Resting Room Location: The Church of the Key is a stone church located in a prosperous region in Alenroux. Founded by Liem just before the Advocate’s trial, the church has become his resting place for his long sleep. Visitors to the church can find him laid out in the inner sanctum, watched over by acolytes.
Description: Liem is laid out on a bier in the candle-filled inner sanctum, in a sleeping-beauty-style glass coffin, still dressed in the priest’s robes he was wearing when he passed out for the Oracle Trial. On the fabric-covered surface surrounding the coffin, offerings are crowded about in the form of coins, keys, and other items of value. Thanks to Liem receiving periodic baths from his caretakers, he has earned an association with compasses as well due to the shard on his chest. Prosperous residents also like to leave examples of their work there, such as a spool of dyed thread or a small bag of grain. Like the rest of the church, this room is constantly filled with bright light that makes the interior gleam.
The church collects offerings periodically from around the shrine to keep it from becoming too cluttered, but over the decades, the steady influx of visitors to the shrine has only grown, and the inpouring of offerings with it.
Purpose: Unfortunately for Liem, visitors to his shrine definitely fall into the “culty and obsessed” category. His sleeping form has become something like a holy relic for the Church of the Key, and church attendees regularly visit the sleeping founder to either pray to Abadar on his behalf, or even to pray to him like a saint or an idol. His work in Alenroux prior to the beginning of the Repose has lent Liem an association with the expanding of frontiers: plucking knowledge from obscurity and making order from the wild and untamed. As a result, worshippers commonly pray to him for guidance in times of adversity.
Caretaker(s): Liem’s snoozing body is carefully maintained by the same acolytes who care for the rest of the inner sanctum. His glass coffin is unlocked periodically so acolytes can trim his hair and his beard—which someone made the decision to let grow in at some point.
The current head of the church is Father Thengill, a charismatic dwarf who has been leading the church since only a handful of years after its founding. Though the congregation has long awaited the day the church’s founder would return to guide them, in practice the church is Father Thengill’s, and most automatically look to him as the church’s spiritual leader and authority.
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Description: Liem is laid out on a bier in the candle-filled inner sanctum, in a sleeping-beauty-style glass coffin, still dressed in the priest’s robes he was wearing when he passed out for the Oracle Trial. On the fabric-covered surface surrounding the coffin, offerings are crowded about in the form of coins, keys, and other items of value. Thanks to Liem receiving periodic baths from his caretakers, he has earned an association with compasses as well due to the shard on his chest. Prosperous residents also like to leave examples of their work there, such as a spool of dyed thread or a small bag of grain. Like the rest of the church, this room is constantly filled with bright light that makes the interior gleam.
The church collects offerings periodically from around the shrine to keep it from becoming too cluttered, but over the decades, the steady influx of visitors to the shrine has only grown, and the inpouring of offerings with it.
Purpose: Unfortunately for Liem, visitors to his shrine definitely fall into the “culty and obsessed” category. His sleeping form has become something like a holy relic for the Church of the Key, and church attendees regularly visit the sleeping founder to either pray to Abadar on his behalf, or even to pray to him like a saint or an idol. His work in Alenroux prior to the beginning of the Repose has lent Liem an association with the expanding of frontiers: plucking knowledge from obscurity and making order from the wild and untamed. As a result, worshippers commonly pray to him for guidance in times of adversity.
Caretaker(s): Liem’s snoozing body is carefully maintained by the same acolytes who care for the rest of the inner sanctum. His glass coffin is unlocked periodically so acolytes can trim his hair and his beard—which someone made the decision to let grow in at some point.
The current head of the church is Father Thengill, a charismatic dwarf who has been leading the church since only a handful of years after its founding. Though the congregation has long awaited the day the church’s founder would return to guide them, in practice the church is Father Thengill’s, and most automatically look to him as the church’s spiritual leader and authority.