The Ashen Temple

rival_of

• ←House Vandahl — An uneasy peace over who gets the relic.
• →The Silt Hands — The Temple would sanctify what the Hands would sell.
• ←Galdra Pyre — Guild fire against Temple doctrine.
• →The Hollowing Oak — The Temple calls the oak's ancestor-cult heresy and stays out of the trees.
• →Caer Vallen — The Temple claims the ruin by right against the house's claim by blood.
• ←Sumeh the Tideless — The Temple left her to mind the shrine, never called her back, and now rows out to seal what she has kept open.
• ←The Kneeling Drowned — Soft heresy vs. soft orthodoxy — the Temple calls their listening rot and rows out to seal what they keep open; neither will spill the first blood on holy ground.
• ←The Kneeling Drowned — The Temple rows out to seal what the Drowned leave ringing.
• ←The Ashen Moot — The Temple would settle Asheni disputes by doctrine and mercy; the Moot insists the old blood judges its own by lineage and kept grudge. They contest the same hearths in Valenfeld.

located_in

• →Valenfeld — The chapterhouse stands in town.
• →The Drowned Shrine — The Ashen Temple rows pilgrims out to the Drowned Shrine and wants it sealed against the Kneeling Drowned's use.

member_of

• ←Sister Vethi — A keeper of the Ashen Temple.
• ←Curate Andil — The curate of the chapterhouse.
• ←Varra Sorn — Curate Andil's acolyte, keeper of accounts and private correspondence.
• →The Sealed Choir — The old Ashen Temple is the Choir's Vale chapter, whatever the elders still call it.
• →The Soft Choir — The old Temple is the Soft Choir.
• ←Threnn the Fired — Threnn still carries his Temple ordination though he has effectively left the Temple's orbit.
• ←Sister Velthi — Sister Velthi is an Ashen Temple keeper, posted alone to the Rampart Foothills to hold the Temple's claim to Caer Vallen.
• ←The Cairn-Shrine of the Watcher — The Cairn-Shrine is the Ashen Temple's only physical presence in the Rampart Foothills — a field cairn maintained by one keeper.
• ←Sister Cael of the Cupped Hand — Sister Cael is an Ashen Temple anchorite keeping her penance at the thirst-shrine.
• ←The Hermit of the Rib — The hermit was an Ashen Temple priest before the flats broke him; still loosely affiliated in faith if not in obedience.
• ←The Salt-Pan Shrine — The shrine is in the Ashen Temple's spiritual custody — Sister Cael is their presence here.

guards

• →The Drowned Shrine — The Temple rows pilgrims to pray on the drowned steps.
• →The Weeping Vault — The Vault's seal is Temple work, meant to keep something in.
• →Vault-Weeper — The Temple's seal exists for this and nothing else.
• →The Tidewrack Sink — The Temple's drowned still keep their stations at the unreconsecrated altar, faithful past death — the orthodoxy claims them and dares not enter.

ally_of

• ←Indryn Vandahl — He has opened a private channel to the Temple — not quite a betrayal, but close enough to count.
• ←Belethys — She lights a candle at the Temple weekly. Sister Vethi is the closest thing she has to counsel.

references

• ←The Binding of Vallen — It is the Temple's formal doctrinal argument for the relic.
• ←Letter from Varra to the Almsmaster — The letter is directed upward within the Temple hierarchy.
• →Vallen Sentinel — The Temple covets the secret of the bronze and fears the thing that keeps it.
• ←The Drowned Censer — Of a sea-rite older than the Ashen orthodoxy, which calls the censer sacrilege.
• ←quest.the-unhushed-prayer (unresolved) — The orthodoxy's boats row out to seal the nave; the call-the-Temple branch is theirs.
• →The Asheni — The Ashen Temple keeps the Asheni dead and the ancestor-wards their blood answers to.
• ←The Drowned Prayer — The orthodoxy would call keeping a drowned priest's caught prayer sacrilege.
• ←quest.the-slack-tide (unresolved) — The Temple claims the censer as consecrated; the sell-out fork buys the player its favour.
• ←The Closing Bell — The Ashen Temple commissioned the bell for silencing rites — they want it back before someone uses it the wrong way.
• ←The Sundering Scar — The Temple marks the Scar as holy ground and a warning — the place where the world was broken and is still ringing.
• ←The Drowned Lord-Stag's Bones — The Ashen Temple reads the stag's bones as a parable of the lying water.

enemy_of

• →Silt Pike — The Temple warns its pilgrims off the wet stone for fear of the pike.
• →Shard-Haunt — The Temple reads the haunts as the reason the relic must be sanctified and burns them where it finds them.
• →Hedge-Imp — The Temple counts every loose imp against the guild's already-thin name.
• ←The Tide-Pickers — The Temple calls the take sacrilege and the Pickers thieves of consecrated dead-goods.
• ←Sumeh the Tideless — Sumeh stands against the Ashen Temple's sealing-boats and has warned travellers off them for years.
• ←The Drowned Rite — The Ashen Temple regards the Drowned Rite's practices as heresy and is actively sealing its surviving monuments.

created_by

• ←The Verdigris Vigil — Forged for the warden the priesthood and the old empire walled in together — the only honest work the two ever did.

owns

• →The Weeping Tooth Camp — The Ashen Temple keeps a lonely shrine-stone at the Weeping Tooth spring — more pilgrimage than presence.