The Skill and The Wit (spoilers all RotE books)

[Farseer]

Ok, I was reading an old post of mine tonight (different thread), where I talked about the Star Chamber and, since I knew it had a connection with Time's Labyrinth, I went for a search...here's what the passage in Dragon Keeper had to say about them both:

I don't now if this is needed but Dragon Keeper Spoiler

WARNING! CONTAINS HIGH LEVELS OF ELFBARK

Sintara is telling Thymara, "And so Cassarick had chambers capable of welcoming the dragons that came to tend the cases. There was the Star Chamber, roofed with glass panels. From there the Elderlings were wont to study the night sky. The walls of the long entry to the Star Chamber were decorated with a mosaic of jewels that held a light of their own. No windows were built in that hall so that visitors might more easliy view the vista that the jewel artists had painted with their tiny dots of light. I recall there was an amusement that the humans had built for themselves, a maze with crystal walls. Time's Labyrinth they called it. It was all trickery and foolishness, of course, but they seemed fond of it."

Totally off topic but after posting on this new thread The Circle of Magic (thread contains spoilers for all RotE books), I was instantly drawn to the word "crystal" and wondered "Could the crystal walls have been used for scrying?"!

On topic, a bit of a different spin on my "ceiling of stars" but still star-related nonetheless !