The temple looms large. There are some guard towers, and a beautiful arbor walled of rare species of flowers that are donated to the Cult by someone named St. Stephen. (According to the tablet on the bottom – Alzar’s Axe, Selinyr, can read it for him perfectly). There’s a large lily pond that large frogs are using, and giant fish can be seen in, and so forth.
There is a third gate here, with a giant frog statue in front.
It looks like it could come alive at any moment, and it’s currently playing with a human creature made of an unknown metal.
There hasn’t been a lot of traffic for Alzar to dodge. He’s passed by small numbers of people or priests of various sorts. There just haven’t been a lot of them. No need to play dodge-em priests or anything to prevent being noticed.
The Outer Bailey is next. As the temple grew, the monks drained the swamp to the east of the temple and walled the area in with a barrier almost identical to that around the temple compound. Part of this area was a natural harbor, which became the center of commerce. Even a temple compound and the surrounding area has to trade and connect with others.
There are 5 lay brothers working on docks here. Alzar passes more sentry towers, and a common house, and then pens of sharpened close-set palmetto stakes pounded into the ground to create a makeshift palisade. There are some draft horses, slaves, and more in here. There is a trade block in front where slaves and animals are purchased.
Alzar skips them and moves past some barracks as well and warehouses for storage of less-vital things like dry goods and such. There are open doors that reveal casks of clean water, low quality wine and beer, lumber, and grains from trade.