Connects to: 24.18, 29.14.09, 29.14.28 and 36.09.
The City of Shuttered Windows has no truck with divinities that rival or oppose Alberon. However, there is room in the faith for a celebration of the god’s helpers, lovers, progeny and saints. The Temple Indivisible calls this mile-long road the Avenue of Preternatural Agents, but to most it is the Street of Small Gods.
These small gods are of varied origin and mood. Some are local deities co-opted as saints or children of Alberon. Others are foreign imports, made tolerable to the Temple by a thin veneer of orthodoxy. Many, however, are legitimate historical figures or at least inventions of the faithful.
Preachers and altars line the street. Priests offer benedictions and heretics preach under the auspices of particular preternatural agents—with the futile hope that this will shield them from the wrath of the Temple. Mystics initiate visitors into their mystery cults and soothsayers read fortunes in the entrails of night cattle.
There is also food and entertainment to be had here: plays and musical performances, roasted nuts and baked goods, and the so-called handmaidens and princes of Alberon who offer services that cleverly avoid violating the Heresies (29.14.09).
Connection:
- The Tiamatan Revival is preached here (29.14.28).
- One of these small gods is Jahbulon, who speaks to an exiled necromancer (24.18).
- This street must lead out the North Gate as according to the Reluctant Temple of Alberon the god drove his chariot to the North Gate via this street
Hooks:
- Why are these Small Gods permitted while the Little Gods are not (36.09)?
- Which small gods are prominent here?
- What services do the handmaidens and princes offer?
- What mystery cults operate in the City?
- What radical messages are preached here?