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The frog temples are large, mysterious structures that originate on meteors in the Incipisphere, each with a giant frog statue on top. They are delivered to their host planets during the Reckoning and are the first meteors to arrive at the planet, delivering the temple and the planets' first guardian. The temples contain various equipment which may vary between sessions, such as the ectobiology equipment for the creation of the first guardian, a Lotus Time Capsule and transportalizers to Prospit and Derse. Its connection to Sburb causes vast amounts of weird plot shit.

Future Harley House

The frog temple in the not-too-distant future.

The giant frog represents the Genesis Frog, the patron god of frogs, and is responsible for the importance of amphibious and reptilian life in Sburb. This is due to him representing creation as his role as the universe the players strive to create. Because of this, frogs are venerated by Prospitians, but considered loathsome, abhorrent creatures by the Derse royalty. Imagery and idolatry depicting frogs is highly illegal in jurisdictions under the control of Derse.

The temple and surrounding structures form a complete model of the Incipisphere. The large central structure has one adjacent stone sphere with its own satellite, surrounded by a specific number of stone spheres, and another sphere with satellite further away, outside the crater rim. In locations with water, giant lily pads have been shown to grow around it, with Jade Harley being able to summon seven lily pads to pass to the central structure from one of the spheres surrounding the temple. The Seven Gates are also seen marked on the side of the temple, representing the ascent through them to Skaia.

The frog temples on each planet contain a sequence of hieroglyphs that provide the code for Sburb. Jade's Grandpa and Sollux Captor used them to write the code for the games in their respective universes.

Known temples[]

A1[]

While it has yet to be seen, it has been revealed that Meenah Peixes found Sburb on the pink moon of Beforus; since the coding for the game originate in the temple, it is likely that pre-scratch trolls' temple was located on the moon.

A2[]

Troll Frog Temple

The trolls' first frog temple.

Red frog temple

The trolls' second frog temple.

The trolls' Sgrub session includes two versions of frog temple. They are similar to the one on Earth save for the fact that the large central structure is surrounded by six stone spires and not four. One is in an underground cavern discovered by Aradia Megido, and the other in a desert near where Kanaya Maryam lives. It's interesting to note that these are the Time and Space players of the session. The first is blue in hue and the statue representing Prospit was destroyed, representing the dream selves of the Blue team residing on Derse. Aradia desecrated the ruin and prototyped her Kernelsprite with the head of the statue. The second temple is red in hue and has had its Derse statue lost, representing the dream selves of the Red Team residing on Prospit. The bottom half is buried in the red and blue sand.

The two frog temples are aligned such that when they are laid over each otherHS, they form a full set of 12 planet statues, one Derse statue, one Prospit statue, and one intact frog statue (which likely represents Skaia, therefore it makes sense for it to be intact on the Prospit dreamers' temple). This clearly parallels the combination of the Red and Blue Teams into a single one through the Mobius Double Reacharound.

The Seven Gates are seen on the side of the temples, confirming that there are that many gates regardless of the number of players.

B1[]

The Authority Regulator, coming across the temple meteor in the Veil, notes how very illegal it is.[citation needed] When the Draconian Dignitary enters the temple to participate in Becquerel's creation, he accidentally drops Dave's Sburb CDs in the Lotus Time Capsule, which is set to release its contents in 413 million years.[citation needed]

In prehistoric times, the frog temple landed on land that would one day become a Pacific island. Jade and Becquerel play-fight atop the frog statue in Act 3. Jade later gains access to the temple, after sneaking in while Bec sleeps. She finds a lotus time capsule with a countdown. When the countdown finishes the flower opens, revealing Dave's copy of the Sburb CDs. Jade expels all the items from her Sylladex and leaves most of them behind when Bec sends her back to Jade's room.

The temple is threatened with destruction when Jade's meteor looms overhead. However, Bec destroys the meteor, and the temple is left intact as Jade's house and the volcano are transported to the Medium.

