Temple of the False Serpent


 * For the episode, see Temple of the False Serpent.

Inside the small snake village on the island of Urukaxl is the Temple of the False Serpent. It was built in honor of Uk'otoa and later taken over by yuan-ti who rededicated it to The Cloaked Serpent.

Description
The temple is a five-sided pyramid that levels at top, on each side is a stair to the top and a massive stone structure on the bottom. The stonework and the construct of this entire temple is very old and very simple. At the top of the temple is a worship terrace with statues, a tablet, a table, and a trap door. The torch-bearing statues of snakes are sitting near the corners. On top of the statues is a golden idol with a carved divot on the inside where the torch burns and where ceremonial sacrifices take place. The heavy stone tablet is about 12-foot by six-foot and rests directly in the center. There are metal rings bolted with metal rivets to the sides. The stone itself appears to be stained with a variety of various shades of stain. The trap door has a handle built on it and a latch that locks behind itself. It leads to the inside the temple into a pentagram chamber.

Pentagram chamber
This chamber is partway down from where it is on the surface. It is built in a diamond-shape with green growth in the corners. There are six-inch hole in each corner in the walls that leads to a tunnel that slowly descends downward. Inside the chamber is a staircase, a fountain, and two designed load-bearing pillars. The walls are decorated with a lot of intricate carvings and additional stone to represent snake creatures surmounting and a great snake god. The iconography in this chamber is based on Zehir, the Cloaked Serpent, and the imbuing of their power into the snake followers and giving them mutations. There are people going into this metamorphosis and transforming into a number of the larger snake. Underneath the carvings there is the older stone of the temple.

One of the steps is trapped turning the stairs into a 45-degree angle slide, after a few minutes it reverts to its initial state. In the center, is a raised platform with a two-tiered fountain with brackish and green water trickling off the sides trough four small little grooves in to holes through the floor. The fountain basin, has two reliefs of snakes coiled sitting underneath the water. One has empty eyes, the other has an empty eye socket and a dull gray eye that remains. When the eye socket are filled with rubies the fountain shifts, and begins to slowly spiral down below and gives way to the roof of a chamber below.

The Mighty Nein, Avantika, and Jamedi enter the temple in their search for the next stage to release the seals of Uk'otoa. Upon entering Nott triggers the trap on the staircase and they all start sliding down. When they land they are immediately noticed by four snakelike creatures.