the resting place of a minor saint’s distal pinky bone
2
the center of a hero-cult (the hero of which has since been proven by historians to not really have done much of what they’re claimed to)
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dedicated to the veneration of an emperor as a living god
4
the dwelling of a local spirit
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a marker of the site where a seer received a crucial vision
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where a miraculous spring burbled up from the earth
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, but now it’s
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spattered with bird shit.
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charred and soot-stained.
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the den of feral pigs.
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half-buried in a trash heap.
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the subject of drunkards’ ghost stories.
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a scandalous relic of a different time.
D6
This shrine lies
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at the mouth of a sketchy alley.
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in the crook of a dry creek-bed.
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at the foot of a mountain that passing eons have worn down to a molehill.
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amid a grove of dying trees.
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in an apartment complex’s courtyard. It was here long before the complex was.
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beside a bathhouse built to accommodate pilgrims visiting it, which fell on hard times after the shrine fell out of favour.
D6
This shrine is still sometimes visited by
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the ghost of a monk who once tended it.
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a gang of orphans who use it for fanciful rites that bear little resemblance to its original purpose.
3
an elderly knight who refuses to abandon traditions older than they are.
4
an age-stooped wizard studying its esoteric properties.
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an insincere wayfarer who hopes their displays of continued devotion will buy them better intercessions.
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a disinterested functionary required by some mandate too obscure to be revoked to perform the most basic maintenance of it.
D6
If you make an offering of
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fresh flowers
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blood
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a gold coin
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honey cakes
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a poem
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cleaning it up a bit
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here, you will receive
1
a blessing that allows you to survive the next time you face certain death, if only by the skin of your teeth.
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a benevolent aura that will cause others to react more favourably to you until the sun next sets. The shrine can’t grant anything between dusk and dawn though.
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succour equivalent to a good night’s sleep and a hearty meal, but only once.
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protection from any enemies that find you at the shrine.
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an oracular dream that guides you a bit closer to your driving goal.
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the ability to see and touch the immaterial (and be seen and touched by the same) for a day and a night.
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