Convocation of Law

"[S]he imagined some gigantic being growing a pyramid plant, with several little fences around it so no critters came to dig it up before it grew its peak."

- Jinyx Windrunner's thoughts upon seeing the Convocation of Law

The Convocation of Law was a building on Toriafas in the Capital District. It was the administrative headquarters and meeting place of the Governing Judges of the Exoi Kritocracy.

The building was designed as a pyramid, but with a flat summit rather than a point. It was surrounded by columns erected to honor each world of the Kritocracy; it eventually had 896 of them. No column was ever torn down, even as the Kritocracy lost worlds, and so the Convocation was surrounded by a forest of columns like a ring of fences.

The Governing Judges met in a chamber in the Convocation, with one seat for each Governing Judge. The seats were arranged in circular tiers like a stadium, with more on each level than the one below. The oldest Kritocracy worlds occupied the seats closest to the floor, with the Governing Judge of Toriafas seated in the center of the lowest row. Litigants or government officers stood on a dais in the center of the room to address the Governing Judges.

After the Exoi Kritocracy was dissolved in 155 ABY, the columns outside the Convocation were removed to a museum elsewhere, while the Convocation itself was repurposed as a central court building for Toriafas.

Appearances

 * The Final Judgment