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| Pierre Raveneau |
The temple is a vast, decrepit maze of impossible geometry.
Was: A monument to the vanity and greed of the Emperors.
Intruder: the High Magus, turned traitor along with his followers.
Synthesis & Fallout: Warring congregations looking for followers. The Magus attempts to birth the New God.
1: Pantheon
Lined with marble statues. The gods have all turned their backs. Natural light from high windows.
2: Imperial Shrine: Great Hall
Gloom and smoke. A high-vaulted hall with rows of bone-packed gibbets, glowing braziers, and smouldering incensors hanging from the ceiling. Floor is littered with human bones, ash, and broken swords.
(?) The massive doors leading to the ziggurat stair are made of solid gold and shaped like snarling lions. They open easily, but are far too heavy to be stolen unless broken apart somehow.
(?) Gibbets, braziers and incensors hang from heavy chains of uneven length; from 10’ up to 30’ (near the ceiling). It might be possible to move upward from one to another if you find a low one.
(?) There is a mezzanine floor overlooking this hall, hidden by shadow and pillars.
3: Imperial Shrine: Ziggurat Stair
The stair is made of human skulls.
(!) At its summit: the Avatar of Empire.
(?) The door at the summit leads to level 11: Imperial Palace.
4: Imperial Shrine: Mezzanine Arcade
30’ up. Clear view of the great hall from between the pillars.
5: Imperial Shrine: Deacons’ Quarters
(!) Lair of the Imperial Deacons. Skin and bone and empty eye sockets, chained to an unlife of eternal service.
Mien: whispered chorus, sinister chanting
Want: more victims for the Avatar, especially apostates
Need: to keep the fires lit
Fear: the renegade magician
A gloomy barracks.
6: Imperial Shrine: Storeroom
Gloomy cellar with seemingly limitless bags of charcoal and incense.
7: Non-Euclidean Corridor
(!??) This corridor winds back on itself in ways that shouldn't be possible.
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