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* The Upper Rooms- Mortal worshipers of the Nowheres that risk the Temple generally agree '''The Upper Rooms''' are the "safest" rooms in the Temple due to their close proximity to reality. These are the rooms of the Temple where the mortals congregate, holding services in empty halls or wandering alone into the dark for silent prayer. Some have even managed to erect idols and effigies to their patrons in more "stable" areas of the Temple, less likely to vanish or suddenly change in layout due to the traffic of mortals.
* Death is Down- Far enough from where the variety of Nowhere cults gather lies the edge where laws of reality abruptly begin to "drop off". Halls begin to stretch on longer, and rooms of stairs leading down into the nothingness become more common sights. Congregations looking to draw the attention of their gods tend to practice their rituals on the border of man's unofficial foothold in the Temple, looking to differentiate themselves from the rest. The Temple is still not without risks here. Maddened cultists, shifting geography, and beings from the lower levels looking to emerge into Shesha or just for a snack can easily run into a lost cultist just as easily as an intruder, and do not discriminate in their wrath. Accredited occultists agree that unless one has received summons or has an especially good reason, descending any further is asking for death. Nowhere worshipers being what they are however, rarely 'do' stop here.
* On the Precipice of Madness- Accounts of the lower temple rapidly deteriorate in coherency at this point as reality is left behind. Rooms rapidly shift in layout, content, and composition. Here the ownership of the Hours is more easily defined, but are different from room to room, which can easily disorient and endanger the occultist. Rooms of red silk and hookah smoke that clearly bear the touch of [[The Peacock]], shattered halls that look made of broken mirror can be walked with the ease of [[The Snake Tail with Appendages]], and in certain corners lie beaches of sand where neither light nor darkness touch and sight if forbidden yet an alien pulse of [[The Stomping Sands]] persists. FNORD. Rooms here are attended by Long servants of the Nowheres.
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* At the Edge of Oblivion- Rooms only mentioned in passing by the servants of the Nowheres, the fabled Lowest Rooms are home to beings of Nowhere, who either arrived with the Temple or use it as a "rest stop" on their way to wherever it may be they're going. Beings that defy description, bearing an alien malice towards reality, or perhaps genuine lack of understanding of it. Humans are not welcome here, although whatever manages to ascend this low can no longer be clearly called human. To stand this close to Nowhere while still being technically alive can blur the line between nightmare and reality, life and death. Things that stand here are forever changed. It is here the Deep-Venturer has been said to frequent.