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=== Surn's Refuge ===
=== Surn's Refuge ===
[[File:Kar-Thal_-_Grand_Hall_01.jpg|thumb|Inside Kar-Thal]]
[[File:Kar-Thal Grand Hall.jpg|thumb|The Grand Hall of Oras]]
[[Surn's Refuge]] is a district focused on contemplation and public ceremony  A cavernous sanctuary filled with mineral chimes and natural spires. The city's most sacred public rituals take place here.
[[Surn's Refuge]] is a district focused on contemplation and public ceremony  A cavernous sanctuary filled with mineral chimes and natural spires. The city's most sacred public rituals take place here.


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|Representation in Media==== '''Art and Visual Depictions''' ===
|Representation in Media==== '''Art and Visual Depictions''' ===
Kar-Thal is frequently portrayed in Duranthi art, though rarely in full or literal form. Instead, artists emphasize the city’s underlying geometry, mass, and silence. Resonance painters, stone-dust muralists, and sculptors often represent Kar-Thal through abstract forms—layered arches, weight-bearing columns, and partial echoes of walls and halls.  
Kar-Thal is frequently portrayed in Duranthi art, though rarely in full or literal form. Instead, artists emphasize the city’s underlying geometry, mass, and silence. Resonance painters, stone-dust muralists, and sculptors often represent Kar-Thal through abstract forms—layered arches, weight-bearing columns, and partial echoes of walls and halls.  
[[File:Terasil_-_Art_-_Gilari_Sand_Kar-Thal_01.jpg|thumb|A Gilaari sand painting of Kar-Thal. ]]
 
Artists from other cultures often portray Kar-Thal with more literal detail: towering subterranean gates, vast chasm-plazas, and monolithic guardians. These depictions typically emphasize scale and mystery over ritual accuracy, blending reverence with distant speculation.  
Artists from other cultures often portray Kar-Thal with more literal detail: towering subterranean gates, vast chasm-plazas, and monolithic guardians. These depictions typically emphasize scale and mystery over ritual accuracy, blending reverence with distant speculation.