FrogTempleCascade

In 2422, the temple is inhabited by the Aimless Renegade, and many of Jade's Grandpa's weapons seem to be up there. Many of Jade's belongings are also there and have been for hundreds of years. The Wayward Vagabond flies there on the Skyship Base at the end of Act 2. Soon after, Peregrine Mendicant flies there in the Helipod Base and Windswept Questant also flies in using the Eggy-Looking Base. After Wayward Vagabond and Peregrine Mendicant both arrive they are attacked by Aimless Renegade at the foot of the temple, destroying an external pillar and decapitating the frog statue in the process. The conflict is later resolved when AR surrenders after seeing Bec's head carved on a pumpkin. Aimless Renegade later enters the temple to retrieve the Cookalizer and refrigerator that Jade left behind in the past.

After the Bec Head Base is activated, it lands directly on top of the temple, replacing the old statue's head with Bec's head, the Windswept Questant then enters the temple to wait for the Writ Keeper to emerge from the Lotus Time Capsule. While future Jack Noir destroys the kids' universe with his Red Miles, the Writ Keeper finally emerges from the capsule and the couple have a lovely reunion... for about 10 seconds before past Jack emerges from the capsule as well and kills them both, and uses the Skyship Base to warp to the Trolls' Session, the Frog Temple is then destroyed along with the rest of the kids' universe.

B2[]

Jake's island

Although there was no reckoning in post-scratch human session, delivering the temple to the site of the forge is still integral to jumpstarting the session. That meteor however could have been propelled through a portal by any means, not just via the reckoning.HS

There are eight spires surrounding this frog temple, instead of just four. This is because Jade brings the pre-scratch session's planets with her to the new one, thus creating an eight-planet session.

The towers representing Prospit, Prospit's moon and Derse's moon are missing, foreshadowing their eventual destructionHS by the Condesce and Jack Noir, and also mirroring the final state of the pre-scratch session, where Prospit and its moon are ruined, and Dave cuts Derse's moon adrift.

Furthermore, deep within this temple are two transportalizers, one purple and the other yellow. These two transportalizers lead to Derse and Prospit respectively, and are likely the reason that Jake's Grandma was able to enter the Medium before the actual game started; the same is likely true of Grandpa in the pre-scratch session.

Earth C[]

Calliope and Caliborn's dead sessions had no Reckoning, so a frog temple of their own was never delivered to their planet: the remains of the temple by Jake's home, however, may still remain.


Homestuck locations
Frog Temple Command stations
Earth
Egbert & Crocker home
John's bedroom
Jane's bedroom
Lalonde home
Rose's room
Roxy's room
Skaianet Laboratory
Strider home
Dave's room
Dirk's room
Pacific island
Jade's room
Jake's room
Calliope & Caliborn's room
Alternia
Aradia's hive Tavros's hive Sollux's hive Karkat's hive
Nepeta's hive Kanaya's hive Terezi's hive Vriska's hive
Equius's hive Gamzee's hive Eridan's hive Feferi's hive
Incipisphere
Skaia
The Battlefield
Prospit The Medium Derse
The Veil
Ectobiology lab
Trolls' meteor
The Furthest Ring
Dream bubbles
Heroes' Lands
Wind and Shade Light and Rain Heat and Clockwork Frost and Frogs
Crypts and Helium Pyramids and Neon Tombs and Krypton Mounds and Xenon
Quartz and Melody Sand and Zephyr Brains and Fire Pulse and Haze
Little Cubes and Tea Rays and Frogs Thought and Flow Maps and Treasure
Caves and Silence Tents and Mirth Wrath and Angels Dew and Glass
Caliborn's planets
SburbLogotype
NPCs SpritesUnderlingsDenizensConsortsFirst guardiansCarapacians/ExilesLeprechauns
Locations (starting planet) Command stationsForgeFrog Temple
Locations (Incipisphere) The MediumThe Veil/Ectobiology labsSkaiaProspit/DersePlanetsThe Seven Gates
Concepts PrototypingEctobiologyGod tiering (Mythological roles) • Grist/Ultimate AlchemyBoondollarsFraymotifsDream selvesPhernaliaThe ScratchNull sessionsInternet
Related concepts SylladexSkaianetCrockercorp
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