Chapter 11: Bookworms
Calen and his companions woke up early next day, so that they would have plenty of time to read.
They decided spread out in the temple to not distract each other, and to better focus on the books.
Calen chose a spot on the grand tree in the atrium, taking example from Auren who seemed to make the plant his permanent napping spot.
The first title he would read today was... well it didn’t have a title, it was one of the Koravel’s journals - it was numbered 18 and contained information about the temples.
Laying comfortably on the bent trunk, he started reading:
It took me long time to realise the true purpose of the temples of the old pantheon, but who could blame me? They weren’t used in the correct way for centuries
In the times before the Sun Kingdom, all the gods were venerated equally, but the temples were not in fact dedicated to the gods themselves, but to their champions.
The concept of a champion of the gods is slightly different from the one we know today - a champion of the Sun God would be significantly weaker than a Flamebearer, even though their power comes from the same place.
That’s were the temples come in, each of them could be claimed by one champion and it would become their source of power.
The temple and the champion become linked, and whenever one is strengthened, the other grows in power as well.
For the temple it’s fairly easy, people just have to bring appropriate offerings in the vicinity of the temple - lives for the sun champion, memories for the moon champion, and so on.
The most interesting part of the temple growing stronger, is that it’s sphere of influence grows as well. What happens when two temples belonging two the same champion ’meet’? What happens when two different influences reach each other?