Temple of the Sun

Written by Chrundle_the_Great

Description

The Temple of the Sun is hidden in a ruined sunstone shrine near Spring Garden. When the carved doorway was repaired, the stones slid away one by one, opening a "portal" into void. Within were many trials that tested the virtue of shedding one's ambition.
The Trial of the Sun is complete, and the gateway closed.

Inhabitants

The True Elves are said to exist in up to eight dimensions. Perhaps those in the temple were only illusions. Perhaps they were distortions caused by bending time and space in on itself. Perhaps they were merely dreams.

The Banquet

• Opulence, the tiefling merchant.
• Leandra, the human barbarian.
• Aniel, the elven politician.
• Vinathur, the gold dragonborn hunter.
• Reen, the halfling sailor.
• Favian, the half-orc playwright.

The Coliseum

• Nanri and Leva, the celestial knights.
• Akril, their son and a fledgling priest.
• Asinder and Adosi, the gladiator and his black pegasus companion.
• Shyndyr Glorykeeper, the gold dragon and master of the arena.

Locations

Within the void, casting sunlight revealed a moonstone bridge towards the first of the trials. Completing tests in the banquet hall and the coliseum granted access to the throne room and an audience with the Sun Elf adjudicator.
Again, these may not have been actual physical spaces, but visions caused by eight-dimensional spaces being contorted.

History

The True Elves, who experience time differently, describe the temples as sites of worship or their eventual birthplaces or tests that echo with the Words of Creation.
It is also said that the mortal who once bested Celestix had a hand in building this temple and the ones of Moon and Stars to preserve knowledge that the celestials sought to hide because it might be harmful.
The paladin Ravix was called to pursue this trial, and all the elves of Gaes heard the summons. By shedding his ambition, he was given a disorienting vision of Val and compelled to seek the other temples. The adjudicator gifted him the ring of the burning sun and the key to the remaining trials.
With the trial completed, the shrine was dormant once again.

Icarus, Icarus, pride cometh before the fall.

— Sun Elf

The adjudicator sat in the throne room

Alternative Names

The Shrine of Val, The Sun Trial

Type

Portal

Parent Location

Fellgrim Forest

Related Report (Primary Locations)

• The Temple of the Sun

Related Materials

• Moonstone
• Sunstone