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[[File:Vineta_Temple.jpg|250px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">The Vineta Temple.</div> ]]
The '''Vineta Temple''', also known as '''Hvíturtemplet''', which means "white temple" in the [[Froyalanish]] and [[Wintergleamish]] languages, is a [[Froyalanish Ancient Ways|Vanic]] Temple which is situated on the outskirts of the [[Tuulersbýur|Royal City of Tuulersbýur]].

==Name==
The temple derives its name from a semi-mythical [[Valtia|Valtian]] trading town called Vineta which was situated in the vincinity of the temple's location. Vineta was destroyed when a gargantuan tsunami caused by the [[Valtias Forlǫg|cataclysm]] that destroyed Valtia struck the coast.

The name of Vineta Temple was bestowed upon the temple complex by means of a [[Gyllmára Búlla]] which was issued by the [[Jólaslafðir]] prior to its initial dedication. Its other name of Hvíturtemplet (white temple) is derived from the white garments the [[Elwynn (Goddess)|Goddess Elwynn]] often wears, and it is in her honour that temple complex has been mainly constructed with white building materials. 

==About==
Owing to the ancient and speicial ties between the Vineta Temple and the [[House of Ettlingar Freyu]], the Vineta Temple is nowadays regarded as one of the [[List of Royal Residences|official residences]] of the [[Royal Family of Elwynn]]. In consequence thereof the temple is guarded by the Garde de la Reine Sacrée/Beakyr Taarion Hyel, a Joint Unit of the [[Fleur de Lys-Longships Guard]] and the [[Vanic Temple Guard]] which serves at [[Mount Yaanek]], the [[Tower of Araxion]], the Vineta Temple, and Mount Yaanek Temple and Palace in the [[Eliria|Kingly City of Eliria]].

==History==
The temple was built by King Arkadius I of Batavia as a gift for his Queen Consort [[Lafði]] Ærinndís des Vinandy of [[House of Ettlingar Freyu|Ettlingar Freyu]] - who is the sister of [[Harald of Ettlingar Freyu]] - after She had given birth to their daughter Princess Fränzi-Ferdinanda, who would many years later would become Queen Regnant of Batavia.

Due to the many woes and turmoils the Kingdom of Batavia went through in the latter years of its existence, the Vineta Temple was abandoned and fell into disrepair. Subsequent to the Furthest of the [[Far West]], the [[Elwynn (Goddess)|Lady Elwynn]] Herself ordered [[King Noah]] of [[Elwynn]] to reconstruct the temple. The [[King of Elwynn|King]], of course, happily obliged. The Vineta Temple is these present days solely dedicated to the [[Elwynn (Goddess)|White Orchid Goddess]]. 

==Trivia==
*The Vineta Temple is the first temple which [[Fjǫrleif Hallbjörnsdóttir|Fjǫrleif Llængjarla]] of the Houses of [[House of Ayreon-Kalirion|Ayreon-Kalirion]] and of the [[House of Ettlingar Freyu|Descendants of Freyja]] consecrated after she had become the High Priestess of the Mackerel Temple.
*The temple and its premises are considered by the [[Vanafolk]] to be among the holiest places of the Furthest of the [[Far West]].

[[Category:Froyalanish Ancient Ways]]