Temple Brothel

The Temple Brothel in Letheras was a three-story tenement, slightly set back from the adjoining buildings and looking much older than everything else on the street. Annual membership for, what was the oldest brothel in the land, was ten thousand docks according to 'rumour'. Queen Janall frequented the place a few times a year. It was run by Matron Delisp and she employed at least thirty 'thugs' to keep the peace.Midnight Tides, Chapter 10, UK MMPB p.361/362
:The front facing held a carved façade around two square, inset columns of dusty marble. Decidedly female demons in bas-relief, contorted and writhing in a mass orgy, crowded the panels, and atop the columns crouched stone gargoyles with enormous breasts held high and inviting.Midnight Tides, Chapter 10, UK MMPB p.361
Upon entering, the first room was two paces wide, four deep with a door at the far end and the walls hidden behind lush tapestries depicting erotic scenes. The chamber reached through the next door was dominated by a steep staircase which began almost immediately beyond the doorway. Going round that staircase, a plush waiting room was found with thick padded sofas along the walls on the side and a single high-backed chair at the far wall.Midnight Tides, Chapter 10, UK MMPB p.364/365 The inside of the temple contained a proliferation of breast depictions, with wall panels, ceilings, wooden railings, and even the floor being 'lumpy'.Midnight Tides, Chapter 10, UK MMPB p.366
==In Midnight Tides==
Tehol Beddict and Bugg went to the brothel to extract Shurq Elalle who had taken up employment with Matron Delisp after she was restored by Selush. As they were entering, the executioner was leaving - according to Shurq his 'big axe was pathetic compensation'. Matron Delisp was happy to see them leaving with Shurq as her popularity had upset the other girls in the house.Midnight Tides, Chapter 10, UK MMPB p.361-368
==Notes and references==
Category:Letheras