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Use: Allows you to interact with the swords near ancient shrines granting you the ability to reach inaccessible relic treasures.
Requires The Archivists' Codex - Tier 5
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How to Get Cataloged Research

Last Updated: March 3, 2022 by Archdruid Andoris 3 Comments

When I first started playing patch 9.1 of Shadowlands, I was a little confused on how the new currency, cataloged research, worked. With many hours in Korthia now under my belt, I figured I would write a quick guide on how to farm this odd currency. Let’s walk through how you can obtain and farm cataloged research and some WeakAuras and addons that can help.

What is Cataloged Research?

Cataloged research is a currency introduced in Shadowlands patch 9.1 associated with the Archivist’s Codex faction. It is used to upgrade conduits and catch-up gear and buy sockets. To earn it, you need to turn in relics to Archivist Roh-Suir in Korthia at 62.74, 22.56.

But, how do you find relics to turn in?

In the rest of this guide, I will walk you through each way you can acquire relics in Korthia. This includes daily treasures, daily quests, rares, All-Seeing Crystal mobs, one-time quests, weekly quests, covenant assaults, and through the Oribos vendor.

1. Daily treasures

One of the first things you will notice in Korthia is a large number of treasures to collect. These can be collected daily to receive more items to redeem for cataloged research .

Unfortunately, these treasures limit how many you can collect each day and still receive relics. Here are the daily caps for each of the treasures:

If you want to track how many of each treasure you have looted today, you can use something like this Korthia checklist WeakAura . It works by showing you how many you can still collect for the day.

The best way to find these treasures is to roam around the zone, looking for the chest icon on your minimap. Once you have collected them a few times, you will notice a pattern in which they spawn.

These treasures are also a good source of Soultwining Crescent , an upgrade item for conduits. If you still have conduits that need upgrading, you should definitely check out my guide to upgrading conduits in patch 9.1 .

2. Daily quests

On top of the treasures, you can also earn cataloged research from daily quests. These can be picked up in Keeper’s Respite and award about 300 research every day.

At the time of writing this, I have a quest that gives you 2 Perplexing Rune-Cube for completion. Getting that 300 research for a quest that takes about a minute is great!

3. Rare mobs

In addition to collecting relics from treasures, you can also obtain them from killing rare mobs. Rares in Korthia and Desmotaeron, the new Maw area north of the Beastwarrens, can be looted every day to get more cataloged research .

Instead of listing out the location of each of the rares, I highly recommend you download the HandyNotes and HandyNotes: Shadowlands addons. These will make your life so much easier by placing skulls on your map at rare spawn points.

And, if you hover over the skulls, it gives you detail on how to summon/find the rare. Even better, once you defeat a rare for the day, HandyNotes removes it from the map until everything resets the next day!

Rares in the Rift

As an important side note, there are several rare mobs you can defeat in the Korthian rift. This “rift” is an alternate reality in Korthia that requires you to use a Repaired Riftkey on a rift portal. You can get a Repaired Riftkey as a drop from rare mobs in Korthia or purchase them with 100 cataloged research after obtaining Tier 4 rep with Archivist’s Codex.

After getting a key, you can enter a rift portal. The location of the portals is shown in the HandyNotes addon. Once you enter the portal, you will have 15 minutes to explore Korthia and the Maw before it wears off.

Image of rift portal in Korthia WoW Shadowlands.

Some rares in the rift will require you to “pull them out.” This means that you can click on them to take them back to the non-rift Korthia. If you do this, you will also leave the rift and the remaining time on your riftkey.

As an alternative to using a Repaired Riftkey , you can obtain an item called Collapsing Riftstone . This will allow you and a party or raid group to enter the rift.

The best source of Collapsing Riftstone is Zovaal’s Vault. This large chest is found in the rift that can be dragged behind your character and opened after reaching the bridge between the Beastwarrens and Ve’nari’s Refuge (44.7, 51.5). You can do this daily, but it does require a Repaired Riftkey to obtain in the first place.

4. All-Seeing Crystal mobs

Once you reach rank 2 with the Archivist’s Codex faction, you can purchase a Research Report: All-Seeing Crystal from Archivist Roh-Suir. This will allow you to “see” mobs carrying relics. You can kill 15 of these mobs every day to net yourself more relics.

I have to be honest; I purchased this at rank 2 and then forgot about it. The animation that indicates that a mob will drop relics is very subtle.

