[OOC Board] Eternal Galaxy: Phoenix

The impact knocked Ignis unconscious, but the craft remained intact as it came to rest amongst the trees of the forest.

Some time passes...
Ignis starts slightly, the sounds of the forest wildlife outside slowly brings her back to consciousness. She looks up faintly and sees the gentle glow of the sunlight filtering through the foliage. Still dazed slightly, she unbuckles herself from the pilot seat and stumbles forward. After regaining composure, she reaches down and opens a small hatch of a storage compartment under the seat. Inside was an emergency system with a beacon and some flares. Slowly, she turns on the Beacon and takes out one flare. Ignis then makes her way to the hatch of the ship, grabbing her battle scythe, Reaver X, on her way. Pushing open the door out, she takes a moment to get some sort of bearings on where she was. Small little creatures glowing with Gaia energy floated among the trees and shrubbery. The whole scene felt as though she was in some sort of fairy tale. Ignis stood wide eyed for a little while longer before returning to her original task. Igniting the flare in hand, she situated it in a crack in the hull of her ship. The red glowing smoke rose up through the foliage creating a moderate column of color that could be seen easily against the green and blue of forest and sky.

After watching the column of smoke form, Ignis then looked around the forest. There were sounds of creatures trilling softly in the canopy above and the hum of others in the shrubs below. A moment passed, she gave into curiosity and started to explore. She wandered away from her ship and into the thick of the forest. Inadvertently she was heading towards the Shrine.

Shrine of Seasons

This shrine existed as a center of the power of four sacred nymphs that embodied the seasons of continent of Mana on Alcyon.
Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water were the four elements that represented the four seasons.
The four nymphs, each one representing one of the four elements, governed the seasons through the shrine.

The Nymphs depicted respectively are
Napaeae
Lampadesa
Aurae
Limnadesa (aka Kiara)

Wind -> Spring -> Aurae
Fire -> Summer -> Lampadesa
Earth -> Fall -> Napaeae
Water -> Winter -> Limnadesa (aka Kiara)

The shrine is divided into four parts, a section for each.
hidden deep within are five Corlaviri Crystals which help control the seasons, four of which are for the individual seasons with one master crystal. If these were removed from the Shrine, the continent's seasons would be thrown into chaos still not a LoZ: OoS reference.

Each crystal is buried deep within the shrine, typically only accessible through the respective elements.
The master crystal is a keystone that contains a piece of Aurora's code.

The Shrine is in four quadrants pointing in the four cardinal directions with a central hub.
Respective to the list above, the sections go counterclockwise starting at the west.

The regions of Mana also represent this, with the mild groves of the western regions, the arid plains of the southern regions, the temperate forests of the eastern regions, and the frozen mountains in the northern region.

The reason the Shrine is in the southwestern forest is due to the abundance of Aura energy there. The forest served as a safe haven for the Nymphs and therefore was ideal for the shrine.