Agora and Ephara Basilea

The agora of Oxus is famous for the exoticness of its products. Fruits from distant lands, strange fish, fabrics from distant polis, wines from beyond Skola...
The tastes of the richest inhabitants of the village are generally extravagant and many seek to surprise and show off their sophisticated tastes. Emerfero "the receipt" brings spices (and they say poisons) from even beyond Lindus. Fithara "the long one" brings daily plants cultivated by returnees from the Asphodel peninsula. The satyr Peroclates, uniquely adapted to city life, boasts unique fruits, grown on tress blessed by Karametra herself. Competition for the exquisite sometimes borders on the ridiculous, and when rumor has it that some merchant wants to offer a big feast, or a particularly flashy symposium, the exaggerations can manage to surprise foreigners.
Presiding over this daily spectacle, the Temple of Ephara Basilea has here its invocation mainly dedicated as protector of Tyre and Kyanios. The temple keeps the same elegant aesthetics of the Mausoleum of the Kings. The temple is in fact called Basileon by the inhabitants of Oxus and honors the goddess as protector of her champions. Images of the goddess bestowing magic on the kings are shown on both pediments. The interior is a huge reliquary of scrolls protected by magic, displayed on the walls in exquisite displays made of marble high reliefs. All these writings are supposed to be the original handwritings of the goddess herself in which she showed the fundamentals of magic to the kings. The truth is that many of the texts kept in the Pyrgnos of Meletis are attributed the same authorship. The pilgrims who come to the temple are usually thaumaturges who come to the temple to study the text on display, so their authenticity seems proven. A contingent of about twenty members of the Reverent Army protects the temple, the Agora, and the Mausoleum.