Considering that this is the capital of an empire. If you want to gather believers with high enough status, the number must be large enough. Of course, the grandeur of the temple cannot be lost to other churches. At this time, what the church is fighting for is not miracles, but miracles. Face. At least those mortals who think they are big shots don't want to walk into a poor and shabby place and prostrate themselves on the ground before an idol of a god.
Having enough believers with high enough status means that the church can accumulate more wealth. The stronger the financial resources, the more luxurious the temple can be. This is like a spiral that develops towards both ends. , making the rich richer and the poor poorer, making it difficult to turn back.
Those churches whose financial resources are not strong enough and whose beliefs are not broad enough are naturally unable to compete with those large churches for appearance. The temples of these small churches are usually built in scattered small open spaces between large churches.
Although there is no Feng Shui theory in Lost Land, the buildings still pay attention to symmetry or a certain shape. For example, a regular pentagon or a regular hexagon. Especially the gods of the lawful camp regard symmetry and coordination as one. Such beauty. Of course, the connection between the large church temple group and other large church temple groups cannot be a perfect connection without any gaps.
They would not do this unless necessary, no matter how tense the territory is. Just like in the secular world, the territories of big countries rarely directly border each other, and there will be some small countries in the middle as buffer areas. The territory between the gods is also Almost. These scattered small open spaces not occupied by large churches have become the accommodation space for small churches in the church temple area of Nineveh Imperial City.
Most of the temples of these small churches have one hall and one courtyard, with two entrances. The front hall is for the gods, and the back hall is the living area for the priests. Of course, in terms of construction, they cannot be as gorgeous and elegant as the main halls of large churches. atmosphere.
The temple of a small church, in addition to the style of the deity itself influenced by the race of origin, also reflects the ingenuity and taste of the previous priests. The so-called style of the former may be changed by the latter.
Of course, there are some gods who don’t pay so much attention to the appearance of the temple, and they are not little-known gods. For example, the famous God of Beggars is one of the gods with the widest distribution of temples. Lost to another widespread faith, the Church of the Three Holy Lights.
The temple of the most important god only needs a shack and a few haystacks. It is too easy to build, and on the other hand, it is also because there are so many believers and they are spread all over the place.
In fact, the God of Beggars was not the God of Beggars at first. The concept he really represented was actually 'penance', which is the source of all the ascetics in the Lost World. But because that image was too close to that of a beggar, he simply became Beggars pray for someone who can beg for enough food today, and it becomes a common belief among beggars later on.
However, those real ascetics hidden in the Beggar's Church are troubles that no one wants to cause. It doesn't matter how strong they are. To use a saying from someone's hometown, those who are barefoot are not afraid of wet shoes. For those who are not afraid of wet shoes. For people with wealth, they simply cannot afford to play the ascetic style of playing with the consciousness of smashing everything to pieces, and they are not even afraid of self-mutilation.
So even if beggars are despised by most people, the god of beggars and his church still stand firm. Bullying beggars, people who live at the bottom of society, is a small daily evil committed by those with bad personalities, but no one will offend them to death. .Because they don’t know whether the person being bullied is an ascetic monk who abides by the precepts.
The fact that ascetics will endure all kinds of suffering does not mean that they will accept death calmly. When they rise up to resist, there are no moral restraints or rules such as not hurting innocent people and not bringing harm to their families. At least kindness is not among the ascetics.
Among the precepts and requirements. If they were classified by the nine well-known camps in a certain time period, they would belong to the chaotic neutral group.
As for the temple of Ko Yin, the goddess of gold coins, of course it cannot be settled in a shack like the God of Beggars. At any rate, she is also the subordinate god of the Lord of Wealth, representing the god of money. Even if it cannot be compared with those churches with deep wealth, the temple in front of us is
The temple can also be seen as the ambition of the successive priests to make it magnificent.
But it is a pity that the people who originally built all this did not seem to have considered the difficulty of subsequent maintenance. And it seems that future generations either have no intention to take care of it, or they are powerless.
The outer wall of the temple, which is full of sculptures, is now covered with various vines, and even small animals can be seen living on it. The open space in the courtyard that was supposed to be a place for believers to take a rest is instead overgrown with vines and intertwined trees. Even in the
In the most conspicuous places, you can still see discarded items piled up and left to rot. At the end of summer and in the afternoon of autumn, of course, there are also mosquitoes flying around, which is very annoying.
Walking into the temple, the mottled gold-plated statues revealed the muddy parts underneath. The glass spliced windows were already dirty. They were supposed to show colorful and dazzling lights under the light, but now they only have dim colors.
.On the altar that should have been lit with candles and placed with sacrifices, there were only lonely candlesticks and uncleaned wax tears.
If there are some cobwebs, dust, and rags swaying in the wind, someone will think that they have arrived at an abandoned temple in the mountains and forests of their hometown, such as Lanruo Temple. However, the place is kept clean and there is no arbitrary
Its desolation.
