Chapel of Time

South of the Davish River and off the beaten path sits the Chapel of Time, a crude chapel constructed of timber and stone. The first remarkable thing about this chapel is that while its architectural style shares many common themes with other ancient religious buildings, there are no icons or symbols of any kind to be found on its outer walls.
But the strangeness doesn’t end there. The chapel’s appearance actually changes throughout the day. As the sun rises, the chapel seems brand new, its walls freshly constructed and free of erosion, its roof strong and solid, its iron doors polished and beautiful. As the day progresses, the chapel quickly falls into ruin, its walls crumbling, the doors rusting, windows clouding over with grime, the roof sagging, the grounds surrounding it becoming tangled and overgrown. As the sun sets every night, the chapel soundlessly yet dramatically crumbles to ruin. As night passes, the chapel’s ruins slowly erode away into rubble, then dust, and by the darkest hour of night are gone completely. Yet as the sun rises, the chapel appears again, fresh and new as the day it was born.
No one seems to know what causes the chapel’s daily creation and destruction; its doors and windows cannot be opened, and seem impervious to magic. Nightly exploration of the ruins fails to yield any clues. Those who try to stand in the area occupied by the chapel in the pre-dawn, hoping to appear inside it when it manifests, either find they have somehow miscalculated their position as the chapel’s walls appear beside them, or vanish as the chapel forms around them and are never seen again. The people of Sterich have numerous theories about the Chapel of Time, but generally they tend to avoid the strange building.
The Chapel of Time is actually an ancient structure that predates the nation of Sterich. Once dedicated to an obscure god of time, the chapel’s attendants turned against their normally benevolent deity and fell in with a doubtful lot of devil worshippers. As the corrupted clergy tore down their once-beloved altar and tried to erect a new altar to their infernal patron, the god of time smote them and desecrated their infernal chapel before moving on to seek more devout worshipers elsewhere.

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Chapel