Ancient Temple

The Ancient Temple is a location in the Utraean Peninsula, the multiplayer world in .
==Map==
AncientTempleMap.jpg
==Description==
This dungeon is called the "Ancient Temple" when player ingress is announced in-game. This name is really generic, but fortunately, there appear to be no other ancient temples in the campaigns that invite confusion with this particular label. The temple has some mysterious features.
The dungeon connects two alpine forests, the Mt. Utrae Forest and the Mt. Elspen Forest. According to the Peninsula's official map, this design was intentional despite the forests being half-way across the peninsula from one another. The ancient temple is most likely an enchanted location, similar to the desert Pyramids, bridging this improbable distance with lost arts.
While the place is entirely inaccessible and unsuitable to new characters, it has the internal name newbie_dun. This suggests the region had some other purpose during the development of , or perhaps that it was created early on and served as a demonstration piece for building the other dungeon environments.
==Enemies==
*Braak
*Braak Mage
*Frostnid
*Frost Golem
*Ice Archer
*Ice Warrior
*Frost Warrior
*Ice Mage
*Frost Drake
==Layout==
The temple proper is a great square chamber with a spiral staircase that arcs downwards into a flooded floor. The place is lit by enchanted blue braziers, and furnished with statuary and colonnades. The topside gallery of this chamber contains 8 doors, two per side in the corners, that fan out into a dizzying labyrinth. The bottom side has a single corridor exit. The temple residents are typical cold environment enemies.
A certain snowbound chest, secreted in a small chamber below a drain elevator in the north end, is very likely to contain high level loot and magic items. A second drain elevator, located in the labyrinth, is dangerous.
The entrance from the Mount Utrae Forest descends a short flight of steps towards a suspiciously-fast lift platform, which in turn leads down to the temple's topside portion.
The temple reaches Mt. Elspen Forest via a corridor extending from the bottom portion of the complex. A dwarf quarry owner and merchant NPC, Dornek Firehammer, has fled the now-overrun Dornek's Quarry and can be found at the exit here, in the company of a legion Snow Tracker.
==Gallery==
MountUtraeTemple1.jpg|Central chamber with stairwell.
MountUtraeTemple2.jpg|The upper lobby.
MountUtraeTemple3.jpg|The very fast elevator.
AncientTempleMap.jpg|Map
AncientTempleContext.png|Regional context
Category:Locations in the Utraean Peninsula
Category:Locations
Category:Dungeons
Category:Cold regions