To help you out, I found an example of what the mobs look like and recorded this 5-second video clip:

From my experience, it is primarily humanoids that carry the relics around. So, if you are serious about farming research, make sure to defeat all 15 mobs each day. The number you have killed is also tracked in the Korthia checklist WeakAura I mentioned earlier.

5. One-time quests

Another last way you can obtain cataloged research is through single turn-in quests. These are quests to return large artifacts to Archivist Roh-Suir. There are a total of 20 of these quests, and each one rewards 250 cataloged research .

The number of items you can collect is based on your Tier reputation with Archivist’s Codex. When you reach the next tier, you can collect more artifacts.

Where you get the artifact quests from also changes based on your tier. For the first tier, you can simply collect the artifacts from the location. At tier 2, you need to purchase keys from Archivist Roh-Suir to open chests. For the 3 rd tier, you will need a Teleporter Repair Kit to enter one of the two chambers in Korthia.

At tier 4, you will find the artifact quests in the rift. And finally, tier 5 requires you to complete several puzzles after purchasing Research Report: Ancient Shrines from Archivist Roh-Suir.

You can find a detailed guide to each of the quests on Wowhead. For now, here is a summary of each artifact, tier requirement, waypoint, and other requirements. Sorry if the table looks a little funky on mobile, I am working on a better solution…

6. Weekly Quest

Patch 9.1.5 introduced a new weekly quest that awards 1,000 catalogued research for players who have reached tier 4 with the Archivists’ Codex. It is called Lost Research and requires you to enter into a rift portal to collect 25 Korthian Repository.

My best advice for finishing the quest quickly is to focus on looting the 4 caches and killing rares. If you kill non-rares, you will find that the drop rate is extremely low and you might not finish within the 15 minute limit of your rift key. You can always form a group if you can’t kill the rares alone because they will almost always drop the quest item.

7. Covenant Assaults

You can also get cataloged research from completing the bi-weekly covenant assaults in the Maw . These require you to complete 4 quests and a short scenario quest at the end.

The first of these assaults starts on Tuesday and ends Thursday night on NA servers. You can then work on the 2nd assault from Thursday to Tuesday. Upon finishing my 2nd covenant assault this week I received 300 cataloged research !

So make sure you are completing both assaults each week if you are trying to farm more research.

8. Oribos Vendor

If you are not into farming rares and treasure chests, and only want cataloged research, you can also purchase it from a vendor named Ko’tul in Oribos. You can find Ko’tul standing next to the guild bank near the Great Vault at 63.8, 36.0.

Ko’tul sells 500 cataloged research in the form of a Bundle of Archived Research in exchange for a single Attendant’s Token of Merit . These tokens are obtained through your weekly vault selection. Instead of choosing a piece of gear, you can select 3 Attendant’s Token of Merit each week.

As an important note, obtaining research through the vendor doesn’t give you rep with the Archivist’s Codex at the time of writing. Hopefully, that changes through a hotfix or in the next patch!

Final Thoughts

If you are looking to farm cataloged research, the best thing to do is focus on collecting treasures, killing rares, and completing quests every day. It is a pretty slow currency to obtain but fortunately had the cap removed in a recent hotfix so you can stockpile it. I hope this was helpful!

Thanks for reading!

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About Archdruid Andoris

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Reader Interactions

November 11, 2022 at 8:17 am

Great stuff! Appreciate the work, returning player here and was doing some last minuet catch up as I quit in S1/SL so very helpful thanks! Hope to see you continue the guides in DragonFlight!

August 31, 2021 at 8:16 pm

Great article! You can also buy them at the vendor by the vault in Oribos with the currency that’s available the alternative choice in the vault.

August 31, 2021 at 10:26 pm

Thanks, and thank you for that tip. I will update the article for future readers!

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Full Guide: Korthian Gear / 233 ilvl upgrade / reputation / new currency / vendor / 9.1 conduit / 9.1 sockets

This guide contains

What gear can I upgrade and how to get it

What ilvl can I upgrade

The tiers are tied to reputation, how to farm reputation with the archivist´s codex, what is the currency and what does the archivist roh-suir vendor sell, best way to farm cataloged research, how to start and complete the ”scholar rohsur´s questline”, how to unlock the other ranks, how to learn vestige of origins, what gear can i upgrade and how to get korthian gear.

You get certain type of gear in 9.1 that you get from Korthia. There is no specific name of this gear, so I will call it Korthian gear.

Korthian gear has the ilvl 200 and can be upgraded all the way to 233 ilvl.

