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<blockquote data-quote="Badwe" data-source="post: 4516715" data-attributes="member: 61762">I like your thematic ideas for the earth temple, and encourage anyone else who has ideas for scenery/themes for elements to post as well.I hadn't thought about including iron/overgrown into the earth temple since I was so focused on it as sort of a primal, pure area.&nbsp; The main variation I had concocted was equating earth -&gt; sand and going on a faux Egyptian tangent (mummies, scarabs, traps, etc.).&nbsp; That would be just one theme though, as it got deeper I could imagine it being a spiral tower descending into the earth, with the final floor holding the sleeping tarrasque.The fire temple would naturally have to be a volcano.&nbsp; I almost imagine the fire temple as a place of fire business, with Azers, salamanders, Efreets, and red dragons all sitting around a slate table, counting coins and discussing trades they've made with the material plane in order to bring fire and heat into it.The water temple naturally lends itself to a beaver damn scenario, where one must dive underwater to enter it, but pockets of air fill it.&nbsp; One challenge I foresee with water is that I'd like to have an almost sewer or water pipe system so that water will sometimes fill a room or force your passage to the next zone to be a swim.&nbsp; The goal is that the threat of drowning be neither permanently present nor completely negligible.I am having trouble imagining an interesting setting for an ice temple besides just a temple made of ice.&nbsp; Worse still, a giant igloo would neglect some of the interesting settings of a cold area like ice floes, snowy tundras, or barren stretches of land blasted by howling cold wind.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Badwe, post: 4516715, member: 61762"] I like your thematic ideas for the earth temple, and encourage anyone else who has ideas for scenery/themes for elements to post as well. I hadn't thought about including iron/overgrown into the earth temple since I was so focused on it as sort of a primal, pure area. The main variation I had concocted was equating earth -> sand and going on a faux Egyptian tangent (mummies, scarabs, traps, etc.). That would be just one theme though, as it got deeper I could imagine it being a spiral tower descending into the earth, with the final floor holding the sleeping tarrasque. The fire temple would naturally have to be a volcano. I almost imagine the fire temple as a place of fire business, with Azers, salamanders, Efreets, and red dragons all sitting around a slate table, counting coins and discussing trades they've made with the material plane in order to bring fire and heat into it. The water temple naturally lends itself to a beaver damn scenario, where one must dive underwater to enter it, but pockets of air fill it. One challenge I foresee with water is that I'd like to have an almost sewer or water pipe system so that water will sometimes fill a room or force your passage to the next zone to be a swim. The goal is that the threat of drowning be neither permanently present nor completely negligible. I am having trouble imagining an interesting setting for an ice temple besides just a temple made of ice. Worse still, a giant igloo would neglect some of the interesting settings of a cold area like ice floes, snowy tundras, or barren stretches of land blasted by howling cold wind. [/QUOTE]

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