Alva seemed to consider the question seriously for a bit. "I think you need a priest of Balder for a good answer to that, but..." She broke out into a wide smile. "I have heard a few tavern songs that sounded more like prayers to devils and demons to me than prayers to the gods. But why don't I show you around a little, and maybe introduce you to a few people?"<br/><br/>Alva took the next half hour or so to show Mialla the temple and make some introductions. The temple itself was a fairly small affair. The main hall with the statues of Sif, Thor, and Odin took up half the temple building, but along the hallway that led from the main entrance to the hall were four smaller shrines, two on each side, one each dedicated to Uller, the bowman, Heimdall, the watchman, Frigga, goddess of birth and fertility, wife of Odin, and Freya, goddess of magic and poetry. "I guess she's the closest we have in this temple to a goddess of bards and music. Freya is a warrior goddess too, but she also concerns herself very much with magic and poetry," Alva explained, casting a thoughtful look at Mialla. "We don't have a priest of Freya here or you would have met her already, but anyone of the clergy can tell you at least some about her."<br/><br/>Aside from the four small shrines there wasn't much to see in the temple, except the entrance hall, which served as something of a trophy hall, displaying various pieces of armor and weapons, some in a style not commonly found in Lancrest or the Frontier Baronies. Among the more exotic pieces on display among the trophies were a crude wooden club too large for even a strong man to wield with both hands, the stuffed head of an owlbear mounted on a wooden board, and what appeared at first glance to be a crude, red plate, but turned out to be a large scale on closer examination.<br/><br/>Thier tour concluded, Alva introduced Mialla to a few of the villagers, among them the local stonemason, a half-orc named Tark, who had crafted several of the statues in the temple and gifted the temple with the statue of Heimdall.