Looking at the mottled spots on the statue, someone was trying to identify whether the missing gold foil had been scraped off and exchanged for money? Does it mean that there really are gods in this world, and doing such a thing would offend those beings? Or would it?
It is said that this man is so generous that he is willing to sacrifice for his devout believers, even if he scrapes off the gold foil on his own statue.
When someone was thinking, a panicked voice came from the side, saying: "You...who are you? What are you doing here?"
Hmm, strange question. Do we look threatening? Otherwise, how could we scare people like this?
Lin looked at the aristocratic young man next to him who peed his pants. What was he doing following him?
A transvestite wearing a red phoenix robe? Well, it’s pretty normal, if you don’t consider his gender and pretentiousness.
But the big beautiful devil wearing scantily clad clothes is related to the word "sexual immorality", and can be classified as a member of sin, or at least be labeled as a disrespectful act that disrespects the gods.
As for himself, although black robes are quite conspicuous in the temple area where white robes dominate, they are not so rare that they can be directly equated with sin.
Looking back again, someone immediately understood the crux of the other person's fear. The wheels of the carriage that passed through the slaughterhouse were stained with blood and mud. Not only did a small half of the spokes become red, but they were even stained on the street.
Clear blood red wheel marks were left on it.
The two horses driving the car specially selected tall draft horses. One of the characteristics is that the parts above the horseshoes called pasterns and metacarpals have thick manes. Now this should be the same color as the horse's back and tail.
, but it was stained with red blood.
The same goes for the horses that guard the knights of the Muhashebesi family. The hoofs of each horse are like stained with red ink, like a stamp, leaving conspicuous marks on the journey.
In short, there are eight riders in this car. Regardless of whether the people who see it think they have stepped on the red soil, leaving such marks, or they have just walked away from a massacre, the messy red marks on the ground are indeed scary. There are many bad people. If they knew that it was the latter, they would probably close the door of the temple tightly and not dare to come out.
Only then did Lin look at the priests who were serving the Goddess of Gold Coins in the temple in the Imperial City of Nineveh. These people indeed responded to Efron's previous evaluation, some were old and some were young.
The older priests are afraid of being over seventy years old. In the Midland, an environment with backward nutrition and medicine, and a ferocious natural ecology, it is not easy to live to this age. In addition, the gods they serve are not based on the body. He is known for his vitality, so these old priests all look very old. It would not be surprising if they lie down in the coffin the next second.
As for the younger ones, they are probably just like the children taken in by the family. The oldest one is probably no more than eight years old. There are still a few that have to be carried by others. These children are wearing white robes that are a little yellowish, but they are not like the older ones. Like a priest, he left the temple and questioned someone with fear. The children hid in the temple, each one hiding under the window sill, peeking at him from time to time.
The only exception, and the source of the panicked voice that just spoke, was a teenage girl. She stood in front of the old priests, wearing a leather breastplate, wristbands and leggings, which were the only protection. Holding a long sword that was not easy for her to lift, she raised it horizontally with difficulty and pointed it at the group of unexpected visitors.
Thinking that he was the only one who looked normal among the people present, Lin took a few steps forward and joked: "I remember that no matter which god it is, one of the commandments of the Templars is not to use sharp weapons." Little girl, I am the magician Guy Blasch Tripwood. May I ask, in what capacity are you talking to me?"
Templar warriors generally refer to warriors appointed by the gods, and are not a military group unique to a certain god. However, because they are recognized by the gods, the status of the templar warriors is usually equivalent to that of priests, and they are qualified to represent the gods in the mortal world. their will.
However, as long as there are no special circumstances, people recognized by the gods have their own precepts and oaths that must be observed. What Lin said about "not using open weapons" is one of the precepts of most gods. The original meaning is that of the gods. The purpose of warriors is to spread faith, not to spread death. Therefore, they can raise weapons to protect the church and believers, but they are not allowed to kill with their will.
When Lin asked this question, he also wanted to know who the person in front of him was. If it had nothing to do with the church of the Gold Coin Goddess, he would just go directly to those old priests instead of wasting time on an insignificant little girl.
The previous conversation with the woman who was the emperor's personal guard, the other party's unreasonable attitude had already worn away a little bit of someone's patience. He was not sure if he was in the mood to deal with the second unreasonable person, regardless of gender.
"I..." The girl hesitated a little. But then she said firmly as if she had made up her mind: "I am a trainee templar of His Majesty Ke Yin, and my name is Lucretia."
"Lucrecia, um, what?" Lin asked the other party's last name.
The girl replied: "No, just Lucretia."
"Haha, it's really special. I don't have a surname, but I have a noble name." Lin bowed and said, "Your Excellency, trainee templar, I am here to pray to His Majesty Ke Yin. Of course, being able to meet him is the best thing.