First appearance: S1E8 — Fireballs — Grorx v Lord Xiren · watch it on YouTube
Kabehe’s Temple is an ancient desert temple carved into a mountain, its depths buried in red sand and the dust of old bones. The Grandmaster called it “my temple of the lost,” and it served as the arena for S1E8 — Fireballs — Grorx v Lord Xiren, where Grorx and Lord Xiren fought. It had hieroglyphs of dogs on its walls, a sunlit statue in its ceremonial heart, and a lock built by Grorx’s own father. It didn’t survive the match: the temple collapsed in the match’s final chaos event.
Description
The champions arrived underground, in a cool chamber where every sound echoed and a sliver of light fell from above. Sand covered the floor, and a small staircase climbed to a second story about 20 feet up. The walls were carved with hieroglyphs of dogs. One door was sealed with a pressure-plate lock, and that lock had been designed by Grorx’s father.
When the Grandmaster spread her wings, bright and deep blue across every feather, the cloud she kicked up told the champions what kind of place they were in. It was red sand mixed with bone dust. “This place is ancient,” the champions were told, and the rest of the temple agreed.
The ceremonial chamber was its grandest room. A large humanoid stone statue stood in a beam of sunlight, with a ceremonial plate carved in hieroglyphs beneath it. Around it were broken columns, the mummy’s pillar, and the bones and bodies of long-buried champions and attendants. Grorx, searching his memory for what the place might be, decided it was “the set of The Mummy.”
Outside, the temple’s front was cut straight into the face of a mountain under a hot desert sun.
History
The Grandmaster introduced Kabehe’s Temple as the arena for the fight between Grorx and Lord Xiren. She made clear that the buried chamber was only where things started:
“You are not necessarily stuck here, but it is a good place to begin.”
She then took off in a cloud of red sand and bone dust and settled into her grand seat high above, in her secondary throne, to watch.
As the fight went on, the champions found more of the temple: its staircases and sealed doors, the ceremonial chamber with its silent dead, and the sunbaked entrance outside. The temple had already buried champions and attendants long before this match. It did not survive one more Deathmatch. In the final chaos event of the match, Kabehe’s Temple collapsed.
Notable Figures
- Grorx: one of the two champions who fought here. His father designed the pressure-plate lock on one of the temple’s doors.
- Lord Xiren: Grorx’s opponent in the temple.