Temple of Uk'Toa

Roof Terrace

Only about 50 feet across at the widest point, it is dominated by a large stone slab in the middle with iron rings on the sides.

There are 5 serpent statues all facing the stone slab

On the north side of the slab, a very worn, but still sturdy trapdoor sits

Top Floor - Pentegram Chamber

Access to this room is through the Trap Door from the Roof Terrace

The iconography in this chamber is based on Zehir, the Cloaked Serpent, and the imbuing of its power into its followers creating mutations. The images show people in the midst of this metamorphosis and transforming into snakes.

There are 6 inch holes in the walls that air is felt coming out of

There is a staircase on one end, a fountain and two load bearing pillars

This is as far as their access has gotten them

Access Down

The stairs lead to a stone wall and seems to go no-where. The 3rd step down (of 12 steps) is trapped and will turn the steps into a slide that opens out to outside, forcing you onto the side off the side of the pyramid all the way to the bottom

The fountain has two snake carvings at the bottom, both mirrors of Ukatoa. With some effort you can slide the snakes and if you shape them into the form of the island, the fountain drains and a spiral staircase opens to the floor below.

Middle Floor - Small Orchard

About a 60ft decent, it opens into a chamber that smells of earth

It has no access to light outside but there is an orange glow to it

There are a heap of identical trees all bearing fruit, the central tree being the biggest and the one giving off the light there is also a lot of rotten fruit on the ground.

On each wall there is a stone tablet, similar to the roof one, that has grooves coming off it leading around the room. If you dig up the rotten fruit you find these grooves everywhere

Above each Tablet is a stone carving, with a Roman Numeral in each corner (I to IV).

I shows a town, overrun with illness and disease as an army of snake like humanoids wait outside and a large snake being from the clouds spits down a cloud of acid

II shows a human leader on a similar pyramid to this one, shaking hands with a lizard creature

III shows the Human and Lizard armies taking on a massive snake-like army under the shadow of a great wave, the faint shadow of a giant serpent in the wave

IV shows the large snake like diety behind bars beneath the earth and the Humans/Lizards rejoicing, with the large serpent from before the barrier between hell and earth.

Access Down

Investigating the central tree, it is actually a fake tree, made of amber like glowing crystal. There are small runnels that run up the bark and actually go into the tree. If blood is applied on the top alter and is allowed to run down, a door opens with another 70ft spiral stair leading down. Alternativly, if enough blood runs from the 4 stone altars in here, it will open as well.

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If the party has been guided thus far by the Yuan-Ti, and they know they need a heap of blood to continue, they will either ask the party to go get some bodies to fill the requirement, or they will use the players

clues...

The fruit is halucinogenic, it allows the eater to see in Ultraviolet, but also will give you disadvantage on anything sense related and the potential to see random things that arent there.

One thing the fruit does is let you see the following Secret messages on the carvings above the tablets, the messages are interwoven.

(I) Sacrifices feed the Garden

(II) Sacrifices open the Way

(III) The Garden Feeds the Wardens

(IV) The Wardens protect Ukkatoa

Bottom Floor - Warden Room

5 sided room with a large open space in the middle. Two large golems stand inert in the center of the room.

There are 3 large stone portaits on the opposite walls, one of a bird, one of a snake and one of a worm.

The very center of the room has a well of somekind, brimmed to the top with salt water

Portrait 1 - The Bird The huge bird is of dark purple flame wreathing the sky above. Its wings curve upward and bend down, and where the wings end, fire curls and burns and the feathers on the edges of the wings come up into a purple and dark gray flame with bits and specks of deep red. At the top where its head looks down, the beak long and pointed, there are three eyes across its face, and in each of these eyes is a set of large onyx stones
Portrait 2 - The Serpent The giant coiled serpent is made of scale and fin, with eyes made of amber. Each of these eyes is a separate amber piece about the size of a large gold piece, all along the coil of its body. At the very top, where it's rearing up, a very long, thin, pointed, almost lizard-like maw opens, and behind it, a giant tidal wave is curling and frozen in place, looking like it's about to bear down on and either destroy or sweep away the crowd below it. The head has three eyes and eyes evenly spaced around the entire length of its coiled body all made of pieces of amber.
Portrait 3 - The Worm The curling thick worm has folded skin and tooth-like scales burrowing up to produce mountains over the crowd, cliff faces made of stone and rock breaking and about to plummet into the crowd below. Its form is bulbous with strange protrusions, spine-like scales that pull it through the broken earth. It has a ring of teeth that accentuate where its mouth is, and on the inside, where a tongue would be, there are three eyes across the inside of its mouth. These are made of white polished ivory.
Actions SLOWLY the golems will begin to activate, as this chamber has not been open for some time They will attempt to attack the party, unless they Utter the Phrase 'Praise Uk'Toa' in Maush, the language of the Kia'Nau.
The Portraits At the base of each portrait is a hole sliding 45 degrees away and what looks like a trumpet mouthpiece. If 10 of the fruits are placed within, the portrait will glow and the creatures will be released, a mechanism is heard behind. Mechanically each creature is basically a Kracken, but one can fly, one can burrow and one can slither. They are constructs. They begin activating, then leave from behind the portraits down a 250 ft tunnel, coming out in the ocean surrounding. Once released a command can be issued through the mouthpiece. It can be simple or complex, but the creature follows it to the letter. The constructs will run out of fuel/juice in 7 days from deployment, and deactivate. Needing to be brought back here to refuel.

clues

There are notes carved into the stone of each portrait detailing how to activate, but it is all in Moash.

Heading Down

There is a Well heading down about 70 feet, through brackish but clear water to a spherical chamber about 30 feet in diameter. There is a large carving of a snake in the middle with a spot for an orb in the center where the serpent's eye would be.

Other then that, there is a teeth whip (PG 220 Evil Book) that can be peeled out of the lower section.

Architecture

5 sided pyramid with three levels (4 with the terrace roof). It is 150 feet to the top. Each side of the Pyramid has a stone staircase leading to the terrace roof. Surrounding the pyramid are stone statues of snakes with spaces for torches. The jungle encroaches the rest of the structure now.

Defenses

If the party is unknown or at war with the yuan-ti, then there are various traps set up, as well as fire down from the top. There are many yuan-ti sentrys in this area, as the war with the Lizard Folk has forced them back here and it is their only base.

Founding Date

400 PD