The Sunset Temple in Emerald City was not as majestic or imposing as the Great Temple in Everstar City. It was solemn and dignified, but its delicate proportions and ingenious layout made it a masterpiece of architecture based on the pre-Imperial Triumph style of the old-world Empire while incorporating the mathematical and geometric aesthetics of the new era.
This religious architectural style, steady yet innovative, proved that Starfall Kingdom at the end of the third century stood in a turbulent and restless age. "From kings and nobles above to commoners below, everyone was painfully torn between the rules of the old world and the ideas of the new era. Advancing meant leaving home for a land filled with thorns; retreating meant growing old and waiting helplessly for death." (End Era 349, Boser Kaandi, The Tribulation of the Century—Do the Stars Remain, or Does the Empire?)
The people who oversaw the temple's construction were two high-ranking clergymen during the reign of "the Jackal," Sumei III. One was the deputy High Priestess of the Sacrificial Department, an expert in history and theology. The other was the deputy archbishop of the Missionary Department, an expert in mathematics and architecture.
In that era, their cooperation and the completion of this temple in Emerald City marked and embodied a religious reconciliation between the Sacrificial Department and the Missionary Department within the Sunset faith. They proved that the century-long bloody religious conflict in Starfall Kingdom—the "Priest-Religion Conflict"—had finally come to an end.
(Some records used the appointment of Nairif as archbishop by "the Cutter," Tomond IV, who ignored High Priestess Lydia Crescent Star's oracle and interfered in temple affairs, as the starting point. They called this religious factional conflict the "Sacred-Secular Schism." However, because of the controversy surrounding the legitimacy of the "Cutter" king and the