The Gilded Solarium
A shimmering edifice of polished white marble and gold leaf located on the highest hill of the city. Its central dome is composed of thousands of facets of amber glass that illuminate the interior with a golden glow regardless of the weather outside.
The Gilded Solarium
The interior is filled with the warm, heavy scent of sandalwood and beeswax. A profound sense of peace settles over visitors, accompanied by the distant, rhythmic ringing of a silver bell.
A shimmering edifice of polished white marble and gold leaf located on the highest hill of the city. Its central dome is composed of thousands of facets of amber glass that illuminate the interior with a golden glow regardless of the weather outside.
Patient, observant, and surprisingly humble despite his ornate vestments.
History
Divine Services
The Solarium provides magical healing including Cure Wounds and Lesser Restoration for a modest donation. For level 5 adventurers, the high priest can perform a ritual of Revivify or Remove Curse if the components are provided and the cause is just.
Sacred Relics
The temple houses the Lens of Truth, a magnifying glass made of solid citrine that can reveal illusions and invisible creatures when sunlight passes through it. It is guarded by two glass golems that only activate if the relic is touched without permission.
Sacred Offerings
Devotees often leave gold coins or jars of sunflower honey at the base of the Great Sundial to receive a day of good fortune or fair weather for their upcoming travels. These offerings are collected every dusk to fund the temple's local soup kitchen.
Denizens
Patient, observant, and surprisingly humble despite his ornate vestments.
A stern woman with a heart of gold who manages the temple's vast charitable distributions and medicine stocks.
A muscular acolyte who crafts holy symbols and maintains the temple's complex golden astronomical instruments.
Rumors & Plot Hooks
- 1.The bells of the Solarium ring by themselves when a great evil enters the city gates.
- 2.There is a hidden sun-blade locked in a vault that only the worthy can open during a solstice.
- 3.The Arch-Prelate hasn't slept in twenty years, spending every night in vigil prayer for the world.
Classified Entry
Beneath the solar altar lies a crack in the Prime Material Plane that leaks raw radiant energy, which the temple was actually built to contain rather than exploit.
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