You get Korthian gear from:

From Rares in Korthia that has a chance on dropping it.

You can start upgrading Korthian gear once you have unlocked the Archivist Roh-Suir. This is done by completing the Archivist Roh-Suir questline. Check out how to unlock it further down in this guilde.

There are 6 ranks in total and each rank gives a specific ilvl.

You can upgrade Korthian gear at the same place as pvp gear and covenant gear. You can also upgrade at Assistant Scholar Kahvez located in Keeper´s Respite in Korthia.

The maximum upgrade of this gear is 233.

Rank 2-4 is unlocked when completing the "Scholar Roh-Suir´s questline". Check out the guide on how to do it further down in this guide.

Rank 5 and Rank 6 are unlocked when you get to Tier 6 with Scholar Roh-Suir and buy a speicifc items from him. Check out the guide on how to do it further down in this guide.

Rank 1 200 ilvl

Rank 2 207 ilvl

Rank 3 213 ilvl

Rank 4 220 ilvl

Rank 5 226 ilvl

Rank 6 233 ilvl

Tier 2 research requires 3000 reputation.

Tier 3 research requires 4500 reputation.

Tier 4 research requires 6500 reputation.

Tier 5 research requires 11000 reputation.

Tier 6 research requires ? reputation.

You get reputation with them by turning in Relic Fragments and Cataloged Research items .

Relic Fragments

Rares in Korthia
Treasure chests in Korthia
Korthia activities
Some mobs drop but you don´t know which one until later when you buy a special item.
Special Rares You will fight waves of adds that drops in total around 50 Relics and in the end a big rare that drops around 40 Relics. In total you get more than 100 Relics from this.
Quests Scattered through Korthia, these quests rewards 500 reputation each. See futher down on farming Cataloged Research where these quests are.

The higher ranks you get the more ways you will have to obtain more relics.

Cataloged Research

It is only pure Cataloged Research items that rewards reputation when you turn them in to Archivist Roh-Suir.

Them item is written the following under the title: "Generate X Cataloged Research when you deliver to Archivist Roh-Suir to further his research into the Archivist Codex.

The "X" can be anything from 5 to 300 Cataloged Reseach.

You get half of the amount Cataloged Research in reputation.

These items are obtained from following:

Korthia Rare loot
Chests in Korthia
Treasures in Korthia
Daily quest rewards in Korthia
Weekly Quest in Korthia
The 2 weekly assaults in the Maw.

At Tier 2 You can buy an item at the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor called Research Report: All-Seeing Crystal, that allows you to see creatures who are carrying Relic Fragments.

You can buy an item at the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor called Korthian Archivists' Key which opens certain locked chests in Korthia that have Relics inside.

You get a quest to locate 4 chests ( see the guide here on how to find them ). Once you located them, you get rewarded 2000 reputation in total.

At Tier 3 You can buy an item at the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor called Teleporter Repair Kit that allows access to teleporters that most likely have relics inside (not confirmed).

At Tier 4 You can buy an item at the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor called Repaired Riftkey that allows entrance to Rift Portals in Korthia that most likely have relics inside (not confirmed).

At Tier 5 You can buy an item at the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor called Research Report: Ancient Shrines that allows you to interact with the swords near ancient shrines granting you the ability to reach inaccessible Relic treasures that most likely have relics inside (not confirmed).

You can buy an item at the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor called Research Report: Relic Finding Techniques that grants you a 20% chance to find more relic fragments when looting rares and treasures in Korthia.

The new currency is called Cataloged Research. You get this currency when turning in Relic Fragments. 1 Relic Fragment gives 1 Cataloged Research.

The vendor unlocks gear based on your reputation with him. You have to enter Tier 2 to be able to start buying stuff.

At Tier 2 reputation

Korthian Archivists' Key Use: Opens a relic chest in Korthia.

At Tier 3 reputation

Teleporter Repair Kit Repair ancient teleporters in Korthia, allowing access to hidden vaults and secret locations.

At Tier 4 reputation

Repaired Riftkey Allows entrance to Rift Portals in Korthia. You can stay within a Rift for 15 minutes.
Recipe: Crafter's Mark of the Chained Isle Teaches you the recipe for Crafter's Mark of the Chained Isle, an optional reagent that increases the item level of a crafted piece of gear to 230.
Research Report: Careful Examination Gain 50% more Cataloged Research when turning in Relic Fragments.
Treatise: Recognizing Stygia and its Uses Loot 10 extra Stygia every time you complete a Maw daily or kill a Maw rare.

