The Earth Shrine
The Ruined Temple was what everyone called it these days. Everyone who knew the truth, at least.
Once a glorious bastion of the servants of the immortal gods, the former Great Temple had clearly seen better days.
The reason for that was because a group of ambitious and daring upstarts not only had the temerity to rebel against the Five Scrolls Compact, but actually succeeded in their attempts to break away!
Ordinarily, the powerful rebel strike forces should have never been able to reach the Great Temple as it was known at the time.
This was because this sanctified domain was located in a pocket space that was nigh-inaccessible to anyone.
The only keyholders who could gain passage were those that had been granted the authority through the Sacred Scrolls.
For a long time, the Compact saw nothing wrong with this arrangement. Its leaders had become increasingly more powerful as humanity expanded during the heydays of the Age of Conquest.