Founding Temple
Each cult of Set has its origin in a Founding Temple. The most influential and respected are under the stewardships of Hierophants.
There are hundreds of smaller, unknown Founding Temples, each with several sub-temples and hierarchies. The list below includes the most famous and/or influential Temples still active. Even inactive Temples are valuable assets of arcane knowledge and historic records of the early struggle of the Setites.
Known Founding Temples
In Egypt
- Ombos, located at Naqada, former resting place of the Setite Antediluvian[1]
- Palace of Veils, located at El Kharga, origin of the Cult of Taweret, resting place of an apocryphal childe of Set Taweret,[1] and under the leadership of her grandchilde Nebsemi[2]
- Arena of Thunder, located in Abu Simbel, origin of the Cohort of Wepwawet, resting place of an apocryphal childe of Set Wepwawet[1]
- Court of Miracles, located in Alexandria, an all-female cult led by an unnamed methuselah (possibly Maatkare or Nefertiti), known for its impartiality in cult politics[3]
- Typhoeum, an abandoned temple of the Trismegistans also in Alexandria, still acts as a repository of ancient lore[1]
- Court of Steel and Sky, located at Aswan, one of the most modern Founding Temples[3]
- Garden of Asps, located at Memphis, once a center of the Road of Sin under the stewardship of the methuselah Sekhemkare, largely deserted in modern nights[1][4]
- Dream Court, located at Cairo, origin of the Path of Ecstasy and the House of Eclipse, resting place of the Sleeping Lord,[3] and under the joined leadership of Kahina and Izzat al-Khunzir
- Fire Court, located at Luxor, center of Typhonian orthodoxy under the leadership of Neferu[3][5]
- Red Temple, located in Thebes within modern Luxor, now largely deserted[1]
- Court of Dust and Bones, located in Wadi El Natrun, originally a center for arcane mystics, recently vanished[3]
- Crocodile Temple, located in Faiyum, origin of the Abd'al-Sobek, resting place of an apocryphal childe of Set Sobek[1]
Africa
- Labyrinth of Bones, located at Tunis, repository of hundreds of torpid vampires salvaged from the salted earth of Carthage[1]
- Descending Aerie, located in Tangier, Morocco, famous for its carved walls that facilitate a howl from the winds not unlike a human voice which praises Set[1]
- House of Set, located in Uganda near Lake Victoria, rumored to house the first childe of Set, Nakhthorheb[6]
- Temple of Damballah, located at Oyo in modern Nigeria, origin of the Children of Damballah, semi-independent from the main Clan[1]
Europe
North America
- Red Hook Temple in New York City, formed in 1893 by Trismegistans as one of the first temples on the North American continent[7]
Unnamed Temples
- The temple of Siwa in the Dark Ages, under the leadership of Tenermentu, dedicated to prophecy[8]
- A temple in Abydos, destroyed during the Persian occupation of Egypt by Assamites[9]
- A temple located somewhere in the Louisiana bayou in the Modern Nights, one of the greatest temples in North America and allied with the local Black Spiral Dancer Garou[10]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 VTM: Clanbook: Followers of Set Revised, p. 45-46
- ↑ VTM: Nights of Prophecy, p. 26
- 1 2 3 4 5 VTM: Cairo by Night, p. 148
- ↑ DAV: Road of Sin, p. 37
- ↑ VTM: Giovanni Chronicles III: The Sun Has Set, p. 111-115
- ↑ VTM: Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom, p. 48
- ↑ VTM: Clanbook: Followers of Set Revised, p. 32
- ↑ VTDA: Libellus Sanguinis 3: Wolves at the Door, p. 87
- ↑ VTM: Clanbook: Followers of Set Revised, p. 61
- ↑ VTM: Clanbook: Setites, p. 21
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