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==Ehlonna's Splendor==

Situated amongst lightly forested areas giving way to meadows is a grand, open air temple-city dedicated to nature and fertility. Several regional gods and goddesses have representations among the statuary, with the current primary goddess venerated being Ehlonna.

Near by communities pay tithes to receive the blessings of fertility and good hunting. The priests who serve in the Splendor (as the temple-city is called) serve as unofficial advisors to many nearby governments.

While the surface of life there is focused on the business of venerating the deities and serving surrounding communities, as well as educating the next generation of priests and priestesses, there is constant rivalry between the loose and conflicting hierarchies of worship. Schisms and heresies occur beneath the surface, occasionally erupting to the surface in the prayer sessions and scriptural study that makes up civic discourse for the Splendor.

Rumor has it that the reach of the Splendor was once far greater, and that the desert south of Windhook was blighted into its current form by the priestesses of that time. To those spreading this rumor, the current arrangement of gods--especially with Ehlonna as chief goddess--is a compromise that purposefully cripples the power of the Splendor.