Metal Garden

Purpose / Function

The metal garden is the courtyard of the most important Innoit temples in the capital city.

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Six-Pointed Star Layout

The garden lies at the center of the golden enclosure. Its paths of priceless masonry lead in every direction towards the temple of the sun, moon, storms, harvest, sea and underground treasures.

Sensory & Appearance

Luminous

The handmade metal flowers, whimsical art pieces and original sculptures bring sparkle and shine to the garden space.

Denizens

Priests

Only those directly from the priesthood are qualified to guard the entrances and exists.

Nobles

Parents give tours to their children and briefly lecture on the significance of many of the artifacts kept on display.

Chosen Women

Residents from the House of Women are normally sent to meet with prospective husbands in the garden as a romantic setting.

Contents & Furnishings

Fountains

Gold and silver ponds with mechanical pumps surrounding a tableau.

Benches

Places decorated with inset emeralds and turquoise for visitors to sit and rest.

Valuables

The ideal of everything is fashioned of gold and silver.

— Coya to a chosen girl

Plants

Corn

A large field of ripe maize cob made out of thick individually sculpted silver kernels and thinner copper husks growing out of dirt sprinkled with gold dust.

Trees

A white sandstone trunk studded with obsidian branches and golden fruit replicas hanging off rainbow glass leaves.

Bush

Emerald pieces shaped into leaves and inlaid into a gold flower frames growing from silver pots.

Life-Size Models

Bugs

Butterflies and other insects are all crafted from precious metals and studded in precious jewels.

Llamas

Standing brass creatures with a hinged neck that allows it to lower its head to drink from small pond.

Jaguars

Gold and silver protectors of the garden with jewels for fangs emitting a growling sound.

Guinea Pigs

A scurrying device, made of wood and driven by compressed air hidden inside, that darts from one bush to another.

Monkeys

Self-moving wax figures sit atop the trees and bare ivory teeth to observers.

Birds

Chirping and flapping birds that sing depending on the size and position of their water nozzles hidden around them.

Herders

Human statues capable of performing a set number of actions independently. It possesses a pair of amber eyes set in a stone face and multiple interchangeable arm positions. The rest of its torso and legs are hidden under a richly decorated cape that a real herder would never wear.
There are a few set of movements that the figure is made to do everyday in sequence:

1. Pour a libation of milk from a golden cup for visitors
2. Walk around a set path in the garden while holding a polished staff

Special Properties

Siq'i Ritual Pathways

The effort metalsmiths have to exert into shaping metals mean that the site assuredly became a huaca as well.

Reflective of camay powers, the garden is a small place in the capital where knottery abilities work.

Alterations

Replacement Parts

There are a number of bedazzled automatons kept in storage in some secret place. They are interchangeable with any on display and are used to switch around the glittering scenes. They include other replicas of other swift-footed species, amphibians, rodents and flying devices.

Alternative Names

Golden Garden

Type

Room, Outdoors, Courtyard

Parent Location

Qurikancha

Owning Organization

Tawantinsuyu

Contested By

• Yachaywasi