Day Gate

First Appearance and Context

The Day Gate is one of the named portals associated with the Mynster. Immediately outside it lies a man-made pond fed by an upstream aqueduct; a causeway runs across the pond, linking the burgers' town square at the north end to the Day Gate at the south. During a decennial opening, onlookers gathered around this approach as the community completed the sunrise rite and prepared to admit visitors under supervision.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Serves as the controlled portal for routine, permitted ingress from extramuros into the Concent of Saunt Edhar. A visitor described using the Day Gate in past years to attend lectures and read.
• On widely known openings such as Apert, outsiders expect the gates to operate on cue and assemble near the causeway and pond.
• Routing note: A riverside road toward the commerce district is described as eventually looping back to the Day Gate, situating it along that approach from town.
• In one recorded case, a foundling later known as Suur Tulia was discovered at the Day Gate.

Relationships

• Part of the same family of clock-actuated portals as the Year Gate, Decade Gate, and Centenarian Gate.
• The pond outside the Day Gate drains into hydraulic networks that operate those interval gates; these systems are dry except at Apert.

Descriptions/Characteristics

• Outside setting: a higher-elevation pond with twin fountains stands just beyond the gate. Monumental valves at the pond's floor feed ornamental channels and the long-interval gate systems. A straight causeway crosses the pond and focuses traffic between the town square and the gate.

Current Status/Location

In active use as the concent's controlled approach from town, positioned at the south end of the pond-spanning causeway. During a decennial opening, crowds assembled outside and the approach was used to manage visitors, consistent with the community's rules.