Southern Guardian

Southern Guardian '
Southern Guardian
Map Description
One of the ancient constructs known as the Guardians. This one regulates the southern part of Miato.
Connecting Locations
	↑ Sandswept Ruins
←	Southern Guardian	→
	↓

The Southern Guardian is one of the ancient quasi-living constructs located in the Miato Region. Situated in an ocean inlet south of the Sandswept Ruins in the southern reaches of the Jeweled Desert, it is associated with the summer season and the classical element of fire.

Location

The Southern Guardian has been concealed beneath the ocean waves – and to access it, one must raise it back to the surface. This can be done through a secondary control system. Time (or perhaps more than time) has not been kind to the site where this control system was housed – and the decay and corruption of patterns within the elemental-powered systems once housed here have left the area volatile and prone to unusual phenomena. The key required to interface with the Southern Guardian's secondary control system – wrought in the form of a red stone figurine in the shape of a bird – has been removed from the site long ago by one of the research expeditions that attempted to investigate the ruins, and somehow found its way into the hands of Kara, whom had been studying it for a while and – upon discovering its intended purpose – is more than willing to return it to its rightful place. Locating the control mechanism and attaching the figurine to its place would allow one to raise the structure to the surface, like a phoenix from its ashes.

This is not merely a metaphor – the Southern Guardian is wrought in the shape of a great phoenix, crafted of dark volcanic rock, metal and the living-marble of the guardians, veins of radiant red-and-orange energies running through the structure like flowing lava. As the structure rises from the depths, a land bridge is formed to connect it to the opposite shore, the Phoenix's own "tail-feathers" snaking along its sides and forming something of a guard rail (though their sheer magnitude Makes them more decorative than truly protective).

Interior

The structure lies between the bird's talons, perched upon the black sand shore at the Guardian's base. Despite having spent however long underwater, the Southern Guardian's is still bone-dry, and quite warm and bright, regardless of the time of day – becoming increasingly brighter and hotter as one makes their way towards the Heart Chamber. The red glow of the energy veins flowing through the rocks is reflected in structures of ore and glass, and to advance through the structure, one may be required to direct light through glass structure or heat through metal connectors set within insulating blocks, providing energy to assorted systems and opening new paths.

The Heart Chamber

The Southern Guardian's Heart Chamber resembles a scorching desert with the sun at the highest point. Interface-nodes are built into rock formations jutting out of the sand, and the blazing heat causes the air to waver and distort. The Glyph at the heart of the chamber is protected by an empowered Summorgana and the pervasive harsh sunlight cannot be overridden by any other Pokémon's weather-affecting moves.