The Sanctuary of Lament

PATRONS: Please note that the files for this map are slightly different than the ones in the Backstage Pass. I realized I had missed a bunch of gridlines on the left side of the map and fixed them this afternoon before posting it.

This is one of the few remaining churches of the Lament of the Silver Lord – said to be the creator and protector of the two pale moons and the stars. The Silver Lord laments for the Sun, his true love denied. The church of the Lament seeks to comfort and honour the Silver Lord through hymns, rituals, and sacrifices of silver in the night.

The Lament of the Silver Lord has a hierarchical structure, with the Grand Vision (elderly, down to earth, pleasant but strict) as the leader and the Moon Singers as the clergy. The Grand Vision is claimed to be able to communicate directly with the Silver Lord, and thus guides the Moon Singers and followers with his divine will. The Moon Singers are the ones who perform the ceremonies and rituals, and they are taught the skills and formulae of the lunar magic that flows from the Silver Lord.

The church proper is a two-story structure with a smaller basement. The left side of the structure is the church & temple proper with pews, a small shrine off to the side, and a raised area for the Moon Singers to guide rituals. The grand stairs lead up to this area, but there is also a ramp off to one side for transporting in heavy materials as well as for those of the faith who find the stairs difficult. The right side of the structure is a library on the ground floor, and dormitory above.

Beneath the library is a basement with storage space for records (a lot of historical records of the movements of celestial bodies is kept here), and a pair of large rooms that are used as community spaces for various assemblies of both the faithful and for other groups needing a meeting space.

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 9,300 x 15,600 pixels in size (31 x 52 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for the recommended 10′ squares that work with this design) – so resizing it to either 2,170 x 3,640 or 4,340 x 7,280 pixels, respectively.

https://dysonlogos.blog/2024/01/19/the-sanctuary-of-lament/