Stilto Katharoteras (building)
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The Column of the Purest sits in the central square of Oraispol before the looming Palace of Magi. Erected by Aautokratir Phanagorax before the formation of the Empire, the massive column, dominated by a golden statue of the Purest and a smaller ring of the First Men, contains circling crevices. Tales say that before the subjugation of the Iyrossi, Phanagorax' legions laid a helmet each among the topmost crevice, and declared that they would only come and take them back after they returned victorious.
Dozens of helmets still sit in the topmost spaces, and all those below have since been filled with Aversarian soldiers for a millenium, ancient ritual stating that those soldiers to go to war must place a helmet for good luck. Among the ground around it, thousands more sit piled, and priests regularly receive visitors to add their helmet in great ceremonies to celebrate soldiers going to war.