Pelorgan House of Healing

Purpose / Function

Supplies healing services to the public and to private citizens. Supplies spell scrolls for coin, clerics for wandering healers.

Design

There is not much distinction between houses, even the simplest to the most complex are generally the same. The more complicated houses generally have bigger rooms or more rooms. For the most part, the houses are one to two rooms: a healing room and a sleeping room. The more rooms usually are to facilitate greater needs, such as the Great Pelorgan House in Dalth'it . This house has seven rooms for entirely different purposes.

Rooms

The healing room is always at the center along with an altar to Pelor, a sunburst gilded with gold, or made of copper or brass to shine brilliantly when the sun smiles upon it. The sleeping room is always off to the side along the back length of the House. The bigger houses may support an entry room to receive preliminary checks or ask simple questions. Another room may be for cooking meals for the hungry, though in the smaller houses this is generally done in the healing room. Another room may be for the wounded that need extended treatement, and yet another for those who are to receive a final blessing from Pelor to absolve their sins with hopes of being taken into his domain. Lastly, the house in Dalth'it prides itself with an armory specifically for clerics and paladins to receive their weapons. In fact, most paladins and clerics of Pelor come to the Dalth'it house in order to receive these weapons, believing them to be special in power.

Sensory & Appearance

Sweet incense burns while the doors are open. Offerings can also be smelled when entering. Some ivy and moss if they can grow do so at the entrance, wrapping themselves around the pillars in fanciful sight.

Denizens

The workers of the houses, sometimes called Villagers or Workers, wear robes in the dazzling bright colors of Pelor. The staff is usually split between agriculturalists and healers, though some paladins wander in from time to time to refresh their knowledge of Pelor and study his texts.

Contents & Furnishings

Pelorgan Houses are minimal in furnishings. All have at least one pew and a few chairs to assist the weary.

Alterations

Over the centuries the simple temples evolved from single pillars to groups of pillars to walled establishments.

Architecture

Storied friezes and elaborate entablatures surmount spiral pillars of marble or sandstone or yellow-sandstone, often called sunstone due to its hue and usage in Pelorian architecture. The roofs are generally flat and high, leaving a circular opening above the altars in the center of the houses. The roofs are sunstone tiles, sometimes gilded or painted yellow and with white sunbursts.

History

The city of Hlee then was no more than a collection of walls and small buildings. While the main temple to Pelor was built in Hlee , the first of his houses come in the fields surrounding the southern plains of the Hlee plateau. There were predominately built for travelers to be healed before entering the city. This greatly reduced the diseases entering the city that the city's clerics couldn't heal quickly enough. It also helped strengthen the pantheon in the minds of the people who had begun to consider Chauntea the more useful and helpful deity. The farmers and cattle-herders of Elysia purchased idols or icons of Pelor to put next to their altars to Chauntea.
The houses really exploded with popularity, however, when the unfortunate Clannish Wars broke out across the country. These houses were considered safe spaces for all clans invovled. Indeed, several warring clans would stop fighting to protect the house from another clan that lumbered through. All the clans considered killing a member of the Pelorgan Houses a capital offense, and would pause any skirmish to enact retribution.
Even during the War of the Throne the conflicting parties steered clear of Pelorgan Houses, though some members of the houses were bribed or threatened to not help the other side. The houses never listened and no punished was handed them.

Tourism

The few tourists who come to such places rarely come without mortal reason. Most visitors are in need of their services or wish to continue a scholastic or priestly service. The best healers in the country usually started as simple healers in these blessed houses.

Alternative Names

House of Healing, Healing House, House of Pelor, Sun Healer House

Type

Hospital

Parent Location

Evoria

Environmental Effects

Any plants in the Houses attract humidity, but all the areas away from the lush greeneries are dry as the desert and sun.