Temple of the Lord of Light

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The Temple of the Lord of Light in Volantis is a temple dedicated to the god R'hllor, the Lord of Light. The Temple is protected by a private army known as the Fiery Hand. Its High Priest is Benerro.

About

Prior to the construction of the temple, the site was a great plaza. The date of its construction is not known. The temple is an enormity of pillars, steps, buttresses, bridges, domes, and towers flowing into one another as if they had all been chiseled from one colossal rock. It looms high like Aegon’s High Hill.

The temple is so enormous that even Tyrion upon first seeing it is stunned by its size. He thinks it must it must be about three times the size of the Great Sept of Baelor in King's Landing. A hundred hues of red, yellow, gold, and orange meet and meld in the temple walls, dissolving one into the other like clouds at sunset. [1]

The temple’s slender towers twist ever upward, frozen flames dancing as they reach for the sky. Fire turned to stone, Tyrion thinks. Huge night fires burn beside the temple steps, and between them the High Priest begins to speak. He stands atop a red stone pillar, joined by a slender stone bridge to a lofty terrace when the lesser priests and acolytes stand.

Recent Events

A Dance with Dragons

In Volantis, thousands of slaves and freedmen crowd the temple plaza to hear Benerro shriek of bleeding stars and a sword of fire that will cleanse the world. [2]

Tyrion and Ser Jorah stop to listen to Benerro preach at the Temple. The great plaza is packed almost solid. Every eyes is on the high priests save Tyrion’s and Ser Jorah’s. As Benerro speaks shouts erupt from the crowd. Women are weeping and men are shaking their fists. Tyrion has a bad feeling about it. The atmosphere reminds him of the day Myrcella sailed for Dorne and the riot that boiled up as they made their way back to the Red Keep. [1]

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