Temple of Darkness

The Temple of Darkness is some unknown ruined temple to the Charon (Lornon) pantheon that contained the same passage regarding Morgu (Marlu) as found in The Broken Lands. It was implicitly abandoned at the end of the Wars of Dominion, and alluded to conditions that did not exist until a few centuries after the death of Uthex Kathiasas. The way it portrayed several of the Dark Gods deviated significantly from their I.C.E. Age theology. It is not clear whether it is related to the Temple of Night which fell to the Loremasters in 450 Third Era, which might have been in Gaalt near the Wall of Darkness, and so may have been related to another surviving follower of Kadaena called the Master of Malice. "Morgu lyxatis kort" can be plausibly translated as "Morgu, Master of Malice."

Behind The Scenes

The Temple of Darkness is only mentioned in the poem that was released as one of the documents giving historical background for The Broken Lands. The Dark Gods were extra-planar beings who had arrived on the moon Charon, which was only the size of an asteroid, in 450 Second Era as an accidental consequence of dormant Lord of Essaence gateways interacting with the unnatural comet Sa'kain. The implication is that they were fashioned by the Empress Kadaena on a plane of existence parallel to the dark side of the moon and were somehow banished there at the end of the First Era.