Crystal Palace - Workshops reveal the practical machinery behind the palace's stranger architecture. Broad work halls, side vaults, colored sigils, gears, orbs, apparatus, and narrow service passages make the level feel like an engine room or fabrication floor rather than a ceremonial space.

For a GM, the workshop level is full of useful encounter anchors. Machinery can become cover, hazards, or objectives; small side rooms reward searching; and narrow corridors let defenders control access to more important equipment. The repeated colored markings help distinguish areas during a complex fight or investigation. In Shattered Star's The Dead Heart of Xin, these workshops support the deeper functions of the Crystal Palace. Outside the campaign they can become an artificer's foundry, magical factory, planar machine room, or arcane maintenance level beneath a fortress whose wonders only work because someone once built and serviced them here.