The frescoes of Kalengad
Since it was founded by a religious convent, ✝ Kalengad was at the center of kalendic faith. In 312.II, to honour this faith in the city that beared the name of the Lord, the Order had launched an impressive construction project.
To welcome more believers, and to reach the grandeur of Kal's design, a new temple had been designed. It was to be four cords and a half in height, and six cords in length. The building took almost two hundred years, and seven architects have participated in its construction.
It had the usual shape of the ring and the staff, but the true marvel was not the building itself. It was inside, on the ring's walls, that was deployed the true beauty of this place. All around the round nave, were huge frescoes that related the story of Kal, directly translated from the Holy Kalendic Books. The artists, whose names have been forgotten since, had worked for more than a century on these massive scenes: the inner walls were smooth from bottom to two cords high, and clear of any other ornaments apart from four narrow, decorated windows. And the whole surface had been painted with exquisite details, like the bird's feathers or a child's freckles. Even the scenes' backgrounds showed existing landscapes that had been replicated to perfection. The scenes represented in disorder the ten main chapters of the Kalendic Lessons: of purpose, of citizenship, of love and family, of judgment, of war... Between the scenes where other, smaller ones. Those smaller scenes depicted extracts of the second book: Words and Dialogues.
The painters had used an impressive range of colors, with mainly natural pigments that wouldn't last for a very long time, so every century, the Order would have painters redo the whole frescoes to bring back some colour on top of the previous one. The frescoes were the pride of Kalengad, and the pride of the Order. Unfortunately, this work of art which was to be kept forever, saw its disappearance in the total destruction of the city. In 776.II, the first massive raid by the Magissens targeted the Holy city, and managed to destroy it to the ground. With no survivors and not a single wall standing, the magnificent frescoes were turned to ash. Only a single stone covered with a small part of the frescoes was retrieved and brought back to Lemiit by the Service . This infinitesimal fragment of what once was a gigantic frame had on it the eye of Kalendos, from the second scene. And the very fact that his eye was the one fragment that survived was a blessing for the kalendic cult. After this horrifying cataclysm that destroyed the heart of the order, Kal's eye was still watching over his people. The eternal had not been lost in the destruction, and was here to give hope to the people in these dark times. The fragment of the frescoes has since been declared sacred by the sactus, and rests in the High Temple of Lemiit for the believers to come talk and pray to the eye of the lord.
To welcome more believers, and to reach the grandeur of Kal's design, a new temple had been designed. It was to be four cords and a half in height, and six cords in length. The building took almost two hundred years, and seven architects have participated in its construction.
It had the usual shape of the ring and the staff, but the true marvel was not the building itself. It was inside, on the ring's walls, that was deployed the true beauty of this place. All around the round nave, were huge frescoes that related the story of Kal, directly translated from the Holy Kalendic Books. The artists, whose names have been forgotten since, had worked for more than a century on these massive scenes: the inner walls were smooth from bottom to two cords high, and clear of any other ornaments apart from four narrow, decorated windows. And the whole surface had been painted with exquisite details, like the bird's feathers or a child's freckles. Even the scenes' backgrounds showed existing landscapes that had been replicated to perfection. The scenes represented in disorder the ten main chapters of the Kalendic Lessons: of purpose, of citizenship, of love and family, of judgment, of war... Between the scenes where other, smaller ones. Those smaller scenes depicted extracts of the second book: Words and Dialogues.
The painters had used an impressive range of colors, with mainly natural pigments that wouldn't last for a very long time, so every century, the Order would have painters redo the whole frescoes to bring back some colour on top of the previous one. The frescoes were the pride of Kalengad, and the pride of the Order. Unfortunately, this work of art which was to be kept forever, saw its disappearance in the total destruction of the city. In 776.II, the first massive raid by the Magissens targeted the Holy city, and managed to destroy it to the ground. With no survivors and not a single wall standing, the magnificent frescoes were turned to ash. Only a single stone covered with a small part of the frescoes was retrieved and brought back to Lemiit by the Service . This infinitesimal fragment of what once was a gigantic frame had on it the eye of Kalendos, from the second scene. And the very fact that his eye was the one fragment that survived was a blessing for the kalendic cult. After this horrifying cataclysm that destroyed the heart of the order, Kal's eye was still watching over his people. The eternal had not been lost in the destruction, and was here to give hope to the people in these dark times. The fragment of the frescoes has since been declared sacred by the sactus, and rests in the High Temple of Lemiit for the believers to come talk and pray to the eye of the lord.
by Furilax
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