Four Winds Temple

Temple main hallTemple clerics' hallTemple gardens

The Four Winds Temple is a large temple built in worship to the Devanagari.

Clerics are always at hand to provide healing and resurrection services to members of the Yuxue Alliance in the next hall, managed by Ryoko. They also offer ceremonies like funerals and marriages.

There are idols of the deities on their own altars down the main temple hall, managed by Oona.

Most of the town lives quite far apart and some folk live quite reclusively in the mountains. There are few well trodden paths and the forest grows so quickly that without dedicated maintenance, everything is quickly overgrown. This makes hiking the mountain surprisingly difficult, and not many casual walkers attempt it.

#### Points of interest

* Multiple temple buildings surround a large garden, which is accessible through a large arched gateway.
* Tall trees grow along the temple complex and colonnades cover walkways between the various buildings.

#### Layout

The Four Winds Temple lies nestled within a valley in the Blue Mountains just outside of town.

A little bit further uphill is the 13 Trials Tower.

There is a **garden**, a **clerics' hall** for healing, and the **main entrance hall,** as well as four wings for shrines and altars.

###### The Wings

The temple is divided into 4 segments - top (north), left (west), right (east) and south (underground). They are named ‘Wings'; the temple's name is a deliberate mispronunciation of the 'Four Wings'.

**The North Wing,** on its own large floor, is the biggest of them all, has the gods of Devanagari circling around the big circular hall with each major deity getting their own room that extended out of the hall. Starting with Pumi in the middle, Narkunam, Malliga, Chandraman, Vanmuraiyara, Sangeeta, Gyanada, and Jal to the left of Pumi, and Alaikka, Nrittaraja, Ravini, Parthi, Arivali, Raaga, and Jwala to the right of Pumi.

Ryoko was against making a place for Vanamma's worship because, according to him, she just wanted her followers to care for nature rather than praying to her in a temple.

**The West Wing** is for the Faerunian deities, set up for foreigners with pictorial woodblock prints of the deities instead of the idols you'll find in the main temple complex.

**The East Wing**, a bit larger than the left, houses local racial deities and Celestial empire immortals, the pre-Yuxue pantheon of the region.

**The South Wing** is a fourth segment technically dedicated to Shunya.

Most people do not know about it. Even if they did, access is not allowed.

This segment features a huge idol made out of pure dense stone, carved out of a single huge block. This is actually an elaborate building foundation of the temple, and if damaged, could crumble the meticulously constructed temple, which is why access is strictly regulated by Ryoko.

#### History

The Four Winds Temple was established fairly early on in the development of Xiaojiang as the first small headquarters of the Yuxue Alliance. Kashi Ananda personally set up the North Wing.

It has undergone a number of extensions and expansions, coinciding with a growing pantheon due to the increasing diversity in the city.

#### Quote in channel

>  Welcome, cultivators! Please take your shoes off, you are stepping onto hallowed ground here.
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> I'm the main priestess in this wing for religious business. If you have come to pray, please do so with conscientiousness toward your fellow worshipper and keep quiet on the inside.
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> Clerical healing services are provided in the next hall, headed by Ryoko... (You watch her simper as she says his name).
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> Oh! Yes, I'd be happy to answer questions in the temple gardens. You are free to relax, think, or chat -- but softly! -- there as well.
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> Oona