Hey there, I'm currently reading through Book 2 in preparation and one thing that bothers me is *why exactly is Moonstone Hall buried*? It says it was buried to make room for civic improvements to the Woodworkers District, but that doesn't really make sense to me.
It's a massive temple dedicated to a major (dead) god, full of ancient magic and, well, just valuable building ressources. Just from an economic standpoint it seems much more sensible to me to at least take it apart for materials.
Instead, the way the AP presents it, they either somehow dug a giant hole, put the temple inside of it (almost fully intact), and then instead of covering it completely with earth, they put up pillars ("The city built atop the temple is held up by several support pillars, including many pillars that once supported the temple itself." p.21), creating a massive sinkhole hazard. On top of this hazard they then constructed a neighbourhood consisting of "drug houses, gambling dens and overcrowded tenements". Oh, and they also have to permanently position guards to prevent the underground temple from becoming yet another criminal den.
Alternatively, if they didn't dig a giant hole, that would mean they constructed some kind of mound around it, again supported by pillars, which they then built the aformentioned district on. And unless they wanted a suspiciously temple shaped mound, they would have to use a massive amount of material and space to cover it in a way that would make building on it later somewhat manageable.
Also, it's written the temple was buried shortly after Aroden's death. Maybe I'm overestimating how much he was worshipped, but it seems a bit weird to me that on an island that literally wouldn't exist without Aroden, they just decide to bury his temple to expand the drug dealer district 10 years after his death (an event of nearly unprecedented cosmic significance), instead of keeping it standing out of respect, or at least converting it to an Iomedae temple or something.
Maybe I'm just overly cynical, but if my players asked about this, I wouldn't be able to answer them from the AP alone.
