High Altar of the Moon

The High Altar of the Moon, or the “Moontower” as the lay people of the city called it, is temple to Selune in the city of Iriaebor.

Location
Just east of the High Tower of Iriaebor stands the round Moontower, a silver-and-black structure. The temple itself is built of pale marble. Graceful columns supported an intricately carved facade, behind rose a lofty, tapering spire. An elaborate frieze glimmered in the moonlight beneath the temple’s cornices, depicting a woman with flowing hair holding the rains of a chariot that rode through the sky, bearing the orb of a moon.

Interior
The entrance of the temple were massive doors of polished mahogany. Within was a long, column-lined hall. Moonlight pours through windows high in the pale walls, caught and reflected by mirrors so that the entire temple glowed with an unearthly light. A row of teakwood prayer boxes lined one wall, each large enough for a person to knell while making a prayer to the goddess, each box had a grate in the roof so that light could pour in. On the thirteenth box, by knocking a secret code on the wooden panel (three knocks, a pause, and two more knocks), it would be opened by a member of the Purple Masks Guild, and if recognized would lead the individual(s) to the Purple Masks guilds hideout.

Inhabitants
High Moonmaiden Astyaril Hulemene (CG Human Female Priest 17 (2e) ) leads faithful in eerie moonlit rituals. A friend to Harpers, Astyaril adds the only touch of romance and mystery to the lives of most Iriaebens. For that reason alone, services here are always attended. There are 36 priests and 51 followers.