Votive pillar

Located at the intersection of Cherry Lane and Spruce Lane, the votive pillar is an approximately three foot pillar of marble with a small fire located at the apex. Like other items of suspected Underhillian origin, the marble used in the pillar has a cream base with veins of deep green, silver, and black. This type is distinct from the infamous Black Marble popular with the Lily Civilization and has no known formal name.

The pillar seems to have functioned as a form of primitve street lamp or beacon; the fire in the basin never goes out, despite the fact that there is visible grass and herbs feeding the flames. A plethora of worn and scattered flagstones along Spruce Lane heavily suggest that it had once been a more major road, worthy of a monument or artifact of this sort. The votive pillar was once carved with runes (perhaps Old Yuriban onomatoglyphs) but time has rendered them illegible. However, carvings on top of the pillar have weathered the ages better, appearing to depict leaves in the wind on the western edge and the phases of the moon on the eastern edge. It seems very likely that these are references to the goddesses Akibimi and Engetsu, probably in connection to the legends linking them to the mountains in the proper respective locations, Akibimi-san to the northwest and Engetsu-san to the northeast.