Tithe to the Nymphs

Across the softer parts of the satyr culture exist the nymph. While they have many purposes and tasks, one of them is to tend to and supply the massive communal baths that take up a good portion of the satyr-cities of Parnathum. While the scope of the role is not a part of this discussion, what is to be discussed is the nature of giving back that community love and patience to someone who cares for a place of sacred importance.

It's more than payment, it's taking the exploitation out of a task that often seems endless.

The clay coins of the cities might get damaged, and harvests are awkward to place anywhere but the entrances to the baths - and so small exchange chambers are set into the baths, often at their centres. Here, muds, balms, combs and dustsare exchanged for gifts, and the services of nymphs can specially be asked for when specific care is needed.

History

It was not thieves that started these tithe rooms, but the slowly expanding nature of the baths, and the danger of transporting unbound payments from one edge of the baths to another. The act of carrying coin across the baths began to feel demeaning and the nymphs of the time started to help less and less the centres of the baths - where the water was often deepest and the tallest and broadest of the satyr were beginning to congregate.

These larger satyr banded together to coax the nymph to come and talk to them, bringing their concerns to a welcoming ear and eagar hands. These larger satyr then brought the designers and builders, who proceeded to work on these dry rooms, with their airlock like design for things like moisture with specially placed coarse rocks, designed to keep the gifts safe from the natural wet and humid nature of the baths.



It is not recorded where placing coins here turned from just storage, to a carefully arranged shrine to those nymphs who work the baths closest to the exchange room, clay depictions of nebulous nymph placed above an ornate painted vase to collect the coins placed there, often with the satyr pressing the coin to their chest in a mark of devotion before they place the coin.