Holy Temple

The Holy Temple at Mt. Daneasus is one of the most beautiful and impressive temples to ORB in the land. Carved from the very rock of the Mountain itself, located at the heart of the city, under a specially designed chimney that allows ORB's light to shine upon the altar, the Temple is the center of religious life in the city, and also a major pilgrimage site.

Creation

Carved from solid rock, rather than built, the main temple facility was completed in the Year of the Sun 675 after more than two centuries of work. Outlying buildings and additional facilities, including the reliquary, were constructed from 675 until 843. One of the largest religious facilities in Crescent, this Temple became a second home to the Church of ORB, rivaling the Spire in terms of influence, wealth, knowledge, and political power.

Destruction

It was in the Year of the Sun 843 that disaster apparently struck. The College of Mages, in the midst of a war with the Church, struck at Mt. Daneasus, and caused the Temple, and all its priests and servants to vanish without a trace. It was believed lost forever. This act is the last expenditure of the Arcane power stored at the Jade Tower, and the College falls to Field Marshal Carline Bright-Eyes' army soon after.

Sìorraidh

The apparent destruction of the Temple was accompanied by very limited casualties, as most of the normal occupants had been called by Valanthe Amakiir

  However, during the Scarlet War, it was destroyed by the College of Mages.  The missing temple is now a shrine, a perfectly spherical hole in the rock, several hundred yards across.  There are numerous flower stands that have been set up around the perimeter, and people make pilgramages to throw flowers into the crater. Traditionally, it's a small white flower called sìorraidh (eternal, in dwarven).Oddly, since the destruction of the temple, the ley lines simply stop at the border of the missing temple, and then pick up again at the other side, as though nothing had happened.