Editing User:Bill/Magocracy of Dholavira (section)

===Religion===
As a cosmopolitan trade center with visitors from several neighboring cities, and as a center for mystical study with visitors from several neighboring planes of existence, Dholavira's middle town hosts temples and shrines for over a dozen pantheons and a hundred gods. Festivals, feasts, and holy days dot the calendar. Seldom can a week go by without priests, acolytes and the faithful of one religion or another performing a spectacle.

During the reign of the Gibil Dynasty, several temples vied for the favor of Dholavira's rulers. Most frequently the sovereign favored Pelor and would keep a priest of the god as a personal advisor. Since Quingu bestowed custodianship for the city upon the Eldrich College, many of the temples have come upon hard times.

Due to the heavy taxes levied on structures in the middle town, most temples are actually dedicated to an entire pantheon. Only Boccob, Wee Jas, Delleb, and Moquol have their own temples. As an added consequence of this taxation, divine healing is seldom free in Dholavira.

The whole of the Eldrich Council and many other members of the Eldrich College to practice one faith or another, but very few of them do so with any great show of commitment. The Lord High Magus makes a point to attend all major religious festivals and rights that he is invited to, so as not to show favor to any of them.

====Unsanctioned Cults====
In addition to the mostly benevolent religions represented by temples and shrine houses in the middle town, small groups worshiping demons, devils, and evil deities flourish in the lower town. These disruptive and antisocial organizations are officially outlawed by ruling of the eldrich council. However, in a city of one million it is often difficult to flush them out.