Crystal Spire
The Crystal Spire, formerly known as the Bone Castle, was the joint divine realm of Kelemvor and Jergal. It was located in the City of the Dead, in the Fugue Plane.
Architecture
The spire was made of glimmering transparent rock.
In the World Tree and World Axis cosmologies, the tower stood at the center of the City of Judgment, around which stood the Wall of the Faithless. From the Spire, Kelemvor judged the dead who had not been claimed by any deity. Those who were judged by Kelemvor as the False were sentenced to spend eternity in the city, suffering the appropriate punishment in accordance with their crimes. The Faithless were sentenced to be plastered into the Wall for eternity until they were absorbed into the Wall itself.
The City of Judgment stood in the Fugue Plane and was the location where the dead waited to be claimed by their deities.
History
The realm was originally known as the Bone Castle and was the divine realm the Netherese deity of the dead, Jergal, who ruled the domain from the Bone Throne. According to legend he was challenged by three powerful mortals and relinquished his divine portfolio to them. The Bone Castle was taken over by Myrkul. It was located in the middle of a realm of the dead known as the City of Strife. During the Time of Troubles, the realm was taken over by Cyric, who had assumed Myrkul's original portfolio and took over the entire city as his realm. When Cyric read from the Cyrinishad in the Year of the Banner, 1368 DR, he lost control of his realm and was driven away by Kelemvor, who took control of the realm and assumed much of Cyric's portfolio.
Kelemvor's first act upon seizing control of the realm was to change it into a gleaming tower of crystal, as a symbol of fairness and transparency. He renamed it the Crystal Tower, later also changing the surrounding city's name to City of the Dead.
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