Editing Temple Island

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| image = Temple Island.jpg
| location = [[Riven]]
| link-ins = [[Fissure plateau]], [[firemarble dome]]
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'''Temple Island''' (also referred to as ''Allatwan'' or "pool of stars" by the [[Moiety]]<ref>{{cite journal|author=Catherine|journal=Personal journal|journal-page=Reference:Catherine, personal journal (Riven)|game=Riven|game-page=Riven (game)}}</ref>, and '' Allapo'' or "water pool" by the [[Rivenese]] villagers) was one of five islands on the [[Age]] of [[Riven]].  It consisted of two primary land masses.  The main land mass was dominated by the [[Golden Superdome]], which served as a power source for [[Gehn]]'s faulty [[linking book]]s.  Pipes connected the superdome to each of the five [[firemarble dome]]s where books to [[Age 233]] were located.  Temple Island's firemarble dome was on a small island immediately adjacent to the superdome.

A plateau next to the superdome contained the link-in location for Riven's [[Descriptive Book]].  This is also notably where the [[Star Fissure]] was located, and was the site of the dramatic final confrontation between [[Gehn]] and [[Atrus]].  In the later years of Riven, Gehn constructed a cage around the link-in location, disguised as a shelter.  The cage was intended to capture Atrus if he were ever to return.

The [[Gate Room]] guarded the entrance to the Golden Superdome.  It was a five-sided room that could rotate to five different positions.  Its purpose was theoretically to keep people out of areas of the island Gehn wanted to keep private, but it had a second purpose of being a shrine of sorts to the [[Art]].

Temple Island's namesake was The [[Temple of Gehn]], located on the second of the two main islands.  The temple consisted of a long room with a large spherical cage at the end that was actually an [[imager]].  Gehn would project his face into the imager from a cave hidden deeper within the temple.  From the perspective of the [[Rivenese]] villagers, he would appear and disappear as though by divine power.  The villagers would arrive at the temple from [[Jungle Island]] via the [[maglev]], and present offerings to the image of Gehn.  This temple was the second temple to be built on the site, as the original had been destroyed by one of the [[Riven daggers|five daggers]] that [[Catherine]] wrote into the Age.

Temple Island was connected by [[maglev]] to [[Jungle Island]] and by bridge to [[Book Assembly Island]].

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