the temple of Rel'Alhor

In the heart of Bran'Aredh, in the middle of its capital, Orid, lies one of the few temples in the entirety of Eam'Rel: the temple of Rel'Alhor, the sun-god. It was build long before the unification of Bran'Aredh, and is as old as the Order of Shadow, or even older.
Even though the temple has been growing and expanding, housing the many daughters of Alhor, the library of Orid and the school where young boys and girls of the Bran'Aredh nobility - and more seldom royalty - spend at least few years, its heart and centre remains as old and unchanged as the day it was built. Simple sand-stone, no roof, and a pool of clear, crystal water. Seven columns around the pool; on each of them written stories of the god in the ancient tongue. Another seven further back; on each of them the story of the founding of each city. And a third row; empty, for the future is not for the mortals to know.
Every day, at sunrise, the high-priestess of Orid leads the chants of the birth of the god, and every sunset the chants of how the twin moons saved him from death and gave him back to the people. It is in that place that the king or queen is crowned and once a year, on the longest day they must make small cuts on their hands and let drops of blood fall into the pool, and then clear water poured on the wound, so their blood will be given to the god, and his blessing received. It is there that their bodies are cleansed after they die, and then given to the god in the desert.
It is said that this is the place where the god himself almost died, the place where he gave his first blessing, the first spring. And, even though the entirety of Bran'Aredh was destroyed and claimed by the desert, it is said that so long as there is even a drop of water from the temple of Rel'Alhor in Eam'Rel, there is still hope that, as the god survived, so will Bran'Aredh be reborn.