Dedicate Temple [3504]

Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (Oct 4 2000)

### E.11.4: Dedicate Temple [3504]

      Usage:  USE 3504
      Requires: 500 gold
      Time to learn: 14 days.
      Time to use: 7 days.
      Piety to use: 5.

The Dedicate Temple prayer dedicates a new temple to the priest's god. In a week long ceremony, the priest prays himself into a religious ecstasy and then blesses the structure, inscribes it with various holy symbols, and decorates it with icons. The decorations and other required implements cost 500 gold.

A temple may only be dedicated if it has never been dedicated before (i.e., it is newly built) and if it is in the proper holy terrain. The priest must be the building owner (i.e., the topmost noble in the structure) during the dedication ceremony. There may be only one temple (of any particular religion) in any location.

Once dedicated, a temple may only be entered by stacks headed by an appropriate priest, although they may still be attacked or razed from outside.