The temple stood atop a pedestal carved with images of serpents, venom-blooming flowers, and scenes of sacrifice too detailed to be symbolic. The obsidian walls rose at crooked angles, covered in grotesque carvings of writhing beasts, skeletal priests, and fanged idols drooling venom.
At the very top, a single, massive serpent skull had been fused into the architecture, its fangs dripping with emerald ichor that vanished before touching the ground, absorbed into the sloshing poisonous liquid all around.
Massive stone doors stood closed at the front of the temple, etched with rotating rune circles that flickered between green, black, and violet.
And above those doors, a chilling inscription in an ancient script shimmered into visibility for just a moment: "All poisons are truth. All truth is death."