At Tier 5 reputation

Research Report: Ancient Shrines Allows you to interact with the swords near ancient shrines granting you the ability to reach inaccessible Relic treasures.
Treatise: The Study of Anima and Harnessing Every Drop Loot 15 extra Reservoir Anima every time you complete a Shadowlands World Quest or kill a Shadowlands rare.
Research Report: Relic Finding Techniques Grants you a 20% chance to find more relic fragments when looting rares and treasures in Korthia.

At Tier 6 reputation

Treatise: Relics Abound in the Shadowlands Grants you the ability to find relics that grants bonus reputation with the Shadowlands zone factions when completing World Quests and defeating rare creatures in their realms.
Research Report: Adaptive Alloys Allows you to upgrade your items from Korthia and the Maw to Rank 5 (226 ilvl).
Research Report: First Alloys Allows you to upgrade your items from Korthia and the Maw to Rank 6 (233 ilvl).
Codex of Untapped Soulbinding – PH Use: Discover an upgrade to a random Conduit from among your lowest item level Conduits, up to item level 252.
Spatial Realignment Apparatus mk2 NYI Add a socket to a Shadowlands Season 2 item that does not already have one. Can be used on Helms, Necks, Bracers, Belts, or Rings.

Soaring Razorwing Mount Costs 7500 Stygia

Cataloged Research is the currency to upgrade Korthian gear and also buy items from the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor.

There are several ways to farm this.

By turning in Relic Fragments. See further up in this guide on different ways to farm Relics.
The questline with Archivist Roh-Suir rewards Cataloged Research from different quests. They can reward 500 Cataloged Research.

You can find quests inside treasures in Korthia that rewards 250 Cataloged Research.

When Rank 2

When Rank 3

You will be able to repair ancient teleporters.

You can only repair one when there is a rare that spawned inside it.

One of the rares is called Xyraxz, located in 44.94,35.53.

Killing this rare rewards the quest Obelisk of Dark Tidings. Completing this quest rewards 500 Cataloged Research.

Two new quests (Entering the Rift)

Once you reach 4000 reputation after reaching Rank 3, you will get a quest called "Mysterious Rifts" and "Relic Efficiency". These quests unlocks the item "Repaired Riftkey". This Riftkey lets you enter rifts in Korthia. Inside a rift is still Korthia, but other types of mobs and little ghosty environment. You will find 4 quests in here that you turn in to the Archivist. Each quest rewards 500 reputation and 500 Cataloged Research.

This questline will unlock so you can upgrade certain outdoor gear all the way up to 233 ilvl.

It says that you have to finish the questline that starts with the quest “Interrupt the Interrogations”

In order to get the quest, you must unlock it. You unlock it by completing chapter 2 in the
Head to location 59, 57 in Korthia (see map below).

Talk to Scholar Ruh-Suir and accept the quest “Interrupt the Interrogations”.
Once completed accept the two new quests “Carving Out a Path” and “The Sundered Staff”

The turn in on these quests are on another location, check map.

Once completed, accept the two new quests “An Infusion of Anima” and “Consulting the Experts”.
Once completed, accept the quest “Hope Ascending” that goes fast to do, then accept the quest “Finding One´s True Purpose”.
Once completed, you get the quest “Establishing the Archive” located near the flightmaster in Korthia.
Accept the quest “Picking up fragments” where you need to collect 150 Relic Fragments. You find relic fragments from: * Rares * Treasure chests * Korthia activities * Low drop rate from normal mobs

You also get 2 more quests “Table of Discontent” and “Picking up the Pieces” “Table of Discontent” rewards Crafter´s Mark of the Chained Isle. You have to loot 250 Intentionally Scattered Pages from enemies and piled papers in Korthia. “Picking up Fragments” rewards a 200 ilvl gear that cannot be upgraded. You have to collect 50 Relic fragments.

Now you can check his vendor and you have also unlocked the first 3 upgrades (Rank 2/Rank 3/ Rank 4) of quest gear.

Completeting the storyline that started with “Interrupt the Interrogations” makes you unlock Rank 2/Rank 3/ Rank 4.

To unlock rank 5 you need Renown 61 and Adaptive Alloys Research available at Tier 6 Research with the Archivist´s Codex. Adaptive Alloys Research is an item that you buy from the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor that is unlocked at Tier 6..

