Here are a couple of notes as guidelines for now. Sorry for their brevity.
Quick synopsis:
Golden Age
Yelm raised the first ziggurat when he touched down: Selshena. It set the
standard for temples. They are square based and stepped, usually with a
spiralling path giving it its stepped look. All Yelm temples include a
temple to Lodril inside their square base and include an altar to Dayzatar
on its top.
Likewise all the prehistoric and ancient Lodril temples have a temple to
Yelm on its top, but Lodril temples are most often NOT spiralled about with
a single path, but are stepped in levels. And of course, inside they are
much more complex and reflect the complexity of the inner Lodrilite cults.
Cities were geometrically organized, nicely planned with whitewashed
multi-story buildings, public works etc. Generally, these were made on a
cyclopean scale.
And of course they were just surrounded by the squalor of those ramshackle
(square) Lodrilite buildings and (round) Orian superhuts.
Note that sacred statuary from this periods is not made by people, but is
the precise body that a god took, or exactly the thing a goddess made, etc.
Kazkurtum
Ends all that.
Jenarong Era
The crude ruins and rough approximations of the Mythic Age are reconstructed.
Khordavu
Extensive use of stone buildings, corbelling,
Glazed tiles are extensively for freizes, etc.
Nysalor Interlude
A brief experiment at creativity terrorizes Dara Happan architects and
artists into a permanent state of conservatism. Nonetheless innovations
enter. (almost always from Pelanda, which flaunts its artistry and
creativity). The dominant Dara Happan culture always makes up the tale of
how they innovated this thing because the gods or heroes told them too,
etc. but in fact originality comes from Pelanda
Erzanestyu Era.
Tessuric style temples is column and lintel construction. Pillar towers
popular in Yuthuppa. Free standing sculpture.
Desdillan period.
Desdillus was the first sculptor to work in stone, so that it would live
during worship. This is a major change in style and materials.
Rekalic style architecture is mainly larger, changes in decorative styles.
Then several centuries of something that looks a lot like Greek style architecture whose sequence is broken by the Spolites, dragons and Carmanians at different times.
Early Lunar Period (112,250)
First arched vaults, domes, called Maertanic style.
Later Lunar
Carmanian (ie, Doric) style temples spread during rebuilding after SS, the
"Recovery Style."
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