Temple of Blood-Devourers

Temple of Blood-Devourers
Location information
Location	Staten Island, New York
Residents	The Guide Garrett Vasilika
Affiliation	The Vampiric Council

The Temple of Blood-Devourers, is a secret vampire temple that serves as the Staten Island Vampiric Council Headquarters. Trials and punishments concerning incidents around the Tri-State area are handled within.

Information

The Vampiric Council in the Chamber of Judgement.

Located in the basement of an ordinary office block and accessible via elevator, the temple is very large. Rooms are connected by long and confusing dark corridors lit by - in compliance with fire safety standards - LED lights. Trials are carried out in the Chamber of Judgement, a huge circular room where the council may perform a traditional dance beforehand. Familiars are forbidden to enter this room (unless they are testifying) and are required to wait in the significantly less majestic familiars' room, which appears to be a maintenance room. The temple also serves as a prison, with prisoners including Garrett and Vasilika, and has a corridor leading to an outdoor well, used to execute vampires by exposing them to sunlight.

History

Nadja, Laszlo, Nandor and Guillermo were summoned to the temple when the three vampires were accused of murdering Baron Afanas. They were found guilty and sentenced to death in the well, but were rescued by Colin and Guillermo.

Structure

The temple includes the following:

• An elevator that servers as the entrance
• Medium-security cells
• Prisons, where vampires may serve their sentence
• Various abattoirs, with a sign-in sheet for use
• The Chamber of Judgement, a large circular room where trials are held
• A break room, which stores snacks (i.e. human bodies) all week until Friday, when they are thrown out
• The Chamber of Curiosities, containing a collection of ancient artifacts of vampires from around the world, like the Cloak of Duplication and the preserved penis of the legendary vampire hunter (and distant ancestor of Guillermo de la Cruz), Van Helsing, among others. It also contains the former living quarters of the Sire.
• The familiars' room, effectively a glorified maintenance room with a bed
• The Library of Antiquities, host to a large body of books, vampiric archives, artworks and the world's oldest and largest collection of pornography
• The Well of Daylight, an outdoor well used for execution via sunlight - connected to the main building through a long corridor

Appearances

• What We Do in the Shadows (TV series)
  • "The Trial"
  • "The Cloak of Duplication"
  • "The Chamber of Judgement"
  • "The Lamp"