Editing Magipunk:Setting:Atathorn (section)

= The Temple District =

The old temple-district is now home to the Church-Mills.

The first impression of entering the temple-district is a cloying sweet scent -- traces of innumerable sticks of incense burnt in the mills.  Hard on the heels of the smell is a constant, high-pitched jingling underlying all the normal city sounds -- the sound of hundreds of thousands of power-tokens being picked up, put down, charged, tested, loaded into crates, and transported.  Beneath the tinkling of the power tokens is a subsonic hum from the power of the mana being generated.

The streets of the Temple District are broad and jammed with the carts that constantly bring in uncharged tokens and leave with charged ones.  At every corner and alley lies a derelict -- the former workers of the Church-Mills, rendered empty shells by years of constant Passion use, tend to congregate here, and they are too insensate to be bullied away by the Church guards.  As long as they don't get under the cart-wheels, they're usually ignored, and usually harmless.

The architecture is old, massive stone temples now rising out of shanty-towns of newer, more hurriedly constructed wooden annexes built to house the ever-increasing administrative and worship needs of the old temples.