Temple of the Bells
Located directly across the square from the Old Dono's Palace in Wargun, the temple of the bells takes its name from the intricate collection of bells that it houses. Built from designs found in the Nerrid National Library that had been discarded centuries ago as "too simple", the Zennonaize craftsmen that constructed the temple and its bells spent nearly two generations on the work at the turn of the 6th century.
Housed in tower some six stories above the square below, more than a score of bells, cast from the finished bronze, dangle. They range in size and tone from the deep tones of two massive bells, nearly the size of a bison, to smaller, head sized ones capable of sonorous high notes. The bells themselves sit on a contraption made of heavy ropes, gears, and pulleys. Each day at dawn, high noon, and sunset, a trio of acolytes to Anderi pull the great chords that cause the bells to beginning ringing, a sequence that takes nearly two hundred hearbeats to run to completion and, as it is controlled by the sequence in which the three chords are pulled, varies depending upon the hour The tower itself is designed to amplify the sounds and it is said that when the bells ring on Kingsday to call the faithful to worship, they can be heard as far away as the Burnt Quarter.
The rest of the temple follows the standard patterns one would expect to see in a temple to the Lord of Light. Filled with stained glass and including a skylight that allows bathes the chambers in the purest of light at high noon, it is neither the most ornate of temples nor the plainest. Its is, however, one of the largest, with space for nearly five hundred worshipers though its pews are rarely more than half full except for the most important of Light's holidays.