Evensong Tower

This many-spired temple to Milil is the site of many a dignified revel attended by the haughtiest of the first folk, the wealthiest merchant families ambitious to rise in social circles, and visitors to the city who can seem rich or important enough to impress the clergy at the temple gates. Revels are evening parties, gatherings to dance, drink, murmur insults or boasts to the nearest fellow revelers, and to listen. About two of them are held per tenday. Social climbers in Berdusk view these revels as battles of wit, demeanor, and sneering but to the visitor they provide some of the best entertainment anywhere.
A fast-paced, varied program of ballads, recitations of poetry, and orations goes on in various antechambers opening into the main chancel of the temple. This main chancel serves as a dance-and-chat floor during revels. Most of the poetry recitations are long, rolling, and incomprehensible to all save scholars - in short, bad. Many orations are performances of famous speeches of the past, the texts recreated with the aid of stone tell or legend lore magics. Most of them are stirring and entertaining in the extreme. Revelers wander freely from venue to venue, taking in what they want.
From the outside, the temple resembles the fancy-tale view of a castle. It's a cluster of very tall, very slender stone towers studded with brattices (wooden parapets), linked aloft by flying bridges - which must be perilous indeed in icy winter weather or even mere high winds - and topped by high-pointed conical roofs bristling with masts that sport many-hued banners and attract many-hued lightning strikes in stormy weather.
Admission to one of these revels requires a donation of 14 gp to the temple coffers, a noble manner, and expensive clothes - so the entertainment isn't free, but it is splendid.
(1367DR Info)
The young Chantmistress of the Tower, Uluene Maertalar, whose face is as smoothly controlled as those of the best veteran card and dice gamers in Waterdeep, disapproves of serving food in the temple, but the clergy make and serve excellent mead and Halurskan wine (thick, black, nuttytasting mushroom wine devised long ago in Berdusk by the baker Halurska the Fat). Drinks are an extra 1 gp per glass, payable on the spotso beware pickpockets on the dance floor.

Type

Temple / Church

Parent Location

Berdusk