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Drakensang: The Dark Eye Equipment Database: Item Details
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Hesinde Temple |
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Aventurian Herald, Efferd 1030 BF
Hearth of Splendid Treasures Grows
Work on Ferdok's Temple of Hesinde continues
FERDOK. "It is almost as though the Goddess of Wisdom herself was guiding my hand. I can sense her presence every time I set to work with my hammer and chisel or take up my scraper and sander." Thus spoke a dusty stonemason working on the reliefs that will decorate the pillars at Ferdok's newest temple. Numerous workshops and workshacks have sprung up around the building site in the city's southeastern district. The walls of Ferdok's Temple of Hesinde gradually grow skywards. Dorion of Kuslik, Head Instructor and future High Priest at the temple, calls the laborers to prayer each day and appeals to Hesinde and her saints to shower their blessings on the temple's building site. Much is yet to be done if the temple is to find favor in the halls of Alveran, and the Head Instructor has requested that the Aventurian Herald publish an appeal for donations for this notoriously under funded project. For two years now, laborers have toiled to raise the temple walls stone by stone. The Church of Hesinde hopes that with the completion of the new temple, the light of truth and learning will shine brighter than ever in the land of Kosh. To this end the church now plans to establish a Hesinde School in Ferdok, which will open its doors to all of the town's citizens. Hesinde's new temple renews the Goddesses ties with the City of Ferdok: an ancient temple dedicated to the Goddess Hesinde stood on this exact spot for centuries until it was destroyed by fire 80 years ago. The fire allegedly broke out during an altercation between temple guardians and a group of heretics from a dragon-worshipping cult. This cancerous heresy exists even today and finds many a weak soul among the Church of Hesinde's less steadfast disciples. The new temple is based on a harmonic octagonal design: A combination of clear-standing pillars, arches and massive timber struts will support a gigantic central hall, which will feature numerous light shafts. The earlier temple's foundations were laid bare during excavations for the cellar and crypt. It seems that the earlier temple's catacombs may have survived the blaze of 80 years ago! Dorion of Kuslik hopes that ancient relicts and treasures might be retrieved from these catacombs once an entranceway has been found. The Head Instructor is an eminent authority on ancient languages and scripts, and an expert in historical matters and Hesindian theology. Kuslik has returned to Ferdok with the Temple of Hesinde's most prized artifact. Not only does the shield born by the might Dragonslayer Fendral protect its bearer from dragonspawn, it also harbors an ancient mystery that has never been solved. There can be no doubt that the Church of Hesinde has its very own reasons for rebuilding the temple at this particular time. Rumors have spread of a great quest that is announced every one hundred years in the halls of Ferdok's Temple of Hesinde - a quest that is somehow related to the Dragonslayer's shield. According to these rumors the time for this quest draws near and the temple is expected to open its doors soon... The Aventurian Herald will continue to follow this story...
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