~Temple of Autumn~ Baize welcomes all

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You didn't realize you were lost until you wished to ruturn home. Suddenly, the golden trees that surounded you were rather unfamiliar, and none were seen around youre clearing. You chose to walk on, hoping to come across another fae who can point you home. Despite your current situation, you find the golden and orange hues of this part of the forest rather soothing. Its as if the seasons never changed here.
"Welcome" Whispers a smokey voice. You freeze, and it allows you a moment before it continues "...welcome to the domain of the Autumn Goddess Baize. Enter if you wish, but be warned, the goddess is as ever changing as her season..."
A goddess? You had somehow stumbled upon the territory of a goddess! Looking around you in amazement, you realize that you've been among her home for some time.
But after the warning from the disembodied voice, do you dare continue?

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The Temple

Baize would never think of cutting down her sleepy trees to create her place of worship, but neither marble nor stone felt right as an ode to the season that cared for neither.
So instead, Baize asked her sleepy trees to grow, and to bends and so the Temple of Autumn was created.

Within her Forest, there is an area where the trees begin to thin. It is not a true clearing, as the canopy still lets only select golden rays of sun enter to the forest floor and trees are still present, simply further apart. Within this space rises what apears to be a great round building. On closer inspection, you see that the trees making up such a place are in fact alive and in tact. They have woven into each other to create what you see before you, leaving small spaces at random to create .
You notice a large arched opening and decide to venture within the structure. Surrounding the opening are some of the largest golden pumpkins you have ever seen, lovingly given life through a network of green vines. There seems to be a clear path through the Autumn fruit how ever, and you make your way to the Temple entrance.

The great hall
Once within, you see that the floor in a soft litter of leaves, in golds and oranges and reds. Looking up you can see the roof is made of the thick and leafy canopy of the trees that make up the structure. There seems to be a single great hall, but walls of trees at the back of the immense hall block guests from private chambers shared by the Goddess and her family. The walls of the hall are graced by trees and shrubs growing every autumn fruit or vegetable available.
Towards the rear of the hall the trunk of a tree, that still somehow radiates life, makes the Alter where worshipers can deposit their offerings to the Seasonal Goddess and her family. Upon the Alter is an inscription, letting any guest know that regardless of whether they leave an offering or not, they are welcome to the seasonal foods that surround them.

The Private Chambers
The Goddess only saw fit to create sleeping chambers for her and her family within the temple, as she knew that everything else they would require was available to them within the forest. If the wished to eat, Food was abundant and if they required company to dine with the alter in the great hall served well as a dining table. If one wished to bath, there were streams and ponds private enough that they could do so without intrusion.
Within the left wing Chamber, resides the Goddess and her Angelique Aspen. The walls are surrounded by a spiraling staircase of branches, leading up to a platform close to the canopy. This platform is created of tree braches, woven so tightly and evenly they create a smooth, flat surface. At the end of these branches hangs a decorative curtian of leaves. Upon such a platform, is nothing more then a bed. Like everything else within the temple, the bed is made from the branches of trees. It lies fairly low on the platform, and is fitted not with a mattress, but a bed of leaves and downy feathers and a blanket of the finest tan pelt. The Pillows are likley made in such a way, donated by animals who returned their energy to Faetasia.
The guest and childrens chambers are also set up in such a way, except that the each contain several platforms and staircases apposed to just a single one.

 

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The Goddess

Name: Baize
Pronounced: Bayz
Name Meaning: Golden Leaves
Domain: Autumn
Alignment: Neutral
Angelique: Aspen
Children: Just her trees and fruit for the moment
Enjoys: Picking Apples, Colouring trees gold, Being right, Touching the velvet on Aspen's horns, Headbutting, being wrapped in Aspen's long tail, Sun showers
Dislikes: Her Sisters domains, animal cruelty, cutting down trees
Personality: Always arogant and showy, Baize is forever competing with her sisters. She dislikes having to share a year with them, but is pleased with having her own little peice of earth that willingly bends its will to her season (Which is where she chose to locate her temple).
To say the Goddess Baize is temperamental would be an understatement. Like her season, you are forever unsure of what mood she will be in. Some days she will be pleasant and calm, just wishing to stroll with Aspen and inspect the seasons harvest, others she is full of energy and fierce determination, picking fights and running endlessly through her forest. The worst moods are when she is at the peak or anger and frustration. Storms brew and trees cower when she is like this, but all it takes is some harsh words from her mate and a vent for her to return to her arrogant.

 

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The Angelique

Name: Aspen
Pronounced: AS pen
meaning: Aspen tree
Alignment: Good
God and/or domain: Baize / Autumn
Children: -none-
Enjoys: Nature, Balance, Furs
Dislikes: Insensitivity to nature, Littering, Undo cruelty, Hypocrites
Personality: Aspen is a strong and dedicated male. He has a love for nature that so few he has met can even fathom. He is the first to comfort and injured animal, or caress a withering tree. Every hurt and pain of nature is his to feel. Despite his gentle love for life, Aspen is also a powerful warrior, he will defend those he loves and what he believes in without question. Those that have come up against him have learned to regret it. He has been known to be stubborn, never taking crap from others and knows well how to put a person in their place. It is because of this fact he has the tendency to butt heads with his Goddess, but always in the most loving of ways.

 

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The Children

Name: Roan
Pronounced: Row-n
meaning: A variant of rowan, means one with read hair, also a kind of mountain shrub
Alignment: Nuetral
God and/or domain: Autumn
Children: -none-
Enjoys: Competing with his sister, solitude, hunting
Dislikes: Tangles in his hair, disrespect,
Personality: Roan can be quite arrogant, as his inherit beauty and power has made him vain. How ever, he has a very hard, cold demeanor, and looks down on others rather then acting flouncy and loud. Although his mother has power over their domains weather, and her stronger sister has more, he still has found that he can make it rain and storm at will. This is something he uses more then he should to intimidate those he encounters.
Roan really does need a good Angelic to straighten him out, or perhaps an ebil one to encourage his vanity.

Name: Mandragora
Pronounced: Man-dra-go-rah
meaning: Mandrake Root
Alignment: Neutral
God and/or domain: Autumn
Children: -none-
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Personality: Strong and ever changing as the season into which she was
born, Mandragora is as unpredictable as and autumn storm. May she bring warmth,
cold or even snow to her heart on a whim. A mistress of herbs and the hallucinogenic
properties of them, she is not one to get angry, lest one find themselves flat on
their backs, laughing about flying rabbits or cowering fear from the demons that
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Alignment: Nuetral
God and/or domain: Autumn
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Name: Braeburn
Pronounced: Bray-burn
meaning: A species of Apple
Alignment: Nuetral
God and/or domain: Autumn
Children: -none-
Enjoys: Apples, sun showers, making jewelry/decorations using vines, learning about herbs
Dislikes: being scolded, venturing out of the domain, hunting for sport
Personality: Braeburn, or Brae as she prefers to be called, is quite calm and level headed. Where her older brother and sister are both harsh and strong, she reflects the calm of Autumn as the leaves change and the sky turns grey. Brae neither enjoys nor hates her visions, which come to her in many forms. She may see things in the wind, in the falling leaves, in the spray of rain or in the rolling fog. She can never tell when they happen, but her visions are rarely anything but vauge omens of ill health or accidents. Still, she uses them to find those in need of aid swiftly, bringing them back to the temple to be healed.

 

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Followers

this place is reserved for only the most dedicated followers of the Goddess, and the ones she comes to favour.  

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Offerings

Here is a display of what is laid upon the Alter in the Temple's great hall.


Aspen Chibi, offered by Petite-tiano

 

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