Many moons had passed since the failed destruction of Ilion.
Though the way it had been destroyed so to speak was different than what had been envisioned, but destroyed it was.
Now the kingdom stood grander than before...
The children of Castellan flattened the land completely before painstakingly rebuilding it. The walls that Poseidôn and Apollôn and Αἰακός had carefully crafted had been brought down.
With a mixture of limestone, marble, and something that they called concrete, they rebuilt the walls and engraved images of the battles within them with the gods assisting. The images ended at the gates where Apollôn stood over Hektōr and Athênê over Ahkilles. And when what they called a portcullis closed, there sat Father Zeus on his golden throne and in his hands were his golden scales.
They built what a mouseion in which they dedicated to the Mousai alongside statues of Mnêmosynê and Hermês as the eleven of them were gods of knowledge, who remembered all things that had come to pass.
Though before reaching it or the city proper, one would have to go through a carefully constructed labyrinth with hidden pathways for warriors and citizens alike to hold off would be invaders; those pathways they built with the stones in which Poseidôn and Apollôn and Αἰακός used to build Troy's walls.
Watchtowers sat imposing top different "checkpoints" in which the pathways expanded into different locations... one would take to the palace, another to the agora, another to a memorial where the mouseion sat, one towards other passages that led to the homes and the last to the temples of the gods.
Of course each checkpoint was also dedicated to the gods with more adoration for those that sided with Troy in the invasion.
The memorial was centered around the mouseion though there was a section situated off to the side where a marker made from terracotta bricks sat with a list of the various warriors that lost their lives in the war. The names of the Argives that lost their lives also had their own marker with the words 'love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you' as the war could have lauded them as the victors and pray that the gods purify them all for the spilling of blood.
The paintings that Príamos had commissioned were placed in the mouseion alongside the crowns that he and Hekábē wore as the House of Príamos ended with the death of Aléxandros. The new kingdom found itself under the reign of Queen Ariadnê who would then go on to abdicate the throne to her dear friend Hektōr who forsook his lineage as the son of Príamos and completed an amfidromies to which he claims in front of the hearth that Ariadnê was the "mother" who took him in and integrating into the field of the Home and connected him with the Goddess Hestia, protector of the family.
And thus he was no longer, son of Príamos, but son of Ariadnê whose task would be to manage her kingdom as she had no natural son.
Perseus had laughed himself sick at the look on his sister's face when the siblings of Hektōr followed in his place and she thus acquired 18 daughters and 68 sons.
(Ariadnê then goes to point out her marriage to Hermês and thus, the kingdom's connection to Father Zeus is once more restored alongside the connection to the Pleiades as Maia is the sister to Êlektrê to whom they owed their race.)
The temple of the gods was just as grand as the one in Castellan. They were littered with mosaics and tapestries and paintings crafted by their oracle and the metaphysical child of Athênê. Standing more imposing than the others were temples dedicated to all six children of Rheia.
There were pathways hidden behind the temple of Dêmêtêr leading to several megara for those that wish to partake in the Mysteries.
They crafted a smaller building where items were sold to commemorate the visit. They were often textile squares with small quotes dedicated to the gods and some that could be customized to include names. The eldest son of Hermês had the daughter of Athênê weave words into one after he and the daughter of Dêmêtêr had visited the newly erected temple of Aphroditê.
