Silvamar

Silvamar is the Upper Fourth estate of the The Periph Family, and their largest in Doramraz. It is located in the Southwestern corner of Upper Fourth, with a view of the sea to the south, and takes up much of the level in that building, including the entirety of the rooftop.

Gardens
Upon their arrival in the earlier days of Doramraz, the Periphs' ancestors longed for the natural expanses they had abandoned to live in this city of metal, coal, and steam. And so, as years went by, they painstakingly crafted on the rooftop of Silvamar a garden to surpass all others in the city. Masses of soil, to support the roots of the tall trees they hoped to grow, were brought up from the ground far below, and florae from all the world collected.

Now, over a century later, one could stand in the centre of the garden, and forget that one was in the heart of man's squalid stronghold against nature. The sun, here, was blocked out only by the surrounding trees; the quietude, when alone, broken only through the rustling of the leaves by the winds of air not besmirched by the grit of the city below. From here, one could imagine oneself in a beautiful countryside of a more pleasant age, before the inexorable march of progress forced men into the abominations they now lived in. Only Zenith, overshadowing the garden from the West as an opulent castle in the sky, could impinge on one's fantasy, a reminder of the Periphs' perpetual secondary nature in the scheme of things and the awesome dominance of the Mraz, and yet at the same time an illustration of the precarious state that is ever the curse of those in power, and that made the Periphs cherish their position.