Cultural chauvinism!
“One, at least. Maybe two. See these murals?” I was using a stick the point out details, because this close there was just the faintest whiff of evil coming from the walls. “It’s Second Age work, like the rest of the temple, but it’s using pre-Discovery religious iconography. Like, really old pre-Discovery. More than fifteen hundred years old.”
It took Bigwave a moment to work it out. “Fifteen hundred? Isn’t that from when the ancestors of the Old Americans showed up?”
“Yeah. This is stuff from the indigenous religions. They were a mixed bag, but the ones in this part of the continent? They didn’t always play nice.”