Beneath the Temple of Qón (Patreon)

The basements beneath the Temple of Qón were repurposed from another structure during the last Ditlana (a tradition of tearing down and rebuilding the city in order to make room for change – especially important for the large temples and clanhouses as they fall in and out of favour). At one time this was the heart of a massive set of smelters & forges before the nearby iron mine was exhausted. This is evidenced by the large ceramic ventilation system that remains down here – at one time temple slaves would spin a series of fans in the main tank (in the upper centre area of the sub-level 1 map) in order to bring in and propel air throughout the complex. The fans and machinery are long gone, but many of the pipes remain and can be accessed from various points (including three small grated entry points in the middle of the floor of the main temple above).

Sub-level 1 can be reached by either of the two ramps from the temple above and contains many archives and a small barracks for lowly temple workers, as well as the central tank for the old ventilation system. Access to the lower level is via stairs on the west side, or a ramp linking to the same chamber as the heavy cargo ramp on the upper level – the chambers attached to these two ramps on the east side are used for storage of heavy goods and supplies.

Sub-level 2 is divided into two distinct sections. The east side is accessed via the ramp from above and contains again more shelving and often stores additional goods from the temple of Belkhánu. It is home to the temple’s cisterns that collect rain water from the temple roof and the roofs of nearby structures. The west side is accessed via the stairs near the barracks above and provides an accessway into the deeper undercity that is kept locked with a small guard room to raise the alarm should something dangerous attempt to make entry this way.

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 10,200 x 13,200 pixels in size (34 x 44 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for the recommended 10′ squares that work with this design) – so resizing it to either 2,380 x 3,080 or 4,760 x 6,160 pixels, respectively.

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