Look up at the High Sancta
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From: The Peripheries of Zenith
A single spire, piercing down through the Roof's apex. Locked; sealed; guarded. Within, they say, are kept the holiest of holies, bathed in violant floods.
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The higher your eyes stray, the fiercer the violant gets. […] it could never be blinding. The problem is instead seeing too much […] all the details of this sprawling sanctum-fortress war at once for your attention, picked out in terrible clarity.
Description summary:
The second paragraph varies based on Airs of Zenith.
Wiki note: Numbers unaccounted for: 23 – 25, 75
Airs of Zenith | Description |
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1 - 22 | Galleries and loggias lead into forbidding interiors. Dripstone stalactites bristle […] men and monsters etched into the roof-rock. Flutters of half-shadow betray the movements of something […] industrious and unconcerned with the world beyond. |
26 - 50 | […] a carving of a […] winged creature, sewing a book into a bookshelf […] too far away to make out the specifics […] yet they are stitched into your mind […] each barb and vane; the line of dripstone thread […] needlepoint, joining worlds together with unstoppable tenderness. |
51 - 74 | It is the stillness that makes it unbearable. Nothing moves […] but the light. It laps at the walls; shadows swim like cave-fish. The sensation of movement, without movement. Your eyes cannot settle; you try to see everything at once. |
76 - 100 | A rock falls, from […] Zenith's domed hollow. […] It's a segment of mosaic […] depicting a single letter so heavily historiated as to make it unreadable, a crowd of symbols stuffed into the empty spaces of a larger sign. It plummets past you, and is lost […] |
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