The Sunlit Temple stood out even from afar.
Most of the buildings in the Imperial Capital were constructed with lighter-coloured stone, but the Temple stood out particularly as completely white, and exceptionally grand.
Before the Temple's entrance, a dozen statues could be seen, carved out of the same stainless white marble and accompanying a staircase that was far too wide by my standards.
The statues, representing various men and women I didn't know, weren't anything you couldn't find on Earth, but they seemed to portray certain notable figures of the empire's religion, appearing to me like something out of fantastic mythology.
Although, here, I guess they would call that history.
Something interesting to note was that the figures represented there weren't just priests or saints like one might expect. Most of them were, of course, but there were also a couple of statues that didn't seem to quite fit in with the rest.
