Flattened Temple Skeletons (Well of Souls Landing)

Layered human skeletal remains flattened into a brittle floor surface on the narrow stone landing of the Well of Souls temple, serving as a trap that cracks underfoot and reveals the temple’s lethal history.

1 appearances

Purpose

Forms a physical hazard by cracking brittle under weight; signals prior trap victims.

Significance

Reveals the temple's lethal history to raise stakes, exposes Satipo's fear against Indy's probing calm, and sets up the perilous descent.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

1 moments

S1E1 · RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

Carpet of Bones and Tripwires

A flattened, layered carpet of human skeletons covers the landing; Indy lowers the torch to reveal them and then steps across them, producing audible cracking. The bones function both as macabre set-dressing and as an immediate physical hazard whose brittleness defines the traversable surface.

Before: Stacked and compressed into a brittle, floor-like carpet across the landing, dormant but ominous.

After: Disturbed by Indy's deliberate steps, emitting cracking noises and demonstrating their fragility; remain present as hazardous debris.

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