<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<section name="496">
The Hall of Ablution is a bit like a bathhouse except that the baths are full of sand, not water. The Uttakin purify themselves in sand as part of a religious ritual that goes back to the days when they were tribesmen in the deserts of Ankon-Konu, the southern continent. To be purified in the Hall of Ablution costs 50 Shards.
<choices>
<choice section="559" shards="50">Pay the money</choice>
<choice section="444">Return to the city centre</choice>
</choices>
</section>