To unlock rank 5 you need Renown 75 and First Alloys Research available at Tier 6 Research with the Archivist´s Codex. First Alloysis an item that you buy from the Archivist Roh-Suir vendor that is unlocked at Tier 6.

Vestige of Origins is the new Optional Reagent used to craft higher ilvl of the base item level for the legendary gear. So basically for upgrading legendary gear in 9.1

This is a quest reward by completing the quest "Untangling the Sigil". The reward is actually Tome of Origins which teaches you how to craft a Vestige of Origins.

You get his quest via the main questline in Korthia. When you are on "The last Sigil" chapter.

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Daily lootables [ ].

The following objects can be looted once-daily for their relics:

Relic Fragment-containing objects in Korthia

Shardhide Stash

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How to visit Japan's shrines and temples—with respect

Why are there Buddhas hidden in some Shinto shrines? Why do temples and shrines often share the same grounds? These sacred spaces have a compelling history.

Over the centuries, the Indigenous Shinto religion and Buddhism, imported from India by way of China, gained prominence in Japan at different times. From the beginning, beliefs intermingled, creating what’s now called shinbutsu shugo . Then, from the end of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th, government policy sought to split the two in an effort to elevate Shinto.

Traces of this history can still be seen all over Japan, from Buddha statues hidden in Shinto shrines in response to Meiji policy, to Shinto imagery at Buddhist temples. In many places, Shinto and Buddhism, with their associated structures, shrines and temples respectively, share the same sacred grounds. Today, there are about 80,000 shrines and 77,000 temples in the country.

As travel to Japan surpasses pre-pandemic levels , visitors who know just a bit of this context can more deeply appreciate these sacred sites. Here are some key histories, symbols, and etiquette to keep in mind to ensure a respectful and enriching visit.

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Look out for these features

How do you tell if you’re at a temple or a shrine? The clue is in the name: temples often have the suffix “寺” (-ji or -tera) or “院” (-in), while shrines usually use “神社” (-jinja) or “宮” (-miya or -gu).

Torii , Sanmon and Romon gates: Both shrines and temples have gates. At the entrance to shrines is the torii, which stands open and consists of two posts and one or two upper lintels. At temples, the gate is called sanmon or romon, and is often more functional in that they can be closed. “Both torii and sanmon serve as barriers, symbolically separating the secular world from the sacred realm,” says Toyohiko Ikeda, head priest at Sugawara Shrine in Machida, Tokyo.

The gate and people are silhouetted at sunset.

Shimenawa : At shrines, you may see a shimenawa, a rope made from rice straw or hemp and accented with paper zigzag. “Its presence signifies that the enclosed area is in a sacred and pure state,” says Takeyoshi Nagai, head priest of Hibita Shrine in Isehara, Kanagawa. But shimenawa are not limited to shrines. You may have seen them on an especially impressive rock in the forest, or even wrapped around sumo wrestlers, especially the yokozuna, or highest ranked wrestlers. “This tradition is believed to be a way for the yokozuna, who perform the stomp before entering the ring, to dispel evil spirits.”

Komainu and Nio guardians: What of the fierce guardians in front of both shrines and temples? At shrines, more often you’ll find komainu, or lion-dogs, while at temples, you’ll likely find Nio statues, fearful warrior types. “Komainu and Nio statues have the role of warding off malevolent forces attempting to enter,” says Ikeda. Both kinds of guardians are usually depicted with one of the pair having an open mouth and the other with a closed mouth, symbolizing the vocalization of “ aum .”

Bells: Inside temple grounds you’ll sometimes find a bell tower containing a large bronze bell. “In the old days, when there were no clocks in every home, the bells were used to tell the time to local people,” says Kohei Uchida, the head monk at Shingyoji in Matsue, Shimane. The bells are also used to call monks to prayer. If you visit at temple at midnight on New Year’s Eve, you might hear the “Joya no kane,” the ringing of the bell 108 times to symbolize letting go of the 108 earthly desires and approaching the new year with a pure heart.

Except for shimenawa and torii, versions of these features were all imported from abroad, though of course each culture’s version has its own unique flavor.

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Approaching sacred spaces as a traveler

Regardless of religion, any traveler can visit both temples and shrines, says Uchida. However, there are some places that are off limits in both shrines and temples, often with sacred images or objects that are tended only by staff. Photography is frowned upon at some temples and shrines, and allowed in others. If in doubt, it’s best to check with the staff. In shrines, talking should be kept to a minimum, says Ikeda, though children up to the age of seven are considered divine and their making noise is generally acceptable.

