Cleansing Place
Overview
Near Jamestown Island is a living-history museum known as Jamestown Settlement. Costumed guides re-enact the daily lives of the colonials, demonstrating cooking, armor-smithing, and the hard life endured by the settlers in their wattle and daub, thatched-roofed houses. Within Jamestown Settlement can be found its "Indian Village," where visitors can enter and explore a wigwam while Native American interpreters clad in buckskin show how their ancestors cultivated gardens, constructed tools, wove baskets, and made pottery. Children are allowed to touch; hands-on learning is encouraged, in fact. At the far end of the Indian village, usually overlooked by the tourists but tables as "off limits" in any case, sits a sweat lodge.
The Nunnehi known as thought-crafters claim the "cleansing place" for themselves. Occasionally, a talented mortal (i.e., Dreamer) is enchanted and allowed within, then gifted with insight before they leave, but many of the Native American fae, such as Aiyana Flower-That-Blooms, prefer to inspire through their work as interpreters in the village. Within the lodge lies a gateway to the Umbra. Only those who have been properly cleansed in the sweat lodge may see the straight pathway and cross to the other world.
References
- CTD. Kingdom of Willows, pp. 72-73.