> [!infobox|wikipedia] > # The Palisade Eternal > [![[Palisade_Eternal_small.webp|cover hsmall]]](Palisade_Eternal.webp) > ###### Location Information > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Type | Point of Interest | > Location | [[Sumara, The Shining City\|Sumara]] | > Defining Feature | Floating fortress-Nexus of the Circle of the Blade | > ###### Status > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Status | Active | The **Palisade Eternal** is the Nexus of the [[Circle of the Blade]], the floating citadel-heart of the Ironsward Canton in [[Sumara, The Shining City|Sumara]]. A squat fortress tower of dark grey stone crowned by a vertically mounted elven broadsword, it is the only one of the city's seven Nexuses built for war. ## Location & Geography The Palisade Eternal anchors the Ironsward Canton, on the mid-elevation western terraces of Sumara's caldera — the only Canton in the city with visible walls, its architecture strong, angular, and defensible. The citadel is a low, heavy tower of dark grey stone, its face dominated by a giant elven broadsword mounted point-down, its arrow slits glowing a faint red. Like all seven Nexuses, it can lift from its anchor and drift above the city, rising with its sister citadels to dock at the peak of the [[Royal Citadel]] whenever a [[Sumara, The Shining City#The Confluence of the Seven|Confluence]] is called. ## Seat of the Blade The Palisade Eternal is the military command of Sumara, the seat of the [[Circle of the Blade]] and its Meridian, Commander [[Kaelen Vayne]] — who, in the century-long absence of the royal line, has held the council's practical authority. From here the Circle trains the city's border guards, patrols the inner bridges, fields the [[Skyguard]], and keeps the old elven martial traditions alive.