An odd cluster of buildings, main entrance on Jeslstan Street, central Forgar. Built from plans drawn up by Stane Woolridge, though not finished till 1067, the Mayering Rooms comprise five three-story pentagonal buildings, themselves linked by passageways in hollow walls and arrange to form another pentagon. Each of the buildings is made from the pale brown sandstone carted from the coast, reinforced at each corner by the blackish Brown Hills limestone; the building at the front has been magically shot through by jade, creating an intricate pattern of green veins. Each building is also topped off by a domed roof, copper originally but since replaced by stone. The interjoining walls are also curved at the top, with the more familiar carved stone arches. At the centre of the complex is a small enclosed garden.
The Mayering Rooms are the Christotan government's financial centre, fulfilling various functions. The rear building, much expanded and modified (completely ruining the symmetry of Woolridge's plans) serves as the central mint, plus a storage house for coins waiting to be released into circulation. with currency throughout most of Teraf standardised, a central mint has lost much of its importance, and in fact Christoté has others in East Zabrial, Salbair and Eren; but the need to protect the presses and the importance for each coin to correspond to the right weight means the mint is both strongly staffed and heavily guarded. Backing on to Harvest Way, a big black pair of iron gates well-manned by Guardsmen shut it off from outsiders. Conveniently, the government's main metalsmiths is also on Harvest Way, where the sheets of metal are prepared for minting into coins and old coinage and presses are smuggled in to be melted down. Needless to say, Harvest Way isn't the world's quietest street to live in.
Next to the mint lies another heavily guarded building, the Federal Treasury, and also the records relating to incoming and outgoings from the treasury, which takes up rather more room than the money itself. Christoté on the whole manages to break even, and if it is in surplus refuses to hoard stuff away out of principal - the only time the platinum floor safes are anything approaching full are where big hauls from the annual Federal Taxes come in. The coffers in Christoté's rather atrophied National Bank are also kept here. The other Mayering Rooms buildings are mainly offices and meeting rooms for the administration of Christoté's finances, and so bear less internal resemblance to hill forts or blacksmith's. Named Tustick House, Rubello House and Ui House (rather satirically, after three money-grabbing villains from a Garrath parable), the administration buildings are all fairly ornate, especially Tustick, the centre-front one, with a lavish entrance hall and main meeting room.
The Mayering Rooms function as a specialised arm of Huwdone House, with no formal power, just the capacity to bring recommendations to the Privy Council and Parliament; these, though, are often just rubber-stamped without argument. As well as monitoring central government expenditure and administering the Federal Tax (both carried out at Rubello House) the Rooms personnel also advise on tax levels by each Electoral Federate, advises on interests rates, audits local treasuries