Resting Room Location: Hayame and Claude were abed (pajama-clad!) in Hayame’s home in Alenroux when the Advocate Oracle trial began, and there they have stayed ever since. The many sapling fruit trees Hayame planted before their slumber have become a magnificent grove that now surrounds the house, and Claude’s wyvern Naira sleeps curled up in a mossy clearing within.
Description: Much of Hayame’s home has been preserved as it was when The Repose began, as the caretakers believe that the pair of shard-bearers will eventually wake and live there once more. The only major change they made was mounting Claude's weird bone bow Failnaught and Hayame's giant asymmetrical bow on the walls beside them. Though they initially dressed Claude and Hayame in their own clothing and arranged them neatly side by side.. over the years the presentation has gotten a bit more ostentatious. Hayame’s hair is kept at glossy fetlock-length, but the centaur voted amongst themselves to let Claude’s beard grow out. At some point, a well-meaning granny gently moved them to lay hand-in-hand, and no one had the heart to change them back.
Offerings placed in front of the pair are arranged neatly by the caretakers- they mostly consist of various makes and sizes of arrows in a plethora of donated quivers, archery-related items such as bow wax or strings, fruit, and coins. Also, braided cords consisting of two different organic materials such as hair, scaly skin, or feathers seem to be tied on the rope marking off the sleeping shard-bearers.
Purpose: Hayame receives a great deal of worship as a Meridian of the highest tier known for her unwavering dedication to claiming the Oracles and defeating Zenith, as well as her role in The Taming of Alenroux. She receives individual prayers for victory in battle, a path home to original worlds, and strength of will. Claude receives individual prayers from Kenosians looking for help finding diplomatic solutions and overcoming challenges. Hayame worshipers seem to view him either as the peace-advocating consort who provides wise counsel and a tempering influence to her rage… or, as a hindrance to her righteous fury.
Together, as the only shard-bearers who had been living officially in Alenroux before The Repose, they are worshiped by some as saints of the island who guarantee its prosperity and safety from monsters. At some point, they became a symbol for those Kenosians in interspecies relationships, and it became a popular activity for couples of different races to come to their shrine and pray for a successful and harmonious relationship despite challenges of culture and biology. Couples on these pilgrimages often leave the braided cord offerings as proof of their intentions to each other.
The off-hand proposal that a spring archery competition in Alenroux be held on the grounds in front of the home “since they were both archers, after all” has grown into a somewhat massive annual event that warriors from all corners of Kenos attend, and wooden plaques commemorating certain distances or achievements can now be found hanging on arrowhead-pocked trees in the grove. Archers now pray to the sleeping pair for accuracy, improvement, or victory over their enemies.
+ NAIRA: A certain Alenroux farmer once picked up a pure white scale that had shed from the sleeping wyvern and, on a whim, kept it in his pocket. When he soon after struck it rich, he wondered aloud if the scale hadn't been something of a charm... and ever since then Naira's scales have been a coveted charm in Alenroux. Legend says you'll be cursed instead of blessed if you actually pluck it from the creature's body, so people hang flower wreathes on the wyvern's horns and hope they will be lucky enough to see a glistening scale on the moss when they visit.
+ LIEM: Some of the followers of The Church of the Key sometimes visit Hayame's home as a sacred pilgrimage site, having heard that it was the first structure that the great Father Liem constructed on the island.
Caretaker(s): The two shard-bearers have been mindfully tended by a herd of Meridian-aligned quadrupedal citizens (mostly centaurs) that meet monthly to spend time together in the wide open spaces of Alenroux. Hayame had been attending those meetings ever since her first invitation 1.5 years ago, and in February had finally given in to peer pressure and brought Claude to introduce around. He was a hit! Which is good, because otherwise he might have gotten kicked out of the shrine. Their original primary caretaker was the young filly who first invited Hayame to the meetings, Lyra, (well, Lyra’s parents, she begged them), and since then the job was inherited by Lyra herself, then her daughter, now her granddaughter Halide.
It became common practice for members of the herd to spend part of the meeting day on any maintenance, cleaning, gardening, or construction that might be needed at the house-turned-shrine. Thanks to them, everything within has remained in as pristine a condition as possible. They also do their best to nip any weird rumors or cultish behavior in the bud, helped by the fact that some members of the herd are more long-lived and still have first-hand memories of the pair.
