Temple District

The Temple District is Surket's religious center, filled with temples, shrines, and monuments to gods of virtually every religion both active and long forgotten. Many of the temples that line the streets have changed hands many times and as such have religious symbols within them that are regularly covered up and replaced with new ones. Many buildings are over a thousand years old and are seen as having just as much historical and cultural value as they do religious, and so great care is taken to keep them how they are, even if they have symbolism which is considered heretical to the current tenants.

With a few notable exceptions, any religion may be practiced openly within the district. In order to proselytize, all one must do is obtain a permit from the Amunir family to do so. The Amunirs own all property within the district and lease the temples out to any religion that can afford them. The only temple that they have no ownership over is the Temple of the Sun, which is the property of the Pharaoh. Still, the Amunirs all have ties to the religious institutions of the city, with Ysra Amunir being the Knight-Commander of the Order of Tyron, which serve the Pharaoh. Isaac Amunir, the patriarch of the family, oversees the district as the Consul for the Council of Surket.

The Temple District is able to boast having the most religions per city block out of any other place in the world, with several calling the district their headquarters. The Cult of the Pharaoh is centered within the Temple of the Sun, a massive smooth-edge pyramid that dominates the district. Several individual gods have centers of worship here as well, such as the notorious (and sometimes infamous) Oracles of Vesilis housed within the massive spire near the cliffs. Not even the normally reclusive druids are absent from the city. The Circle of the Urban, a group of druids who harness the nature that lives within the city itself, call Faeriel's Temple, the elven god of wild places, their home. They are often seen as the black sheep of druid circles, and can usually be easily recognized by the smell of sewage and city grime that seems to follow them and by their animal companions, which tend to be pests like pigeons and rats.

Notable Locations

 * Temple of the Sun
 * Tower of Vesilis
 * Faeriel's Temple
 * Proselytization Permit Office
 * Temple of the Valkan
 * Amunir Plaza

Notable Factions

 * Cult of the Pharaoh
 * Circle of the Urban
 * Order of Tyron
 * Amunir Family