At temples requiring constant security, a midnight shift is also added. Guard shifts usually change at mid-day and again at evening prayer. There is never a shortage of time for temple guardians to contemplate spiritual matters. The rest of the guardian's day is spent patrolling temple grounds or performing watch duties near important holy relics.
A Day in the LifeĪ temple guardian's daily routine begins with directing gathered worshippers to make way for arriving priests. Some cults ensure this behaviour by telling particularly horrid tales of the fate that awaits such traitors in the afterlife, while others simply encourage temple guardians to keep a close eye on one another, rewarding with great wealth any accusation of theft or disloyalty that proves to be true. They are expected to be above reproach, and to resist the temptation to steal from their own temples. Temple Guardians are chosen, not from amongst the brightest members of a congregation, who would be far better put to use elsewhere, but rather from among those whose skills lie in a more physical area. Of course, it turned out I was stood outside the wrong door." - Ernst Bluchard, ex-temple guard of Manann
" I stood outside the shrine for thirty days and thirty nights, without fail.
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