Celetide Temple

If the Harbour is Celetide's beating heart, the Temple is its pious mind. Besides trade and proximity to the sea, it is its temple that brings visitor to the Floating City. With many, many sections dedicated to various deities, the Temple is bigger even than most superstructures. The permanent residents' worship result in a mostly sea-based regular pantheon, but many more deities still have impressive followings flowing through the city.

Structure and Inner Workings

The crown jewel of the city, the temple stands tall bove the rest of the city. All main roads lead to it, and a path goes around the whole structure to access it's different main entrances leading to various areas. Following almost an honeycomb pattern, various religious domains are loosely grouped together in sections, with alveolus of varying sizes dedicated to more or less popular gods and various divine entities. The most venerated deities generally have their own clerics to tend to the shrines and ceremonial rooms, while lesser entities' alcoves are tended to by general acolytes. At the centermost of the building is a much larger area dedicated to unaffiliated connection to the divine.

Uses

Pilgrimage

Hundreds of pilgrims go to the Temple every season, some to admire the general divine essence of the place, some with more specific requests or worship in mind.

Ceremonies

Various general ceremonies take place in Celetide. By the nature of the city, many are meant to appease the sea and appeal to the waves, but all sorts of worships have found use of the ceremonial grounds of the city. Times of despair have often been a cause of increased ceremonies, and the beginning of the Second Isolation has certainly caused a rise in ceremonies aiming to stabilise the Planes.

Divine Intervention

Although any pilgrim could technically ask for a miracle, and may even occasionally have their wish granted, divine beings work on a grander scheme than most pilgrims could ever hope to invoke. However, the Grand Temple is without a doubt the best place to ask such favours, regardless of chances of success in convincing divinity, it is a place filled to the brim with divine energy, empowering the priests and clerics tending to the temple and one of the few places where most deities always have an eye on.
Pilgrims, however, are not the only ones to make their way to Celetide for extraplanar help. Of course, anyone making their way to the Temple could be called a pilgrim, but the term here is more mundane than to apply to those who usually get a miracle granted to them. Particularly influential parties have brought their diseased, their woundeds and their deads to the Temple in hopes of saving and influential leader or powerful fighter of evil. While rare, these events did occur, and a handful of such miracles have been recorded in history books. Often, such miracles also lead to grand displays of divine forces, but a couple of them were more subdued in side effects.

Type

Cathedral / Great temple

Parent Location

Celetide