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St. Taria's Parish
By: RGTraynor

Not every temple is a monument to grandeur, a pilgrimage site of legendary sanctity or a repository of lore, power or influence.  Sometimes they are small parishes, doing their best on the scanty tithes of the poor to cherish their flock.  St. Taria’s is one of these.

This small district temple of Manannan, God of the Sea, set near the old wall of the Mariners’ Quarter of Warwik City, caters to the fisher folk and downtrodden sailors.  The exterior is of plain wood planks with a granite foundation, topped with a modest whitewashed steeple.  The glass windows are purple with age and unadorned.  A small (but sweet toned) bronze bell tolls for services and at the loss of a ship or a congregant.  There is a modest herb garden with benches set up for meditation, and a long-ago filled cemetery.

Sanctuary:  Scallop shell sconces created from translucent alabaster add to the small passage between the doorway and the chancel.  Wistful paintings of sea scenes border the whitewashed walls of the sanctuary.  The pews are of simple woods (salvaged from derelict ships), although lovingly kept, and the dark blue wool aisle runners are a bit threadbare; space in the sanctuary prohibit the pews from making a complete circle around the altar, as is customary.  Streams of blue and green light inside bathe the nave from a stained glass window set behind the altar.  The altar itself is of plain oak, although it is covered with a beautifully embroidered altar cloth.

The curate, a retired lobsterwoman herself, is Mother Ginevra Harlo, a bustling woman who is kindly to her flock but who brooks little nonsense.  There are two teenage acolytes; all live in modest quarters behind the downstairs parish hall.  The parish hall itself is oversized, and Mother Ginevra runs a soup kitchen mid-afternoons for down-and-out locals (augmented by castoffs from the area inns, since St. Taria’s is chronically underfunded), all of whom are known to her.  St. Taria’s is not a bad place to hire common sailors and fishers, if not of the quality one would get at the Venturers’ Guild Hall.  Ginevra is not a powerful cleric by any stretch of the imagination, and has some modest powers of healing and water-based magics.



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Voted Cheka Man
2009-05-24 04:24 PM
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A nice little place.
Voted Moonlake
2009-05-24 08:00 PM
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Very detailed and good physical description of the place but slightly lacking in distinguishing characeteristics.
RGTraynor
2009-05-25 04:48 AM
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What distinguishing characteristics do you think there ought to be?

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