Temple

The Temple is the primary place of worship to the Gods. Although there are small shrines throughout Ehrenfest, the Temple within the city is the only one in the territory. It sits directly on the border between Downtown and the Noble District.

Baptism
Once a season, the church holds a ceremony where all children born within the season to be baptized that have come of age receive their baptism, a ritual in which their citizenship is officially recognized. Following the baptism, children become eligible for business apprenticeships.

Starbind Ceremony
The marriage ceremony is called the Starbind Ceremony and happens once a year in late Autumn. All the commoners who are getting married dress in their season’s noble color and go to the temple to get married.

Caste System
The priests within the church mainly fall into two groups: nobles, and orphans who had nowhere else to go. They are identified by the color of their robes; blue for nobles and gray for orphans.

Within the Temple, there is a hierarchy of command, from highest to lowest, the hierarchy goes:


 * The High Bishop
 * The Head Priest
 * Blue-Robed Priests
 * Apprentice Blue-Robed Priests
 * Gray-Robed Priests
 * Apprentice Gray-Robed Priests
 * Unbaptized Orphans

Blue-robed priests hold high authority within the church and are the ones who conduct religious ceremonies. Gray-robed priests, however, do menial labor around the church 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 gray-robes get their leftovers, finally the orphans gets the leftovers from that.

Temple Trivia

 * The Blue-Robed Priests are looked down upon by the Nobles and general noble society does not want part of the Temple or even like setting foot in the building.
 * Blue-Robed Priests are generally nobles which are born with low mana compared to their family, so the family makes them join the Temple.
 * Due to the Purge in Ehrenfest, many nobles were killed, so the families of the blue priests invited quite a few back to rejoin their families.
 * Ferdinand is one of the exceptions to the rule, he joined the church to take himself out of the politics of Ehrenfest.