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Lord Entropy holds his Court in the Locust Garden (Locus Medan), a strict and dangerous Chancel owned by the Darklord [Medan]. The swarming, droning insect hordes giving the Chancel its name are kept in a constant state of starvation, jaws locked to keep them from consuming plants or humans—and they much prefer the latter. Occasionally, it pleases the Court to block a condemned Noble's power and thrust them into the teeming masses. Sometimes, the bugs will be left helpless; sometimes Medan's Powers untether the "locusts" and let them feast. The Courthouse itself and the path leading to it from outside the Chancel are warded against this plague.

Medan's Powers try hundreds of igNoble humans every year in the Locust Court. Many of the confused mortals never learn the charges against them. Often Medan's Powers do not know, either, simply relying on the intuitions of Deuteronomy, the Power Of Responsibility. The fun of it, of course, is the look on the victim's face when sentence is pronounced. It's never what one would call "nice".

Trials of Nobilis are much less common. A good year might see only two or three. For these trials, the blood is washed from the floors and the symbol of Lord Entropy (a pattern in colorless cloth and black) is hung upon the wall. The Darkest Lord or one of his three known Powers comes to oversee the process; this is a kindness, for Medan's own Powers never hand down a verdict of "innocent".

Entropy's laws are meaningless unless innocence is recognized as well as guilt — accordingly, the Darkest Lord may offer a reprieve. The other hope for a Power is that the punishment given them by the whimsy of the Locust Court is bearable: better by far to spend a day choking on insects than death, and better death than being kept alive in that place while your heart and lungs are returned to home.