The Temple of the Light

     A curved, sweeping white marble stairway leads to the most ornamental feature of the first floor, the entrance doorway, two large wooden doors of a deep mahogany, wrought with smoke-black iron, and a large solar disc evident between wings above the double doorway. Two waterfalls sit aside the stairs to the right and left, slowly churning their way from top to bottom between water-loving plants potted in the soil of the planters. The natural stone look of the falls make them seem like they were not manmade, but the mason enclosure that houses them gives that fact away.

     Four huge supports rise from the ground surrounding the temple, giving the appearance of a domed pyramid without sides, while the perpendicular walls give away its nature as a true piece of architecture housing what is inside. Fourty-nine altars sit atop the second floor balconies, each for a different guise of the avatars of the Light, and a central dome on the keystone support dominates several smaller domes atop the other points of the temple. It is a combination of many styles, but its masonic structure and non-magical liquid movement system is unparalleled among engineers throughout the realms, with its self-restoring hydro-sewery lying below the temple's lower chambers, once connected to the Great Palace of Vraisynn. The aqueducts, fully functional, lie intact below the ground around the temple's base, even after the event that tore it from its previous reality.

     In the cosmos of the mind and matter, of principle and permutation, and of law and chaos, there are few archetypes which reign supreme and are as well-known as the Light and the Shadow.

     On the outskirts of Limbo, a realm of chaos and of dying elements and displaced land adrift in the outer realms of the multiverse, on a chunk of solid earth and stable air, in the only calm place in a plane of absolute chaos, a hallowed and stately temple stands resolute despite the realm's consistent attempts to digest it. Its white-washed, newly-sealed walls stand more than two stories tall, with a center dome and spire pinnacling at more than four. Grey, navy blue, and gold trim adorn the walls at their highest point, with seams of a silvery iron grating covering portions of the lower parts, and red-orange rubies placed every so often along its peaks and adornments. Four large, monlithic stones jut out from the foundations below the temple, with strong and architecturally stable connecting rods that point up to the temple's center spire and the second story balcony that sprawled openly before the elemental sky above it.

     Only those of intentions without evil can walk on this ground, or else suffer the pain of walking on searing stone that burns the flesh of demons and devils and the patrons of pain and suffering. In this place there is only the law, order and peace of the Light of Truth and of its avatar and agent, the Exemplar Elishar. The almighty opponent of the Shadow of Mistruth, Toldoth, this avatar of the omnipotent Light comes only in visions, landmarks of the eons, and great cosmic battles as a real entity, and in most cases is unknown or unneeded as a Greater Deity of highest power. The keeper of the Temple, a dark-skinned, aging man named Vestähl Mentu, tends to the well-being of the building, its library, chambers, and divine laws. Many mortals come here for peace, sanctuary, healing, and divine counsel, though nothing is ever promised, as the Elishar and the Light are not petty gods who do the bidding of mortals. The Light is a Divine Will that entrusts that only destiny will keep the mortal souls on the correct course. Nothing outside of Destiny and Eternity more definitively allows the soul of a mortal to be healed, but many things are possible here.





     If you are not a Roleplayer, but are instead a mortal in need of healing or prayer to the Light of Truth, you are welcome here. Please visit the Prayer Chamber for RP and non-RP conference with the Keeper of the Temple.





Locations:
Outside the Temple
    >Storage Chambers
    >Limbo
Hall of Prophecy
Central Temple Chamber
    >Stairway to the Heavens
    >Vestähl's quarters
Prayer Chamber









History Pages and WFR Links
Old Temple of Light01
Vraisynn Palace of the Vraisynn Nation
Lands of Qor of Jashnia
Wiki Fantasy Roleplay