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====__**The Parthenon**__====
A den of sin and iniquity.
The Parthenon is commonly considered a walled cesspit filled with the lawless, the clueless and the heartless. It is by far the most controversial building in Coeur d'Ennui. Although its patrons include several temple luminaries and have accomplished substantial deeds of heroism for the benefit of the city and the kingdom, they also include some of the most notorious criminals and depraved villains on the continent.
<<{{image url="http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z62/ZamahLand/Wiki/Parthenon.jpg"}}>>No one remembers who founded the inn or how much blackmail material they must have had on the Duke to allow it. There are as many pet theories as there are gossips to spread them. Several of the more popular include:
(1) The inn was built to contain the planar rupture in its cellar, and then they put free beer in it so that when the cellar opened and tried to eat people, there'd be some disposable fools handy that no one would miss;
(2) The inn was built as part of an evil mastermind plot by one or another of the world's demon-summoning powers (popular backers include [[Mesandroth Mesandroth Fiendlorn]], Habbelon the Mendicant, and the cultists of the Tower of the Blue Moon), so that whenever sacrificial victims were necessary to fuel the latest demon-summoning, the necromancer could just put out a fake call for heroes and they'd come tromping in, no transportation expenses required;
(3) The inn was built because Ygorl lost a cosmic bet, and that's why he had to sit in there for years, overseeing the place as penance;
(4) The inn was built because hunting down all the Yrilles was costing too much, and trying to neuter them to prevent future Yrilles was too hideous a task for anyone to stomach, therefore the Duke figured that free beer and weaponry ought to make them take care of each other. Alas, he underestimated their laziness, and now the city has two crime problems instead of one.
The goodly temples are mostly resigned to the place, and some of them even send high-ranking members in to do good deeds and, perhaps, pull back a soul or two from the brink of disaster. The evil temples seem to pay it little mind (although, it has been noted, they also appear to keep an eye on potential troublemakers and eliminate them early). What the government thinks, no one really knows. Paying an occasional visit to the place can lend a light spice of scandal to one's reputation in society circles, but those who go there regularly are too obviously undesirable to gain entrance to the upper crust. In the underworld, by contrast, surviving that place for a long while adds a good deal to one's aura of fear.
In general, the Parthenon is considered an irredeemably awful place to which no one sensible goes and from which no one emerges undamaged. It is the place of last resort for those in need of assistance and those desperately in need of coin. Were it not for the undeniable cash influx it provides to the city's gravediggers, healing temples, and weaponsmiths, it would probably have been razed long ago. As is, it is barely tolerated.
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====__**The Parthenon**__====
A den of sin and iniquity.
The Parthenon is commonly considered a walled cesspit filled with the lawless, the clueless and the heartless. It is by far the most controversial building in Coeur d'Ennui. Although its patrons include several temple luminaries and have accomplished substantial deeds of heroism for the benefit of the city and the kingdom, they also include some of the most notorious criminals and depraved villains on the continent.
<<{{image url="http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z62/ZamahLand/Wiki/Parthenon.jpg"}}>>No one remembers who founded the inn or how much blackmail material they must have had on the Duke to allow it. There are as many pet theories as there are gossips to spread them. Several of the more popular include:
(1) The inn was built to contain the planar rupture in its cellar, and then they put free beer in it so that when the cellar opened and tried to eat people, there'd be some disposable fools handy that no one would miss;
(2) The inn was built as part of an evil mastermind plot by one or another of the world's demon-summoning powers (popular backers include [[Mesandroth Mesandroth Fiendlorn]], Habbelon the Mendicant, and the cultists of the Tower of the Blue Moon), so that whenever sacrificial victims were necessary to fuel the latest demon-summoning, the necromancer could just put out a fake call for heroes and they'd come tromping in, no transportation expenses required;
(3) The inn was built because Ygorl lost a cosmic bet, and that's why he had to sit in there for years, overseeing the place as penance;
(4) The inn was built because hunting down all the Yrilles was costing too much, and trying to neuter them to prevent future Yrilles was too hideous a task for anyone to stomach, therefore the Duke figured that free beer and weaponry ought to make them take care of each other. Alas, he underestimated their laziness, and now the city has two crime problems instead of one.
The goodly temples are mostly resigned to the place, and some of them even send high-ranking members in to do good deeds and, perhaps, pull back a soul or two from the brink of disaster. The evil temples seem to pay it little mind (although, it has been noted, they also appear to keep an eye on potential troublemakers and eliminate them early). What the government thinks, no one really knows. Paying an occasional visit to the place can lend a light spice of scandal to one's reputation in society circles, but those who go there regularly are too obviously undesirable to gain entrance to the upper crust. In the underworld, by contrast, surviving that place for a long while adds a good deal to one's aura of fear.
In general, the Parthenon is considered an irredeemably awful place to which no one sensible goes and from which no one emerges undamaged. It is the place of last resort for those in need of assistance and those desperately in need of coin. Were it not for the undeniable cash influx it provides to the city's gravediggers, healing temples, and weaponsmiths, it would probably have been razed long ago. As is, it is barely tolerated.
