defy the tyrannous stars
- Intent: To submit a mysterious Jedi friendly(ish) location inspired by the netherworld map.
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- Structure Name: Lost Temple
- Classification: Zeffo Ruins
- Location: Netherworld
- Affiliation: Neutral
- Accessibility: There are many shifting paths to the Lost Temple throughout netherworld. Spirits of any alignment are drawn by whatever shred of alien sentience remains here for some unknowable purpose.
- Description: The Lost Temple defies our natural laws. From without it resembles ancient Zeffo construction but within those timeless walls the ruin seems to stretch on forever. It might be an infinite space although there is no way to determine that for certain. Force worship appears to be the structure's primary purpose however untold aeons in the mist-beyond has warped geometry and even incorporated more futuristic designs. It is a seemingly eternal maze populated only by wandering spirits and the echoes of Zeffo culture. Massive inventions of unknown provenance produce peculiar Force effects or clash with the nether realm itself.
- Lucidity: Varies. Some sections are indistinguishable from the living world while others defy physics and others still contain far stranger anomalies. In some incomprehensible way the Temple itself is a world between worlds linking not just the afterlife but different moments in time and space.
- Hostility: The Lost Temple is not hostile but it is very dangerous. If ever there was a guiding intelligence behind the amorphous structure's constant transformations it has either vanished or gone insane. Spirits from all over the netherworld are drawn to its passages offering potential threats of their own.
- Threshold: There is always a light. There is always a Jedi. There is always a temple.
- Anchorage: In the dark below are chains that bind. Sunder them at your immortal peril.
- Voidstone Gates: How could anyone build such wonders? Their moods are fickle. Careful not to get sealed away.
- Twisting Halls: There must be some kind of way out of here said the joker to the thief. There's too much confusion I can't get no relief.
- Martyrium of Endless Sorrow: The scriptures say there is a confessional made of solid kyberite.
- Zeffo Vault: A worthy soul is the key. Whispered myth tells of an astrium within that unlocks control over the Vergence Scatter though others believe in a far more terrible truth. Dark tales of a golden casket where Zeffo spirits are kept locked away.
Whatever unnatural disaster or failed experiment that brought this Lost Temple into the Mist-Beyond also appears to have erased any historical evidence of its existence. There are many theories concerning its provenance however the architectural design is clearly Zeffo. It is a Force temple that seemingly predates Jedi culture. If its transplantation to the netherworld was intentional either something went terribly wrong or the ruins merely outlived their function. Now the Temple is trapped here forever. Yet something still calls out to lost souls within the nether and new pathways to the Threshold are constantly forming and reforming. Could it be that after all this time its original purpose has not yet been fulfilled?
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