The Rock of the Wind

Far to the south of the Sundered Lands in the Deep Sahuul, the people have constructed the Rock of the Wind from a spear of granite thrusting up out of the desert. Built by the Windwalkers, adherents of the faith of The Father the Rock rises half a mile into the sky. Structures carved into the rock make different sounds as the wind blows over and through them, and the Windwalkers use these sounds for divination.
The Temple of Air takes up the lower two thirds of the Rock, with every part of it open to the air in some way. Many sections have breezeways carved completely through the stone from one side to the other to ensure the flow of the wind is unimpeded by the structure. These rooms and passages honeycomb the rock, although they are spaced sufficiently to ensure that the granite spire is unyieldingly strong.
The top third of the Rock is formed into a broad staircase spiralling upward for mystic contemplation as supplicants rise into the heavens. The very top of the spire forms a small holy shrine to the Sky Father, surrounded on all sides by open air blowing through the fluted pillars.
The priests and priestesses of the temple are able to cure any disease or curse by invoking the Winds of Change. As the ritual progresses, the malign influences within the sufferer are expelled from their lungs and sweat, until they are surrounded by an inky miasma clotted over their skin. At the height of the ritual, a fierce dry wind howls through the temple, bringing with it the scent of incense and summer flowers, spiralling around the sufferer in the form of a miniature tornado. The miasma is ripped away and shredded by the wind, which disappears as quickly as it arrived.
Thanks to the immense distance of the Rock from the rest of the Sundered Lands, and the difficulty of traversing the desert to reach it, only the most desperate or faithful make the pilgrimage. Those that manage it find themselves welcomed by the Windwalkers, each dressed in the many-layered gauzy white, pale blue, and smoky grey veils of the priesthood.

Type

Cathedral / Great temple