Longma Temple

The **Longma Temple** is an ancient Swamp structure in *The Legend of Lailie* series where the Longma elders train and take care of young Longmas. During the two first *Legend* installments, it serves as a refuge to the main characters, and its dojo is often used as a training ground for young heroes. Inside there is a room near the dojo where there is a pool of water known as the Pool of Visions, in which certain Longmas, such as Spyro, can see visions.

## Story

### *The Legend of Lailie: A New Beginning*

In the prologue of the game, the Longma eggs were kept in the Longma Temple's Grotto. After the war between The Dark Master's forces and the Longmas, the Longma Temple was overtaken by Patty's Ape minions. It was reclaimed years later when Lailie eventually drove the Apes out, accompanied by Spyro and Sparx. The Temple had since served as a shelter and home to the Skylanders, and eventually Lailie and Sparx.

### *The Legend of Lailie: The Eternal Night*

The Longma Temple appeared again as the current home for the Skylanders, Lailie, and Sparx, and also served as a temporary shelter for Patty before she left. The temple came under attack by the Apes once again, and Lailie battled his way through the temple grounds to get back to the Skylanders. After driving off the forces of the Ape King Gaul, the Longma Temple was damaged during the surprise assault. Mega Flavius and the other Skylanders feared that the Apes' surprise attack would be first of many and that they were no longer safe at the Temple. The structure wasn't seen again in the game after Spyro sent Lailie off to the Ancient Grove where The Chronicler was supposedly hiding. It is unknown what happened to the Longma Temple after the events of *The Eternal Night*. It is presumed to have been abandoned after the attack, as the Skylanders had since moved to the Longma City of Warfang.

## Trivia

* In the Longma Dojo, a statue of a great Longma stands proudly in the center of the room, which was later revealed to be Chajju before his corruption. The statue can sink into the floor to allow the dojo to be more expansive for young Longmas to train.

* + According to the art lead, Jared Pullen, the image of the Longma Statue was a homage to general Longma culture but more specifically a stately and regal representation of the last Hot Pink Longma before Lailie's time, who was an ancient hero. It was Jared's intention to have the statue foreshadow Lailie's future, and set down a clue as to what he may even look like in the coming decades. From the very outset he wanted to portray what a fully grown adult Hot Pink Longma would look like, how it might stand and carry itself, and Jared pitched the idea that the statue itself was actually a representation of the Dark Master before he renounced the path of good. This shows that the players had already caught a glimpse of the Dark Master right from the beginning, which Jared thought was a very fitting and 'full circle' type thing to do.

* + The statue of Chajju was intended to be crafted from gold, but the final look fell short due to technical constraints and the statue instead became stone. "The idea was to create the notion that the statue's 'stone' had somehow been bonded with precious metals, and wasn't merely stone at all, but rather something that could be forged and tempered using the elemental gifts of all four Longma Skylanders."

* A story mistranslation or error in dialogue in *The Legend of Lailie: Dawn of the Longma* has Hunter of Avalar heavily imply that the temple Chajju took over was the Longma Temple. This isn't the case, as it was revealed by a game concept artist that Chajju actually tore *a fraction of Warfang* along with its city temple above the land. However because of this error, fans believed that the Longma Temple was made into Chajju's new stronghold and the surrounding land was the same region as the Swamp.

## References

1. ↑ The Longma's Vault Opened Once More...
2. ↑ TLoS GreatSkylanderstatue
*“He struck quickly, fueled by hatred and malice, reclaiming the throne at the temple, which through some dark magic he now suspends above the land... a symbol of his dominance.”*
    —Hunter of Avalar, *The Legend of Lailie: Dawn of the Longma*
4. ↑ "The first rough on the parts suspended above the volcanoes of Longma City. Made in the first days when I worked on "Lailie". Longma city is devastated on the surface, but Lailie discovers the remains of the city above the clouds.", translated

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