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Owen Smith (owen.smith@net-tel.co.uk)

The Church of St. Dagda

In Vamdrey, newly constructed on the ruins of the Rock of the Black-Backed
Avatar, an old Vamdreyan house of augury and copromantic divination where
(so it is said) the gull priests regularly saw their future in gigantic
mounds of seagull excrement. Expert representatives of the Pan-Tahsian armed
forces view this as having been a not innacurate prediction.

The new church replaces the old hexagonal inverted step-pyramid, with its
single steep stairway leading up beneath the fearsome visage of the gull
god, with a romanesque vaulted hexagonal chapel, made more accessible by a
more gently sloping flight of steps. The original entrance has been
converted into an Ellemine stained glass window, and the head of the gull
god knocked off and replaced by two extra sets of wings, symbolizing the
holy seraphim. On either side of the great stone staircase, stone carvings
represent, on the left, the patriarchs climbing Jacob's ladder to heaven,
and on the right, those souls encountered by Dante whilst climbing to
paradise in his "Purgatorio".

Note to Sholari: There is an easier entrance for the old and infirm round
the back.
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