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Imarel Travel Guide - by T.A. Saunders ©2010 v1.2
Kept in the deepest part of the jungle, the Temple of Velsai is all that remains of a once, ancient and wicked city that stood there in dedication to the Lady of Spite herself. Now, standing amongst outcroppings of jungle trees and crumbled ruins, the temple serves as a bastion for the last known Zissah dark priests and Reavers that are otherwise exiled from every other village and city on Irys. To even find the temple is a feat in and of itself, due to the thick foliage and the array of dangerous jungle creatures that lurk in the area. However, making it far enough to see the temple, one is gifted with the sight of ancient madness and wicked reverie as homage is paid to not only the Lords of Chaos, but the Forgotten Ones, who the Zissah once held as gods onto themselves.
Intrusion onto the temple grounds is not taken lightly and hostility is shown to anybody coming close to it without good cause. Certainly anybody showing symbols of the Old Gods or goodly Spirits of Imarel are engaged on sight and if slain, either fed to monsters pets or reanimated in some strange and cruel way, to add to the reinforcements that ensure the secrets of the temple remain secrets. Indeed, there is no known record or documentation that details the horrors or splendors within for this very reason until very recently, when Duke Arathys Blackthorne captured the temple in an attempt to cut off Siru from what was rumored to be the burial site of the infamous Sleeping Terror.