“The great Ziggurat towered above the squalor of the sunbaked city. Each level of the terraced pyramid was finished
in glazed brick of a different color: gleaming violet at the
base, then indigo, azure, green, yellow, fiery orange, and
finally, scarlet.”
- A chronicler of Athas
Kalak built his ziggurat to siphon the life force of the people of Tyr and use it to transform himself into a being as mighty as the Dragon. He failed, but the ziggurat remains as a prominent reminder of the evils of defiling and the folly of placing ultimate power in a sorcerer-king.
The only obvious entrance is located atop the great stair, which opens into a small antechamber lined with obsidian as black as Kalak’s heart. A massive block of stone scribed with the emblem of King Tithian now seals the entrance into the body of the ziggurat. In addition, a squad of the Tyrian Guard is always on duty here, making certain that no one tries to gain entry without permission of the templars.