The trainees who survive still have two final tests before they graduate: the Trial of Fire and Ice, and the Trial of the Elements. Those who succeed at both trials will join the ranks of the monks of Zhao Guang Si. Those who fail are generally dead.

For the Trial of Fire and Ice, the initiate must climb the cliff walls without benefit of rope and then make their way through the Hu0 Yu Bing Caverns to the Labyrinth of Fire and Ice, a path magically made of ice and molten lava.

In addition to venomous snakes and giant spiders, the caverns are home to two undead perils as well. When a trainee dies in the caverns, their body is left to rot. Once the worms have picked the bones clean, their bones reanimate as a skeleton, and will attack the next trainees who enter. In addition, their spirits also haunt the caverns and can attack those who enter. (I used purple will-o-wisps to look like the spirits' eyes.)

There are two magical shards of crystal that trainees can try to get, which will help with both the Labyrinth of Fire and Ice as well as with the Trial of the Elements. The first is a shard from a red crystal on the other side of a pool of lava. If the lava wasn't barrier enough, the room is also guarded by a pair of lesser demons.

The second is a blue crystal on the other side of an icy lake in a room guarded by a pair of ice devils.

Trainees don't need to even try to get shards from either crystal, but they will sure help if they do.

At the end of the caverns is the Labyrinth of Fire and Ice: an icy path marked by red hot lava. A statue on the other side of the room will animate when anyone enters, and tell them that the only exit is a teleportation portal in the center of the labyrinth. It will only activate for those who walk the path. If anyone attempts to bypass the path, it will not activate.

Every turn that a trainee walks the path, they must make a Constitution saving throw. Failing results in cold damage unless they possess a shard of the blue crystal. They must also make a Dexterity saving throw every turn. Failing means they slip and touch the lava, resulting in fire damage unless they possess the red shard.

If they make it to the teleportation circle in the center, they are teleported to the Trial of the Elements.

Here are the five above-ground levels of the temple. As the description notes, the lanterns are covered with a red gauze (except in the library), which gives everything an ominous red glow.

First Floor

Second Floor

(Most of it is a balcony overlooking the statue on the first floor.)

Third Floor

Fourth Floor

Fifth Floor

I mentioned this on your FB post, but I love Spectrum for overland because of the diversity of mountains, hills, and trees, and how well they also work for both large overland maps as well as smaller isometric scenes.

This is a clever approach and it looks very nice. I always learn so much when cartographers share their tricks and techniques. Thank you!

I love how ProFantasy teaches me so much about geography -- the latest being the differences between mesas, buttes, and plateaus. I never took a geology class in school (the town where I lived in for middle school taught it in high school, but then I moved and the town I lived in for high school taught it in middle school). So here's my crash course!

Will there also be cliffs?