Couatl ruins dot the landscape of Sarlona, but none of them are home. A shulassakar that has been stationed in Krezent doesn’t view the fortress as their home. It is their posting, their job. While it may be a long time before they leave the fortress, their true home has and will always be waiting for them.
Within the depths of Khyber lies the home of the shulassakar, a demiplane that they call Hope’s Meridian. It was once a fiendish demiplane like any other, but a celestial that shares its name with the demiplane rallied the shulassakar after the creation of the Silver Flame, and with their help it drove the fiends from the demiplane.
Hope’s Meridian is where shulassakar are born, taught of their sacred duty, and train to eventually fulfil it. It is a beautiful place, where hanging gardens and terraces sit atop a mesa of gleaming songsilver, which gives way to an endless sky. Sparkling waterfalls pour gently from the top of the Meridian, irrigating terraces and gardens as it descends, before forming rainbow coloured mist as it drops into the ether below.
The shulassakar have mastered hydroponics, supporting vast raised farms that produce more than enough food to feed the entire population, both within the Meridian and in the fortress-ruins the shulassakar protect. These structures, gardens, and terraces form crown atop the mesa, all facing inwards towards an ancient temple in the centre.
This temple of stained glass and songsilver descends into the mesa and is called the Prismata. It is here that Veqtakatl, the Prismatic Choir, resides and spends much of its time. Surrounding the temple are fields of multicoloured flowers, interspersed with gathering places for the shulassakar of the Meridian.
The mesa itself was sung into existence by the celestial known as Hope, and it forms a prison that binds both the celestial and the original fiendish master of the demiplane. The Meridian never communicates directly with the shulassakar, as it requires all of its concentration to keep the fiend bound. The shulassakar never forget its sacrifice nor its mission, just as they can never forget their own divine purpose.
Veqtakatl, the Prismatic Choir
The shulassakar choir known as Veqtakatl is the leader of Hope’s Meridian, and arguably of all shulassakar. They have a profound connection to the Silver Flame and fill the same role to the shulassakar as the Keeper of the Flame does to the Church of the Silver Flame.
Veqtakatl has bound themselves to the Meridian, giving them unprecedented power over the demiplane. Veqtakatl can manifest new portals, and close ones that already exist. This is how the demiplane remains hidden from the fiends of Khyber. Only those that Veqtakatl wishes to find the Meridian can do so. Shulassakar can always find their way home, but occasionally Veqtakatl guides other wanderers to the demiplane, the only truly safe place in Khyber.
Veqtakatl is enormously powerful, even by the standards of a shulassakar choir. They are arguably the individual (if you could really call them that) with the closest connection to the Silver Flame on the Material Plane.