen naturally from its surroundings rather than from the artifice of craftsmen.

Set amid a wide stand of trees, the villa is bounded on two sides by a pair of foaming white waterfalls that have their origin high on the eastern slopes of the Annulii Mountains. The water of both joins beyond the villa to a wide river that glitters on the horizon. An overgrown pathway leads from the gates of the villa to a sweeping bridge of arched timbres that curves over the rushing waters and follows the course all the way to Tor Elyr.

Once, a portion of the waterfalls had been channelled down grooves fashioned into the sides of the Hippocrene Tower, the villa's tallest tower. From there, it fed the fountain at the centre of the Summer Courtyard, filling the cascading marble and bowls of silver. From the top of the Tower, where Lord Eldain Éadaoin dwells, one can hear everything going on in the Summer Courtyard bellow, long before they begin climbing the staircase that curled up the tower.

Source

 * : Defenders of Ulthuan by Graham McNeill
 * : Chapter 1