Other servants who visit from time to time include a fat fellow, a man with a stern face, a handsome man, a squinter, a lordling, and a starved man. The servants of the Many-Faced God pray at dawn at the pool before breakfast, and they eat at a carved wooden table. The House of Black and White also has two older serving men and a cook, Umma. The kindly man and the waif are priests who reside at the House of Black and White, and three acolytes also live in the temple. Interior, by Paolo Puggioni © Fantasy Flight Games One side passage is walled with bones and supported by columns of skulls, and another passage leads to steps which descend even further. At the bottom another iron door leads to a chamber filled with the collection of hanging faces used as disguises by the Faceless Men. A heavy iron door leads to steps which descend below the canal. The holy sanctum lays on the third level, which is only available to priests. The sleeping cells for the servants are on the second. The sleeping cells of priests and acolytes are located on the first level beneath the main floor. The vaults and storerooms contain armament and clothing the possessions of people who die in the temple are separated by the servants. The knoll upon which the temple sits holds many passageways cut from the rock, with a maze of vaults and tunnels located beneath the temple proper. There are no services or songs of worship within the temple. Among them are Bakkalon, the Black Goat of Qohor, the Hooded Wayfarer, the horse god, the Lion of Night, the Merling King, the Moon-Pale Maiden, the Stranger, and the Weeping Woman. There are tall statues of thirty gods in all. In the center is a black pool of poisoned water ten feet across and lit by dim red candles. The temple proper has rows of long stone benches and a rough stone floor, and hard stone beds are located in shuttered alcoves at the walls. A winding stair leads to the garret, and a steep wooden ladder reaches the rooftop's door and a windy perch. Besides the front door, there are also secret tunnels and hidden passages which allow entry to the temple. Its steep steps of grey stone lead down to the shadowed dock. In the center of the doors is a carved moon face ebony on weirwood, weirwood on ebony. The left door is weirwood, the right ebony. Its wooden doors are twelve feet high and carved. It has no windows and has a black tile roof. The House of Black and White sits upon a rocky knoll made of dark grey stone.
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