I didn't say "Dara Happa", I said "southern Peloria". I know quite well that there is a big difference.
I have never seen a map showing the Ralian Sun Dome Temple -- can you be more specific as to which "big map in the office"? And, since this map is unpublished and probably drawn when Greg still believed in the Monomyth, I find no reason to believe such a place still exists, barring a good reason for it to exist.
Since the Sun Dome Temple ruins in Dragon Pass and Prax were founded in the mid to late Second Age, and Yelmalio the human god is but 60 or so years old, I do not believe anything even remotely related to a Sun Dome Temple could possibly exist in Ralios, as we understand the term.
There could well be some sort of solar temple in northern Ralios, a remnant which has somehow survived for 1000 years cut off from Dara Happa. But to call it a Sun Dome Temple is a misnomer which implies links which simply cannot be present, in any way, shape, or form -- no link to the Second Age cult(s) of the Sun Dome Temples, and no link to Yelmalio. This temple may have a similar shape (square base, domed roof, since that shape was first used sometime around the year 150 S.T., per GRoY, Ivory edition), but I don't think similar shape alone should justify calling such a temple a "Sun Dome Temple."
I therefore see no reason to call this temple (if it exists) a Sun Dome Temple. Call it a Nysalorian Temple, if you like, it is a lot more accurate than Sun Dome.
IMO.
Philip Hibbs
Picturesque is pronounced (in my part of California, anyways) as
Pik-chur-esk.
Stephen Martin
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