Talk:Sept
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Layout of a sept?
I have had ideas about how a sept's main room is arranged inside.
- With the seven images around the outside facing inwards. That causes a problem: where does the door go? I thought of the sept room being 8-eided, and the 8th position is for the door. But GRRM says that removing the sept on the Iron Islands left a 7-sided foundation. With 7 corners, and an image at each corner, and the door in the middle of a side, that may crowd matters for the two images and their altars that the door is between.
- Weddings: tend to attract big congregations, so the Father and the Mother would have to be together opposite the door, so that the door is behind the congregation as the sept fills.
- With the seven images and their altars all together in the middle facing outwards. The Father and the Mother would likely face the entrance, for convenience during weddings. If so, use the central space between the Seven as a security lock-up for sacred valuables?, at least in a small sept that does not have plenty of side-rooms.
- The Stranger: Well away from the Father and the Mother, to avoid it being disquietingly prominent during weddings. Next to the Warrior?, to remind people that war causes deaths. But by the rules of geometry, two images must be next to the Stranger.
- Anthony Appleyard (talk) 16:33, 25 April 2021 (UTC)