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'''The Temple of Darkness''' is some unknown ruined temple to the Dark Lords of Charôn (Modern: [[Lornon]]) from the [[ICE age|I.C.E. Age]] of GemStone III. It is only mentioned in the [[Temple of Darkness Poem]], where a stanza from it is found in the Broken Lands. In the Broken Lands it is written in [[Iruaric]], the ancient language of the [[Lords of Essaence]], in an alphabetic form which should not have existed in the [[First Era]]. The Temple of Darkness was implicitly abandoned by the end of the [[Wars of Dominion]], when the Dark Gods were imprisoned on Charôn or otherwise banished by the Lords of Orhan (Modern: [[Liabo]]).

The poem alludes to conditions which would not have existed yet when [[Uthex Kathiasas]] was still living. This is especially clear with the stanza regarding [[ICE gods#Eorgina|Orgiana]], the Goddess of Darkness, who is described as silently waiting to take her revenge on the world. This raises a number of major questions about the Dark Shrine, including how it came to be present in both locations and what that really means.

==Behind the Scenes==
The [[Temple of Darkness Poem]] is studied in depth in [[Research:The Broken Lands]]. There is a vignette in the Shadow World Master Atlas, 1st Edition (1989), where the Loremasters raid the "Temple of Night" in 450 [[Third Era]] and slay a corrupted priest named [[Nyrdru]]. This may have been in Gaalt near the [[Wall of Darkness]], and so perhaps related to a surviving follower of [[Kadaena]] known as the [[Andraax|Master of Malice]]. The theocracy of Orgiana (Modern: [[Eorgina]]) was ruled by V'rama Vair, the daughter of [[Empress Kadaena]], with the "Temple of Burning Night". This was a lesser pantheon of "Dark Godlings", presumably only a sub-pantheon of Charôn consisting of the servants of Orgiana, who were destroyed, imprisoned in meteoric ore, or banished to the [[Black Hel]]. These issues are also studied in [[Research:The Graveyard]].

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