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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhun" data-source="post: 5511307" data-attributes="member: 29098">Bellus pushes the heavy doors open, and they swing silently open on massive, well-oiled hinges of bronze. He ushers you into the Temple narthex, and Zirat lights a torch to fend off the darkness. The floor beyond the doors is made up of reddish-brown slate-like stone squares, each about two feet on a side. The walls of the area are plastered and painted with scenes befitting the nature of the foul Temple - disgusting acts, killing, torture, enslavement, robbery, thievery and other unspeakable things. The creed of the Temple and its worshippers is all too evident here. Evil is flaunted and lionized. High up the walls, stained glass windows line the vestibule, though the dark of night keeps the scenes from being easily discerned.To the north, you can see the nave of the Temple. The pillars to either hand are of a pinkish mineral, shot through with worm-colored veins. Their arches lead to an unremarkable pair of lesser side aisles. The columns supporting the archways, as well as the arches themselves, are worked in bas relief. As with the frescoes in the entryway, the scenes are ineffable, vile and filthy. This area was probably reserved for the lowliest of worshippers during the time when the Temple flourished. The area beyond the nave, past the first archway, appears to be more open. --- MAP ---</blockquote>