Rapa'rak Hall

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Rapa'rak Hall is an Historic House and estate on the outskirts of the village of Uryet, in the Golpur region of Krona homeworld Gunurash III.

It was built around 7500 B.E. by Non Rihat, half of the fraternally founded enterprise Rihat Farming. Non specialised in Rapasu Worm farming, with his estate surrounding Rapa'rak Hall situated to the North-West of Agog spanning the westernmost edge of the Golpur desert to the southern coast of the Gatza Sea. His older brother Kima, meanwhile, established a huge Tarak beetle farm on its north coast, where he built his own manor house, Tara'rak Hall. The estates eventually becoming the villages of Uryet and Shulyet, respectively.

Pyramid-like in shape, and made from white stone like many buildings in the region, the Hall was built as a manor house for the Uryet branch of the Rihat Family, and served as their home for many generations spanning many millennia of its life.

In 613 A.E. Nesa Rihat, son of Nas Rihat, newly appointed owner of the Hall and renowned eccentric, opened much of the mansion for public use as a museum and meeting place for community matters. In 616 A.E. the rival arm of the Rihat family based in Shulyet, contested ownership of the estate and the village banded together to hire one of Agog's most brilliant legal minds to come up with a solution before Nesa's family and the wider community were to suffer. Nesa subsequently emancipated himself and his family from any ties to the Rihat name, changing his and his children's surnames to that of his partner Lusha Drukula. He ensured that his will was watertight and it was legally mandated that the deeds to Rapa'ruk Hall and its surrounding land was never to belong to anyone bearing the Rihat name again. He sold much of the surrounding land to the government, and the livestock to local independent farmers, removing himself from all ties to his quarrelsome relatives.

Rapa'rak Hall is still inhabited by the Drukula family, with uninhabited areas open to the public for events, exhibitions and seasonal festivities. It currently belongs to Nesa's son, Nizu Drukula.