wind rooms

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Room of the North wind
A cluttered mess of decaying strings, thin tarnished chains and smashed wood fills this room like a sagging spider's web, still attached to hooks and supports on the walls and ceiling in some places, and hanging limply from other parts of the web where they are not. Though long unused and obviously subject to malicious abuse at some point or other, some inkling of this room's previous purpose could be gleaned from the sail and pinwheel-shaped elements of wood that remain. The room bears large window-slits in the walls, devoid of glass, allowing both the breeze to come in and the visitor to view a sprawling section of the now-overgrown shrine gardens and the forest beyond.

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Gallery of the West wind


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Chamber of the East wind
The center of this room bears what appears to be a large stone altar, carved from white marble. It looks to have been too heavy to push over as the marauders who attacked the rest of the temple might have wanted to, but all the other elements of the room have been broken or stolen to compensate. Crude markings and foul scrawls of language splash the walls of this room, and rough gouges have been hacked into the frames of the large window-slits that allow the wind into the room should it be blowing in the right direction.

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Hall of the South wind