The Canyon Mall:

The Canyon Mall is part of a street in Ae'gura that connects Tokotah Courtyard to the Concert Hall Foyer. It is half-ruined from earthquakes after the Fall. Large portions of the street collapsed along the canyon side. The DRC placed several barricades around the collapsed sections to help prevent accidents.

There are five distinct buildings along the mall, which are called City Interiors #0078 through 0082 in the DRC classification system. Of them, the only one open to exploration is the Kadish Gallery, which is classed by the DRC as City Interior #0080. The buildings are suspected to have been shops of some sort, although there are several other possibilities one of which may have been the Arch Museum. However, instead of any writing identifying the buildings' purposes, many of them have the same slogan found on the Arch of Kerath, the Ferry Terminal, and the Great Library.

The inscription is damaged, but it reads "rebantano tānēen shemtē". The phrase means "the island welcomes you". It breaks down as, "the island welcomes-it you-plural ending". This is how the slogan would appear if it were undamaged.

 rebantano tAnEen SemtE

This is how it appears above the Canyon Mall buildings:

The following building numbers are a guess as to the correct order. The numbers may very well apply to the buildings in the opposite direction. The only one that is certain is the number of the Kadish Gallery.

City Interior 0078:
Halted at Phase 3 when the DRC abandoned the cavern.

City Interior 0079:
Status unknown.

City Interior 0080:
The Kadish Gallery, which is open to explorers. The name is not one that was assigned by the DRC; it is a translation of the actual D'ni name, which is written along the tops of the walls inside.

City Interior 0081:
Status unknown.

City Interior 0082:
Halted at Phase 1, due to large cracks in the main support pillar.

The Kadish Gallery:

This building was purchased by Guildmaster Kadish after his dismissal from the Guild of Writers, and was opened as an exhibit of art made by D’ni and ahrotahntee (non-D'ni) craftsmen. This disguised its true purpose, which was to house a set of clues to puzzles in Kadish Tolesa and Ahnonay. Kadish may have commissioned the art to remind himself of how to get to his vault. Another possibility is that his ego made him hide clues to his puzzles in plain sight as a way of thumbing his nose at the visitors. Kadish was noted for inviting people to come to the Watcher's Pub, which he had also purchased, to try to solve his Great Tree puzzle.

The gallery has D'ni writing along the top edge of the walls which reads "retimelokh kādish", repeated continuously. This translates as "the gallery of Kadish". For those interested in knowing how the sentence is constructed, "re-" is a prefix that serves the same purpose as "the", and "-okh" is a suffix or stand-alone word that means "of", as in "belonging to". "timel" means gallery.

 retimelok KADiS

On the second level, just inside the entrance, is a circular balcony with a dome above it resembling a night sky. It is not stated anywhere which sky the dome represents, but it may be the sky of Garternay, given Kadish's themes elsewhere.

The secret room:

There is a hidden room in the Gallery, underneath the balcony that is just inside the entrance from the canyon. The room is semicircular, and there are no doors into it. In it, the D'ni writing runs along the baseboards. It's quite likely that the room was created in error during construction. It would have been an easy oversight when the balcony was installed for the space below it to be left inaccessible due to an oversight in the building plans. Accident or not, given that most of the clues to Kadish's puzzles depend on things that are missing or hidden, it seems highly appropriate that the building containing them would have a secret chamber.

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