Fountainhead Palace

Sunken Valley • Ashina Depths • **Fountainhead Palace** • Hirata Estate

The palace was a popular destination for wedding processions. Nobles made this their home, and mystical beings inhabit the area. Okami warrior women would wear a Dancing Dragon Mask at the palace and dance as an offering for the Divine Dragon, which in turn filled them with vigor.

In order to reach the Palace, one needs to defeat the Corrupted Monk in Mibu Village and the Guardian Ape in the Sunken Valley, then breaking the Iron Code and defeating Great Shinobi - Owl. Once the incense ingredients from these bosses are collected, Wolf can then reenter the Wedding Cave at the end of Mibu Village and be transported to the Palace.

Sculptor's Idols:

* Fountainhead Palace
* Vermillion Bridge
* Mibu Manor
* Flower Viewing Stage
* Great Sakura
* Palace Grounds
* Feeding Grounds
* Near Pot Noble
* Sanctuary

## Vermilion Bridge and Mibu Manor

A grand, red bridge leading to the palace grounds, littered with red leaves, guarded by a tall monk.

The bridge leads down to a collection of nobles' homes surrounding a courtyard just outside the palace by a gigantic waterfall and a large lake where the Great Coloured Carp resides.

* Inhabitants
* Points of Interest
* Loot (Underwater)

* Palace Noble
* Palace Dog
* Okami Archer
* Okami Spear-Bearer
* Okami Swordsman
* Okami Elite Spear-Bearer
* Sakura Bull of the Palace

In the secret room with the chest holding the Water of the Palace.

## Palace Grounds, Great Lake

A giant cherry blossom tree overlooking the great lake. A Pot Noble on a small cliff. Watching from a dedicated terrace is the Attendant who feeds the Great Coloured Carp residing in the large lake below.

* Inhabitants
* Points of Interest
* Points of Interest (Great Lake)

* Attendant of the Great Carp
* Attendant's Daughters (second daughter)
* Okami Juggler
* Okami Elite Spear-Bearer
* Okami Warrior
* Okami Archer
* Palace Dog
* Okami Spear-Bearer
* Okami Elite Swordsman
* Okami Leader Shizu

Underwater* Great Coloured Carp
* Carp
* Treasure Carp
* Headless

Under the bridge at the Flower Viewing Stage Sculptor's Idol.
In a ruined building at the bottom of the lake near the Headless.
At the bottom of the lake by the skeleton of a great carp.
On a log behind a ruined building at the bottom of the lake.
On a broken building above a plateau, above the deeper part of the lake.
In the lair of the Great Coloured Carp.

## Sanctuary and Divine Realm

After the palace doors have been opened, the Attendant's second daughter will appear to have entered and stabbed the Palace Nobles to death, having discovered their treachery. After resting, she will have been dead. After the Attendant has been given the Great White Whisker, he will be found at her corpse, later joined by the first daughter.

Atop the hill is the Sanctuary where a maiden sleeps peacefully. Praying here allows Wolf to enter the Divine Realm to fight the Divine Dragon.

* Inhabitants
* Points of Interest

* Attendant of the Great Carp (first daughter)
* Attendant's Daughters (after freed of duties)
* Okami Elite Juggler
* Okami Elite Spear-Bearer
* Okami Elite Swordsman
* Divine Dragon

Three below a waterfall after the Palace.

## Trivia

* The writing above the Vermillion Bridge reads 「淤加美門」:
	+ 「淤加美」 (Kuraokami / Okami no Kami) is a legendary Japanese dragon and Shinto deity of rain and snow. In Japanese mythology, the sibling progenitors Izanagi and Izanami gave birth to the islands and gods of Japan. After Izanami died from burns during the childbirth of the fire deity Kagutsuchi, Izanagi was enraged and killed his son. Kagutsuchi's blood or body, according to differing versions of the legend, created several other deities, including Kuraokami.
	+ 「門」 = Gate

Gallery
Being Taken to the PalaceVermillion BridgeKuraokami GateView of the PalacePalace GroundsSanctuary Shrine Maiden CloseupOkami Warrior Overlooking The StagePath to the Sanctuary