The Palace of Revelry

 I decided that I would make a post showing the layout of the Palace of Revelry, where the entirety of Triad Triad: Tournament of the Elements takes place. Here's a basic map showing the layout and where the rooms connect.

So, as you can tell, it's not overly detailed or anything and just serves to give you an idea of where each room is. I'll do a master map later when the game is completed that has plenty of detail in it. For now, I just want to explain what each room is and what purpose they all serve, starting in the Altar of Origin (where the player begins) and branching out from there.

Altar of Origin: This is where the player spawns into the Palace of Revelry after telling Dionysos who they are (you pick your character prior to appearing in this map). Jihl Nabaat hangs out here and gives you the basic gist of where you are. It's a simple map, and has a sort of "homey" feel to it that I find a lot of starting rooms have in Metroidvania games and such. There's always a bit of comfort in going back to the room everything started in.

Verdant Park: A lush park with canals running through the center. Card players and other random folks come here to relax. This is the first place I'd recommend new players go to play cards, as there are several NPCs who play cards here and several of them more or less just use starter cards.

Endowment Emporium: After starting out, you are advised to come here to pick up your starter cards. The endowment agent will give you seven cards to start, and that's about all there is to it! You can return here at any time in the future if you somehow manage to fall below four cards, at which point the endowment agent will give you more free starter cards to get you back on your feet.

East Wing: A simple hallway with some NPCs hanging about, with some of them willing to play cards with you. Leads into the Exchange and Recycling Depot.

Exchange: A market where card players will offer you high quality cards in exchange for several lesser quality ones. They may also ask for a little gil as well. A neat little place for players to go to see if there's anything available for trade that interests them. The cards that will be available here will change based on the player's progress through the main story (which is the six elemental tournaments).

Recycling Depot: You can come here to discard your unwanted cards. Put cards into their corresponding recycling units and you will get a small sum of gil in exchange for the card.

The Promenade: A large open area where people relax at tables that sort of serves as a central location since it serves as a sort of nexus between the east and west sides of the palace. There are some card players here of various skill levels. After completing the initial quest that takes you to your HQ, a moogle will show up here who can teleport you all around the Palace of Revelry for a small fee.

Promenade Cafe: The first cafe players can happen upon. Cafes are basically lawless areas where card rules are all over the place! In addition, they are the only place where the Indirect and All card exchange rules are in effect. If you're feeling confident in your abilities, the cafes are a good place to pick up new cards.

Main Hub: After completing the initial quest that leads you to your HQ, you can come to the Main Hub to enter any of the six card tournaments at will. Expect to traverse through this map a lot for a multitude of reasons, as there are useful locations on both sides of the Main Hub, the card shop is accessible from its south side, and you'll obviously be coming here to enter the tournaments.

West Wing: A long vertical hallway that serves as a connector for the four HQ maps. Headquarters are where you go to progress the main tournament quests and more, so you will walk through here frequently.

Cornelia HQ: The headquarters for characters from Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy II, and Final Fantasy III.

Tycoon HQ: The headquarters for characters from Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy V, and Final Fantasy VI.

Alexandria HQ: The headquarters for characters from Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, and Final Fantasy IX.

Gridania HQ: The headquarters for characters from Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIV, and Final Fantasy XV. Final Fantasy XI is technically represented, but exclusively in the tournaments.

The Cloud Walk: A courtyard-esque walkway with platforms over clouds that lazily drift by below. Similar to the Verdant Park in that this is a place where NPCs come to relax.

Cloud Walk Cafe: Like the Promenade Cafe, another place to go to take part in card games with NPCs who play by random rules and the All/Indirect trading rules.

Library of Revelry: Don't understand some of the rules of Triple Triad? Come here for a full explanation on how everything works.

Trivia Den: Come here to take part in a trivia mini-game to accumulate gil. Trivia questions are all related to Final Fantasy. 

Chamber of Dionysos: Private chamber where the God of Revelry, Dionysos, resides.