Firmament 1502 — Glasswork Rose

Part of the glass here is shaped like a large rose flower. It is roughly 30 feet in diameter and 20 feet high. There is an incredible level of lifelike detail to it. When the sun shines on it, the light refracts into a beautiful series of rainbows. A full day of observation would reveal that the rose subtly moves to follow the movement of the sun across the sky, and closes slightly at night.

Pallas (she/her), a Devil formerly of Riccamino, lives here, a being that resembles a small human-legged fish with two large halves of oyster shell dangling from her back like vestigial wings. She has declared herself caretaker of the rose, a task she is devoted to. She will happily share stories of how she came to be here — over a century ago, she escaped Riccamino with a band of her kindred, many seeking a way to free even more from the ever-rising city. They were unfortunately scattered by various misfortunes before any plans could come to fruition. Pallas herself came to the firmament by the superstructure by ascending the cosmic miasma in 1110 after having sunk to the equivalent hex in the Gardens Below. She can explain the mechanism to do so.

Pallas suspects that one of the Spiderweb-Goddesses is responsible for the rose, though none will claim credit for it. She thinks of them as irresponsible for abandoning it.