![]() ![]() Here the bride would await the groom at the foot of the steps leading to the throne. Through this long chamber E-Thas escorted her to the throne room which also was empty, the marriage ceremony in Manator differing from that of other countries of Barsoom. only in recent ages have been giving way slowly to the flat landing-stages of an aerial world'. The Hall was empty except for its ranks of dead chieftains upon their dead mounts. On Barsoom, native humans produced two main varieties of city, the ancient now-deserted kind and the new, walled, more practical kind - still splendid enough since 'the usual towers, domes and minarets that mark all Barsoomian cities. At the entrance to The Hall of Chiefs E-Thas, the major-domo, received her. Slowly Tara, surrounded by a heavy guard of honor, moved along the marble corridors filled with people. All the power and pride, wealth and beauty of Manator were there. The corridors were filled with slaves and warriors, and the women of the palace and the city who had been commanded to attend the ceremony. The glossy mass of her jet hair had been built into a coiffure of stately and becoming grandeur, into which diamond-headed pins were stuck until the whole scintillated as the stars in heaven upon a moonless night.īut it was a sullen and defiant bride that they led from the high tower toward the throne room of O-Tar. ![]() Her harness, all new and wrought for the occasion, was of the white hide of the great white apes of Barsoom, hung heavily with platinum and diamonds-fairly encrusted with them. First actual try at mapmaking and wanted to know if my maps make sense or just seem like a bunch of random shit put together (partially true). Body was anointed with the oil of pimalia blossoms and massaged by the deft fingers of a slave from distant Dusar.
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