High Priest of Burn (Darujhistan)

The High Priest of Burn led the Temple of Burn in Darujhistan. He was a gaunt, sad-faced man who was deeply melancholic, perhaps because the cult of Burn was fading in Darujhistan as a result of the Sleeping Goddess having slept too long.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US TPB p.140 He smiled like a man who had forgotten what real smiling signified. He appreciated the poetry of religious ritual.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.171
His cousin owned a shop near Quip's Bar.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.245
==Temple of Burn==
The temple was located in the Daru District not far from the last remaining section of wall leading to the Gadrobi District.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.168/170 It was built of plain limestone walls that had since been covered in graffiti, including blockish lists of prayers, elliptical sigils, obscure local symbols, and raw curses. The base of the outside wall was lined by a gutter clogged in rubbish and occupied by rats.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.170 
The temple's formal entrance was a descending set of stairs leading to a landing flooded ankle-deep with rainwater. Inside, a short corridor with a dripping ceiling led to a broader transept with a dingy mosaic floor. From there began another corridor lined with niches containing various holy objects, including misshapen chunks of raw ore, crystals of white, rose and purple quartz and amethyst, starstones, amber, copper, flint and petrified wood and bones. This led to a colonnaded main chamber. Where an altar should have been was a smoking crevasse leading to Burn's Gate, which appeared as molten rock seemingly twenty spans below. The molten rock was actually in another realm or else it would have had a catastrophic effect on Darujhistan's natural gas supply.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.170-172 
==In Toll the Hounds==
Mappo Runt had a driving need to rejoin his long-time companion, Icarium, on the distant continent of Lether.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 3, US TPB p.85/88 The Trell made his way to the Temple of Burn, where he was greeted by the High Priest--who already knew who Mappo was, how and when he had arrived in Darujhistan, and what he wanted from Burn and why. The High Priest, after an unsuccessful attempt to discourage the Trell from the perilous path of "walking the veins of the earth", told Mappo to follow him through the Temple as a ritual was (in fact) already being prepared to accommodate Mappo's need to walk "Burn's Path" (i.e., the Warren of the land, Tennes) to get to Lether as quickly as possible. The ritual involved bathing Mappo in blood so that he would survive passage through the gate.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US TPB p.141 
However, after three failed attempts to complete the ritual, the High Priest had to admit he and his (equally doleful) acolytes had failed Mappo due to Ardatha's interference and the Trell would have to use another method to get to Lether.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US TPB p.197 As it happened, the High Priest was able to suggest to Mappo another form of transportation, which involved the Trell being conveyed to Lether by the Trygalle Trade Guild.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US TPB p.198 After the High Priest had led the Trell to where Master Quell and his fellow Guild shareholders waited, he left Mappo with the remark that the Trell would have a long, tedious walk ahead of him if the plan to use the Trygalle Trade Guild did not work out.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US TPB p.201
==Notes and references==
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