HAYAME & CLAUDE 🏹 MERIDIAN
Description: Much of Hayame’s home has been preserved as it was when The Repose began, as the caretakers believe that the pair of shard-bearers will eventually wake and live there once more. The only major change they made was mounting Claude's weird bone bow Failnaught and Hayame's giant asymmetrical bow on the walls beside them. Though they initially dressed Claude and Hayame in their own clothing and arranged them neatly side by side.. over the years the presentation has gotten a bit more ostentatious. Hayame’s hair is kept at glossy fetlock-length, but the centaur voted amongst themselves to let Claude’s beard grow out. At some point, a well-meaning granny gently moved them to lay hand-in-hand, and no one had the heart to change them back.
Offerings placed in front of the pair are arranged neatly by the caretakers- they mostly consist of various makes and sizes of arrows in a plethora of donated quivers, archery-related items such as bow wax or strings, fruit, and coins. Also, braided cords consisting of two different organic materials such as hair, scaly skin, or feathers seem to be tied on the rope marking off the sleeping shard-bearers.
Purpose: Hayame receives a great deal of worship as a Meridian of the highest tier known for her unwavering dedication to claiming the Oracles and defeating Zenith, as well as her role in The Taming of Alenroux. She receives individual prayers for victory in battle, a path home to original worlds, and strength of will. Claude receives individual prayers from Kenosians looking for help finding diplomatic solutions and overcoming challenges. Hayame worshipers seem to view him either as the peace-advocating consort who provides wise counsel and a tempering influence to her rage… or, as a hindrance to her righteous fury.
Together, as the only shard-bearers who had been living officially in Alenroux before The Repose, they are worshiped by some as saints of the island who guarantee its prosperity and safety from monsters. At some point, they became a symbol for those Kenosians in interspecies relationships, and it became a popular activity for couples of different races to come to their shrine and pray for a successful and harmonious relationship despite challenges of culture and biology. Couples on these pilgrimages often leave the braided cord offerings as proof of their intentions to each other.
The off-hand proposal that a spring archery competition in Alenroux be held on the grounds in front of the home “since they were both archers, after all” has grown into a somewhat massive annual event that warriors from all corners of Kenos attend, and wooden plaques commemorating certain distances or achievements can now be found hanging on arrowhead-pocked trees in the grove. Archers now pray to the sleeping pair for accuracy, improvement, or victory over their enemies.
+ NAIRA: A certain Alenroux farmer once picked up a pure white scale that had shed from the sleeping wyvern and, on a whim, kept it in his pocket. When he soon after struck it rich, he wondered aloud if the scale hadn't been something of a charm... and ever since then Naira's scales have been a coveted charm in Alenroux. Legend says you'll be cursed instead of blessed if you actually pluck it from the creature's body, so people hang flower wreathes on the wyvern's horns and hope they will be lucky enough to see a glistening scale on the moss when they visit.
+ LIEM: Some of the followers of The Church of the Key sometimes visit Hayame's home as a sacred pilgrimage site, having heard that it was the first structure that the great Father Liem constructed on the island.
Caretaker(s): The two shard-bearers have been mindfully tended by a herd of Meridian-aligned quadrupedal citizens (mostly centaurs) that meet monthly to spend time together in the wide open spaces of Alenroux. Hayame had been attending those meetings ever since her first invitation 1.5 years ago, and in February had finally given in to peer pressure and brought Claude to introduce around. He was a hit! Which is good, because otherwise he might have gotten kicked out of the shrine. Their original primary caretaker was the young filly who first invited Hayame to the meetings, Lyra, (well, Lyra’s parents, she begged them), and since then the job was inherited by Lyra herself, then her daughter, now her granddaughter Halide.
It became common practice for members of the herd to spend part of the meeting day on any maintenance, cleaning, gardening, or construction that might be needed at the house-turned-shrine. Thanks to them, everything within has remained in as pristine a condition as possible. They also do their best to nip any weird rumors or cultish behavior in the bud, helped by the fact that some members of the herd are more long-lived and still have first-hand memories of the pair.