Callyxtus Marchitecture

Here are some examples of wonderful, famous and beautiful buildings you can find across Yeia. All of them are an example of the different architectural styles across Yeia and also examples of how the traditions and beliefs of the multiple nations and peoples that inhabited the world. Lets get started with the list!, shall we?.    1:(answering prompt 9: Exhange)  

THE GREAT MARKET OF Ymhilean  

    If you cand find something you want anywhere, you can surely find it in the Great Market of Unhelion. The biggest marketplace in all Yeia. Its a city within the city, with hundreds if not thousands of shops inside it. The merchants usually live either on the upper floors of the building where they have their shops or in the neighbourhoods around the market.  Its better to go with a local Ymhileani elf if you don't want to get lost among their buzzing streets.  Spices from the Nari lands, Silk from Seria and Blati, cotton, jewels and books from other regions of Unhellion, Beer and Amber  from the northern human realms, ceramics and wine from the Oronai world, cristals and glass jars and cups from the Republic of Valia... and even slaves!!.You get an idea of what exotic things you can find in this market.   It is said that you need more than a week to visit every single shop in Ymhilean's Great Market. Oh, one advice, haggling is a tradition here, but beware of the haggling skills of the Sun elves!!.      2: (Answering prompt 11: Sanctuary)  

The Temple of the Roses

    Formely known as Temple of our most serene lady of the Pure Water. It a temple dedicated to the goddess Tyr, the goddess of nature and was built by the Ikarian Emperor Majorian II 321 AP, so thats makes this building one of th oldest still stading at the Blatian capital. It is located in the Ullia hill overlooking the river Akres and the eastern districts of the and its mighty walls.   The place is famous for its spring that emanates very pure and cristaline waters, believed to be able to cure diseases, and its garden full of roses (thus its name). Both the water and roses are used during the Festival of the Goddess Tyr when Blatians collect water and rose petals from the church and bathe with them at the river Akres as a symbol of anual purification.   This temple was also home to a Council of the Reformed Faith in 419 AP where all the archpriests of the Ikarian Empire and its Emperor set the basis for the reunification between the two sects of the faith: Iulians and Petrines. They also stablished the unified calendar for religious festivities and the way liturgy was to be conducted at the temples, and how the statues of the gods have to be worshiped and take care of.     3: (Answering prompt 21: Worship)  

Temple of Ahira at Ymhilean

    The largest and most famous temple at the Sun elf capital. It is dedicated to the goddess of Fire, Ahira. and its located near the Royal Palace. The High Priest of the Kingdom usually performs most of his rituals and liturgies here in this temple. It is also a centre of learning, debate and theology. Alongside its corridors, couryards and colonnades you can see sages, theologians, philosophers, wizards... debating and discussing ideas about faith, magic and its relation to humans and elves... . All of this debates are held of course while there isn't praying time!.   The building is entirely covered in marble and it is also famous for its blue domes with verses of the Book of deeds and also from the Revelations of Ahira.   4: (Answering prompts 21: Education and 28: Exercise)    

Banias's Gymnasium

  As every Oronai colony, Banias has a gymnasium where its citizens can not only exercise their bodies but also their minds. The place is huge, as big as the main square or the Holy Cave complex. It was planned and built during the reign of Boros The Conqueror and has aside from the gymnastics area, a library famous for its copies of elven books about magic and history, as well as copies of the epic tale The Siege of Dorstulon, the city of the Ten Walls .   Access to the building is free, and every individual, both male and female is welcomed (humans, elves and half elves). Men and women have different schedules. Its walls display paintings by the best painters of the South that represent mythological scenes and creatures as well as people doing exercise (throwing javelings, practising boxing, jumping, running... .) Each weekend a chapter from the Siege of Dorstulon in written at the great colonnade.