Aetheris Pyrism/Temples

Temples

This is practical information on the religious structures, and it is shared by the members of the religion. An outsider would require learning from a full member of the church this information.

Temple Locations

Shinnen Purlieus

Constructed By: Torpius d'Arricarrère

Temple Size: Small Temple (3)

Est. Believers: 100

The first temple of Aetheris Pyrism.

Smokey Hills

Constructed By: Mormeg Garayoa

Temple Size: Small Shack (1)

Est. Believers: 100

Orz

Constructed By: Bipel Coldchest

Temple Size: Primitive Temple (2)

Est. Believers: 100

Grodno

Constructed By: Siegterm Guldan

Temple Size: Small Shack (1)

Est. Believers: 100

Fissoa

Constructed By: Shin Shenron

Temple Size: Medium Temple (4)

Est. Believers: 100

Maf

Constructed By: Etienne Silver

Temple Size: Small Shack (1)

Est. Believers: 100

Temple Structures

Holy Flames

Temples may have several different altars, constituted by different fire settings defined by their intents.

Bustum is a ceremonial furnace in where the deceased are sent back to the gods and cremated. When the local temple has such an altar, they offer the community the crematory service, along with the funeral rites. The furnace tends to be located in a room to accommodate the mourning family, allowing them to make their final sacrifices to the altar. When Busta are unavailable, funeral pyres replace the furnace.

Coctum is an oven for ceremonial preparations of food.

Igneum is a lamp or a candle used in ceremonies in the dark to provide light.

Turibulum is censer in which offerings are made, usually consisting of small flammable substances, like a piece of cloth or a small wooden figure, though, unsurprisingly, incense is a popular choice. Such altars are usually simply made of a recipient with live coal in it, though more refined versions of them exist. They can be found in almost every temple in both small and large sizes, and even in personal shrines.

Cursed Grounds

In temples large enough to have it there is an underground chamber called the "cursed grounds". It is considered an unholy place in where one risks being cursed or possessed by merely being there, where the Gods are not observing and the law of the Unholy ones applies. In such place one can murder or commit what would be a crime anywhere else, and not be judged by the gods, if one doesn't mind risking losing their own soul. Such place is naturally always heavily locked and guarded, and rarely used. When that happens it's either for the teaching of Demonology or for applying the hardest possible punishment to condemned ones, usually in secrecy.