Temple



The temple is the primary place of worship of the gods. Although there are small shrines throughout Ehrenfest, the temple within the city is the only one in the duchy. It sits directly on the border between downtown and the Noble District. Throughout the year the temple holds several religious ceremonies.

There are two major sections in the temple. The first is the noble's quarters. This is where the rooms for the blue priests are. The grey priests and servants live in the same section but in a different area. This section contains the temple's library and the offertory hall where the Dedication Ritual is held.

The second section is the worship area and orphanage. These face the entrance from the lower city.

There are 2 main entrances to the temple one from the Noble District which we see for the first time when Myne goes on the trompe mission and must be opened by using mana. The other main gate is from the downtown, which is near the main entrances to the noble sector from the common sector. There is also a back gate which leads to the temple from the common sector. In the anime this is where Myne is seen entering the temple from the common sector.

The priests within the temple mainly fall into two groups: Nobles (blue robed) and orphans (grey-robed) who had nowhere else to go. Most of the nobles are normally rejected by their family due to low mana capacity complared to their family, an example of this is Bezewanst who from an Archnoble family but has laynoble mana and sent to the temple. Just before Myne joins the temple some of the noble families invite their rejected family back to became nobles to primary examples of this is Christine and also Shikikoza. Grey-priests are normally orphans from the downtown, an example of that is Dirk.

Within the temple, there is a hierarchy of command, from highest to lowest


 * The High Bishop
 * The High Priest
 * Blue-Robed Priests
 * Grey-Robed Priests
 * Apprentice Grey-Robed Priests
 * Unbaptised Orpahns

Blue-Robed priests hold high authority within the temple and are the ones who conduct religious ceremonies. Grey-robed priests, however, do menial labour around the temple and work as servants to the blue-robes. The caste system also plays a part in how food is distributed: Blue-robes eat first, then the grey-robes get their leftovers, finally the orphans get the leftovers from that. There is also hierarchy among the servants. Normally the oldest one becomes the head attendant and their words are the words of their master or mistress.

The temple takes from varies sources and activities that the Blue-robed priest perform. With most of the money to run the temple coming from Harvest Festival. Blue priest can also make money doing Baptism ceremonies, with High Bishop and High Priest costing the most to perform the ceremonies for nobles.

Myne sets up her printing business which also makes money for the temple with 10% profits going to the temple.

The money is divided up between the running cost of the temple and then the money is split between the blue priests. When Bezewanst was the High Bishop the money was split up as he saw fit, with Blue-priests which favoured him getting more of the money. When Rozemyne becames High Bishop, after the cost of running the temple is taken out 50% of the money is split between her and High priest with the remaining split up evenly between the blue-priests.


 * The Blue-Robed priests are looked down upon by nobles.
 * Nobles do not want to set foot inside the temple
 * Ferdinand joined/escaped to the temple to take himself out of Ehrenfest's politics