The Platinum Throne

The Platinum Throne is a massive high-backed seat, carved from the black heartwood of the Ironspine Cedars—trees now extinct. Its imposing frame rises like a jagged crown, each armrest carved into the snarling heads of an ice bear -- creatures no longer seen beneath the Gray Mantle Mountains.

From base to crest, platinum filigree twists and coils, tracing words in ancient Vyrum. The inlays gleam cold and pure, immune to rust and untouched by time, glinting like moonlight even when the Hall is dim. Along the seat’s back, a wide sunburst medallion of platinum displays the sigil of a forgotten House, but now taken to mean the new day that dawned with Fergus the First. 

The seat itself is padded in a storm grey hide from a creature unremembered, though rumored to be dire wolf.  Fifty-five Platinum studs dot the leather, each one hammered in during the coronation of a new High King.

The Throne rests upon a block of flawless white onyx, its surface smooth as frozen water, its pale body veined with subtle currents of grey and pearl. By torchlight it gleams like hoarfrost, and in the morning sun it glows as if clouds had been trapped in stone. None now know from where it was quarried it, though the rumors say it was hewn from the mountains at the top of the world, where it is too cold for any man to remain and where the daylight lasts for an entire year.

The Platinum Throne was a gift of the Lod People (an ancient and diminutive race far to the North) who visited Fergus the First on the occasion of his coronation.