Diorama Chamber

First Appearance and Context

The Diorama Chamber is encountered along the Hylaean Way inside the Concent of Saunt Edhar during public tours at Apert. Reached after a gallery beyond the rotunda, it opens into a bright, rectangular hall with a vaulted ceiling and clerestory windows that illuminate wall frescoes and the central exhibit.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Centerpiece: a detailed scale model of the Halls of Orithena, set amid floor designs that present visual proofs associated with the Adrakhonic Theorem.
• Iconography: a prominent fresco depicts Diax charging down the temple steps with a rake to drive out Enthusiasts—a scene often used to explain the principle known as Diax's Rake.
• Symbolic access: a second doorway leads directly outdoors, commemorating how many who had once followed Deat’s path later “came in from the cold” to reconcile their ideas with Orithenan practice; in-world this echoes the movement of some Deolaters toward the theoric tradition.

Relationships

• Part of the Hylaean Way sequence of galleries; it follows the Rotunda (with statues of Cnous and his daughters) and precedes rooms devoted to later periods.
• Thematically tied to Orithena’s community of theors and to early formulations of the Hylaean theoric outlook.

Descriptions/Characteristics

• Architecture: rectangular plan, vaulted ceiling, and clerestory windows that wash the frescoes and central model in daylight.
• Exhibits: frescoes arrayed along the walls; central model of the Halls; geometric floor designs that can be “read” as proofs when contemplated.
• Wayfinding: two entrances—one continuing the internal route of the Hylaean Way and one admitting from outdoors.

Current Status/Location

Located within the Hylaean Way at the Concent of Saunt Edhar. It is actively shown to visitors during Apert and serves as a didactic stop where guides relate Orithenan history and the caution expressed by Diax’s Rake.