Temple of Xholanka
The biggest boondoggle during the period of the Slann’s absence was a full replica of the @great. It was almost finished by the time the Slann returned. When asked the Slann were asked what to do about it, Lord Laershin replied, “It’s so close to complete, might as well finish it,” so the workers finished it, but it is largely undecided what to do with it.
A lot of Klodorex wanted to dedicate the temple to Kaitar, but the Skink Priests wouldn’t allow a Temple to be dedicated to a mere Saurus, so the compromise was made to ask the Slann to dedicate this temple to the Old One Xholanka, Kaitar’s patron deity and the current unofficial patron of all Klodorex. Because of Xholanka’s relative obscurity, Klodorex now boasts what is easily the most grandiose temple dedicated to Xholanka in the entire world.
A large chamber is decorated with carvings depicting the events of the Reunification (aka the events of Orphaned Temple City) also called the Hall of Heroes. The Hall of Heroes has a life size statue of Kaitar, Zat-kai, Taresh, and a number of others with plans to expand the statue collection indefinitely. There is also a large interior chamber set aside as a shrine for worshipping Xholanka.
Apart from the two aforementioned chambers, the Temple of Xholanka is mostly wasted space. The temple could easily accommodate multiple Slann, and it has been suggested that it could be used for visiting Slann, but there haven’t been any takers. Klodorex doesn’t get many Slann visitors. If foreign Slann do visit they either want to borrow the power of the mountain top temples, or they are coming to either help or meddle with the Klodorex Slann politically in which case they have all asked/demanded to stay in the Great Temple.
There is also the problem that the Temple of Xholanka is pretty close to the Kahoun’s southern border and is fairly exposed to attackers from the south. It’s not safe enough for a Slann or an ancient treasure, at least not while there are more obvious places to put them. That said, the First aren’t going to tell invaders there is nothing of interest here, since they’d rather fight invaders here than on the mountaintop or in the main temple district. The “sacred vaults” in this temple have no treasure at all and are loaded with the best magical and mundane traps Klodorex could come up with.
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Temple / Religious complex
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