The King's Temple
For a thousand years a solitary jackal guarded the entrance to the King's Chapel. It wandered the halls attentive to any sound that might herald an intruder, ready to pounce and tear the soul from their body before feasting upon their flesh. If not for the sand storms that wash over the temple exterior, wearing away at the iron hard rock, there would be a mountain of bones blocking the entrance, instead their are fragments, a paper thin bowl that was once a skull, a sliver of bone that was once an arm.
The jackel didn't care who made the temple, had no interest in the columns and the animals carved upon the rock. It never pondered how they raised the marble slab that served as the temple roof inside the greater cavern nor how they got it through the narrow entrance only that it provided a cool space out of the wind.
When it wandered in it was chasing a rabbit that it caught and ate on the shore of the slowly growing lake. Once sated it stooped to drink from the waters and found itself unable to stop. Magic flowed through its body and transformed it into a small god. From then on it stayed in the temple that is until the humans and elves arrived to force it out. Now it wanders among the rocky interior watching them as they rowed their boats across the lake and clambered over the ruins.
Purpose / Function
The king's temple is set within a larger cavern with a marble slab capping the structure. Two thrones sit opposite with a central aisle running from the exterior steps all the way to the interior. The working assumption is that it was the coronation room for the rulers of Min Falon and some of the yet undeciphered glyphs seem to lend credence that that theory.
A set of steps behind the left throne lead up to an opening in the cliff face and a balcony shaped like a hand. The view from the gauntlet stretches for miles and is believed to be where the newly anointed ruler blessed those below.
Behind the right-hand throne is a passageway that leads to the Royal Crypt of Falon'mor where the Niklin buried their noble dead.
Architecture
A tall cavern that runs from the exterior to the interior. The temple is a free standing structure inside. Columns support a marble slab. The only furniture in the room are two large throne set opposite each other.
RUINED STRUCTURE
-600
-600
Founding Date
-2100
Type
Temple / Religious complex
Parent Location
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