Western Guardian

Western Guardian '
Western Guardian
Map Description
One of the ancient constructs known as the Guardians. This one regulates the western part of Miato.
Connecting Locations
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The Western Guardian is one of the ancient quasi-living constructs located in the Miato Region. Situated within a hidden enclave among the mountains of the Tiger's Eye Ridge, it is associated with the spring season and the classical element of earth.

Location

The Western Guardian may only be reached by a concealed mountain path, the entrance to which requires a special sigil to open. Only few know where the entrance is located, and the sigil that serves as its key has been kept for generations by a particular family – whom have been entrusted with the item and the knowledge that goes with it by the system itself. Should one manage to convince the current keeper of the sigil that this is necessary, she will guide them to Tiger's Eye Grove, where the sigil will reveal and open the hidden doorway in the sheer cliff face, allowing access to the mountain trail.

The trail is long, fraught with forks and hazards, but the sigil's natural attraction to the Guardian will lead those who follow it along the true path to the Guardian itself – a vast structure in the form of a tiger-like creature, in places overgrown with moss and plants, partially formed from the banded rocks of the ridge itself and partially of living marble veined with radiant, deep-green light.

Interior

The entrance into the structure's interior lies within one of the creature's massive paws. The Western Guardian's inner functions are facilitated, in part, through a symbiotic network of plants and fungi, and traversing the interior will often require influencing the growth of plants to bridge chasms, ascend climbing vines and revitalize sections of the structure that were previously barren.

The Heart Chamber

The Western Guardian's Heart Chamber resembles a lush tropical garden teeming with plantlife. The air is filled with the scent of flowers, moss and dew, and interface-nodes mesh organically with the growth. The Glyph at the heart of the chamber is protected by an empowered Sprairie and a persistently-generated Sylvan Orb which cannot be overridden by any other Pokémon's weather-affecting moves.