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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 4140168" data-attributes="member: 21938">To the TempleAs the Young Vashti said, the temple is about a mile upstream, following the southern bank of the Leng River. The inhabited part of Cormondal soon gives way to derelict stone buildings, then old wooden shacks and rice paddies. By the time you reach the temple, about twenty minutes later, the Divine Emperor, the sun, has passed through the Gates of the West leaving behind a dark red glow in the western sky[sup]1[/sup], highlighting the dark cloudy night coming in from the East[sup]2[/sup].The temple stands on the bank of the river. A wall, about three feet high, surrounds the compound, serving more as a demarcation than a barrier. The weed-strewn metalled path that you have followed leads to a gap in the nearest wall, the short axis of the overall rectangle of the compound.  Flanking the compound entrance, and at regular intervals around the wall (roughly every 6 feet), statues or decorative pillars are stood atop the wall. There are two long, low buildings along the left and right long walls, the one on the right (towards the river) looks in a worse state of repair with a roof that sags alarmingly. At the far end of the compound is the temple shrine, a steeply stepped pyramid that glows in the last light of the sun. This, like the wall, can be seen to be heavily decorated with carvings and statuary.The whole compound is heavily overgrown, mainly with nettles, ground elder and other weeds. In the centre of the compound a large rhododendron, presumably once neat and ornamental, has sprawled low branches across the courtyard.[sup]1[/sup]. The geomantic animal Glass Frog swallows the sun each night in the West and guards him safely through the Underworld to the East. Red sky at dusk or dawn is thought to be the light of the sun shining through Glass Frog's throat pouch.[sup]2[/sup]. The sky of Conclave rotates, thus the Night half of the sky also rises in the east and 'sets' in the West. Creatures from the Underworld are thought to ride up with the night sky.</blockquote>

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