House of Wind
Apr 23, 2010 20:35:45 GMT -7
Post by 👺 Usiel on Apr 23, 2010 20:35:45 GMT -7
House of Wind
Kaze Buzoku
Kaze Buzoku
The House of Wind appears to be a brilliant Japanese style temple with three stories to it constructed within five hundred acres of land. The primary structure of the complex is the largest of the structures that are within the walls of the area, lying at the center of the vast landscape within the four walls. It is not the only structure within the area though, at each of the four corners of the walled in area lies a decent sized shrine, each one with a stone that looks like the Stone of Wind. At the Shrine of the South Wind a single woman dressed in a Shrine Maiden’s attire appears to be praying with four men dressed as her guard nearby.
A vast garden of stones lies in front of the building, each one carefully placed by the residence of the temple. Yet stones of various sizes are not the only thing within this garden, Sakura trees line the path that leads to the main entrance of the building. Roughly forty meters to the left of the main structure one can find a small pond roughly fifteen meters long and seven meters across. Several flat surfaced stones covered with moss can be found scattered around the area of the pond with small lavender plants circling around it. At the front, most gate of the structure one will always find two men garbed as shrine guardians each with a katana at their side. Surrounding the complex is a wall of eight meters in height, which is patrolled at regular intervals by four groups five men. Out behind the main complex one is able to find a courtyard filled with training dummies and equipment, along with roughly ten men training with staves and hook swords.
The ever-open main entrance of the first floor consists of the large prayer room lined with tatami mats, a statue of the Buddha with one of the sacred Buddhist marks over its heart at the far end and a phrase engraved upon its pedestal. “The path to Enlightenment lies within the heart of the Buddha.” Torches line the walls of the large hall with the only visible path on the far left wall leading to a large dining hall attached to a small kitchen. To the far left of the dining hall, a well-lit staircase can be seen that leads up to the second floor. Not being quite so grand as the lower floors the second floors consists of nothing but a long hallway lined with plain rooms, the sleeping quarters for those that reside at the temple. Within the main complex there is also a secret pass that is the only way to get to the third floor, beyond its hidden entrance is a small ‘tunnel’ with a ladder leading to the third floor. At the top of the ladder is a short hallway that leads to a room with a stone that appears to be the Stone of Wind guarded by an aged man dressed as a monk. The room connected to the hall is rather small, roughly twenty meters in width and thirty meters in length with a low ceiling only three meters up.