Pentuyi Memorial Gardens

The Pentuyi Memorial Gardens were a sprawling garden complex located in Besraael, the capital city of the planet Yin in the.

History
The Gardens were dedicated over a thousand years before the, and remain largely unchanged after that time. Yin's native Vuuls, consummate planners and perfectionists, spent nearly a century planning and refining the concept of the Gardens. Construction began at last in 1,052 ABY and was completed seven years later.

Many prominent Vuul philosophers and politicians enjoyed the Gardens, wandering through and contemplating art and architecture, and the Gardens were a perennial source of inspiration to Vuul artists (and later alien artists, once Yin made contact with Iscandar and later joined the Golden Empire). The Vuul philosopher Opou Komaye dedicated much of his life to wandering the Gardens. The funeral of Eskol Kaartinen, second Prefect of the Order of Keltrayu, was held in the Gardens in late 157 ABY.

Design
The Vuuls who worked on the Gardens took painstaking care to diversify its features while ensuring each section blended smoothly into the next without jarring observers out of thoughtful contemplation. The entire space of the Gardens took up ten square kilometers, and was surrounded by a border wall. Many sections included geometric designs of grass set around stone or marbles walkways and paths; the largest open space was hundreds of meters long and wide, while the smallest was only barely passable by a normal-sized Vuul.

A variety of trees and flowers from all over Yin were planted in the Gardens; many of the trees were arranged in s, while others were free-standing or grouped in other ways. Among the other features included in the Gardens were:
 * The Grand Parterre, an open with a wide circle of stone in the center.  Before his funeral, Eskol Kaartinen  in the Grand Parterre, and the public was allowed to
 * A . Because the Vuuls were exceptional at long-term planning but could be confused by quick shifts in strategy, the ha-ha wall was included to impress upon viewers the importance of awareness of all possibilities without taking anything for granted.
 * A with 1,304 possible wrong combinations and one correct one.
 * A 100-meter-long, as well as several smaller reflecting pools at strategic locations, which were intended to compel the viewer to consider differently the natural features array arounded them.
 * A long memorial . Rather than allow future generations to add columns to honor Vuuls and throw their design into disarray, the architects elected instead to install exactly eighty-four columns, going up a staircase and proceeding toward the Grand Parterre, and let history decide which eighty-four Vuuls were worthy.  Leery of choosing those who, though of consequence in life, would seem less important in the grand scheme, the curators of the Gardens had only chosen eleven beings over the following eleven centuries.  Eskol Kaartinen became the twelfth after his death in 157 ABY.
 * A opening on one of the most architecturally and herbologically diverse areas of the Gardens.  Viewers were often inspired to advance slowly, appreciating the chance in what they could see with each step forward and how it affected their perception of the park beyond.
 * Several artificial waterfalls, including at least one which began with an.
 * A number of s, most constructed with wooden or stone latticework but a few carefully engineered with sturdy plants. The Pergola of the Seasons featured flowers which bloomed in different colors throughout the year.
 * A variety of statues and s interspersed through the garden, some in plain sight and others all but hidden from view.
 * Several pools and flowing streams.

Behind the scenes
Many of the elements of the Pentuyi Memorial Gardens were inspired by s, and in particular the at the.