Marble Altar 3D model
Marble Altar from the Realistic Surfaces & Structure pack in TerrainTale's library. Place it on the grid to add height or cover; the ruler counts the elevation it creates.
- Folder
- Stairs, pillars and structure
- Pack
- Realistic Surfaces & Structure
- Author
- ambientCG; trees grown with ez-tree by Daniel Greenheck (MIT)
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 (public domain)
- Size
- 5 ft by 3 ft, 3 ft tall (covers about 1 by 1 squares)
- Format
- GLB (binary glTF 2.0)
- File size
- 76 KB
About this model
A solid block altar of white marble with soft grey veining, topped by a slightly wider slab. It is clean and polished, without carving, so it looks formal and costly. It is about 5 ft long, 3 ft deep and 3 ft tall, one full square wide and waist high.
Set it at the end of a temple nave, in a royal chapel, a celestial shrine or a vampire's mockery of a holy place. In combat it is a sturdy block to fight around and offers solid cover to anyone crouched behind it. It also works as a focal point for rituals, so cultists, sacrifices and holy relics naturally gather on it.
Ideas for the table
- Cultists in a stolen temple are three words from finishing a ritual on the marble altar.
- A paladin must lay her broken sword on a gleaming altar and hold the line while it is reforged.
- The marble altar is hollow, and the high priest keeps the city's true charter inside it.
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