Temple of the Dutiful Sun Gifted with the Immaculate Light

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Nestor: Devoted Reflection (Mnemon Lo'yuun)


Location: Five Dragons Courtyard (Temple District, Imperial City)


Description: A squat, circular building between seven gold-domed towers, atop which a gold-plated sail rises into the sky. The shadow of this sail, as it passes between the towers and temple entrance through the passage of the day, marks with utmost precision the flow of time. It is here that artificers and craftsmen come to calibrate their own solar clocks and artifacts.


The temple is a shrine to the Unconquered Sun, chief amongst the Celestial Gods at the behest of the Elemental Dragons. As his light reflects the true fire of Hesiesh, many peasants across Creation are deceived by cults devoted to his worship, but not here: the Temple of the Dutiful Sun grants the Sun the prayers he is due for so unfailingly fulfilling his proper role in the Perfected Hierarchy. Its doors are shut against visitors, save for a few festivals when Dragonblooded are invited to join the monks in praising the Sun for its loyal service.


The Sun, unconquered in his quest to uphold the will of the Dragons, receives significant worship as the head of the divine pantheon, and in addition to Temples dedicated to his service, which hold mass four times daily (at dawn, at midday, at sunset and at midnight), each Immaculate monk and (ostensibly, though not always in practice outside the peasant class) layperson grants the Sun a single prayer each day at those proscribed times.


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