The Observatory
On the slope of Mount Dindaro, at the end of a road considered almost sacred and away from the lights of the city, but in sight from every point of it, rises majestically the colossal Nyx Observatory. The building is divided into different floors opento the sky in large windows to the outside and colonnaded terraces to its gigantic inner courtyard, presided over by an armillary sphere of pure magic with representations of the constellations and with its center in Meletis itself. The lower halls hold an extensive collection of books centered on the observation of Nyx and the messages read by oracles and scholars, understood as prophecies and universal laws. Different observation lenses, magical and mechanical, decorate the openings to the outside. The interior remains in semi-darkness, softly illuminated by the lights emanating from the stars of the armillary sphere. The movement of scholars and priests is constant, but there are hardly any distant murmurs and the propitiatory silence of the study is respected. Faithful devotees of Keranos whisper their chants amidst incense accompanied by their oracles, while the clergy of Ephara carefully arrange the bundles of knowledge read in the heavens. The highest floor, with a golden pyramidal roof, holds an inner dome that, under the orders of oracles and priests, reflects Nyx itself as if at night. Several large lenses and stone tables allow the highest officials to study the cryptic laws hidden in Nyx, even with the sun overhead. Outside, a huge stoa surrounds the building to the north. Here travelers and petitioners in search of answers refresh themselves and eat at long stone tables while waiting to be attended to by priests and experts. To theeast, a building of considerable size serves as quarters for scholars, in dozens of sober cells with a central courtyard covered by a golden dome under which a sculpture of Ephara allows worship of the goddess.
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Observatory / Telescope
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