When approaching a temple or shrine, the center of the path is reserved for the gods, so mortals should keep to the edge of the walkway. At the gate, it’s customary to offer a greeting to the gods with a slight bow. Before entering the inner precinct, shrines and some temples have a temizuya , a small pavilion with sacred water for ritually cleansing your hands and mouth. Visitors should take care not to let any water they’ve touched go back into the basin, but rather let it run onto the ground. “This act is to cleanse the mind and body, as it is believed that without purification, the gods may not take notice of us,” says Ikeda.

In both cases, non-adherents are welcome to pray, according to Uchida and Ikeda, though the method of prayer differs between temples and shrines. “First visit the main hall of the temple, where the principal image resides,” says Uchida. If there is incense, you can burn some, then place your hands together in silent prayer. At shrines, the ritual for prayer is to bow twice, clap twice, pray, and then bow once more.

But when it comes to visiting shrines or temples, there’s no need to choose. The mixing and matching are an integral part of the culture.

“In Japan, people have cherished both Shinto and Buddhism alike,” says Nagai. “The innate connection to the natural world in Shinto and the structured practices of Buddhism found common ground, fostering a coexistence of the two belief systems.”

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Shinto and Buddhism: blurred lines

When Buddhism arrived in the 6th century, beliefs and rituals now known as Shinto were already in Japan. Shinto gods, called kami , include mythological creation gods, deities that control events like rain and rice harvests, as well as spirits that inhabit objects and animals. Evidence of these Indigenous practices, though diffuse, can be traced as far back as around 300 B.C.

Buddhism’s more organized doctrine brought the construction of temples, and Shinto shrines soon followed in their footsteps.

Importantly, neither Buddhism nor Shinto inherently demands that its followers adhere to only one faith. “Shinto is an everyday faith woven into daily life,” says Ikeda. “Within the Buddhist teachings, there was a concept of salvation not found in Shinto.”

This appealed to people, and as Buddhism spread, so did shinbutsu shugo, or the amalgamation of Shinto and Buddhism. In some cases, kami were explained as Buddhas in “disguise,” says Erik Schicketanz , professor of religious studies specializing in Buddhism at Kokugakuin University.

In other cases, kami were recruited as protectors of temples and monasteries, which is why you often see shrines and temples side by side, or even within the same compound. Tokyo’s most famous temple, Sensoji, is an example of this, says Schicketanz. “Right next to Sensoji is the Asakusa Jinja. And that is not by coincidence, because until 1868 they were the same thing.”

1868 brought the Meiji Restoration, a new government in pursuit of a pure national identity. They rolled out a policy of shinbutsu bunri , or the separation of Shinto from Buddhism, and an attempt to elevate Shinto as a state religion.

The legal separation continued until 1945, and in that time, Shinto grew as an overall framework, says Schicketanz. During the period of separation, some temples and Buddhist images were destroyed, and monks were forced to give up their positions or become Shinto priests. Because of the policy of Shinto supremacy, it’s rarer to find Buddhist elements at shrines than vice versa.

Nowadays, a significant number of people claim no specific religious affiliation, says Nagai. “However, for those who do express a religious belief, Buddhism and Shinto are often held in nearly equal regard.”

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Comment by Sipder2

Phasing Korthian Shrine have 3 locations in Korthia.
To interact with this treasure you need to use the item Research Report: Ancient Shrines sold by Archivist Roh-Suir .
To buy this item you need Tier 5 with The Archivists' Codex reputation.

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Buy Research Report: Ancient Shrines from Archivist Roh-Suir for 1000x Cataloged Research
Requires Tier 5 The Archivists' Codex reputation to unlock Phasing Korthian Shrine
Each item gives 500 reputation with The Archivists' Codex
You can use goblin glider from the top of the chain nearby /way 34.82 50.34 Chain starts /way 37.44 39.56 glide from here Here is demo how you can get there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LTUJgUlegs
Complete Hooking Over quest to unlock grapple points Chains of Domination Chapter 4 The Last Sigil. Requires Renown lvl 44 Use the grapple points or wait for someone to pull it to the final location /way 24.58 35.54 Grapple Point path starts /way 29.80 34.12 Grapple Point 1 /way 25.50 37.26 Grapple Point 2

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500 reputation with The Archivists' Codex
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wow The Archivist's Codex Alt Improvements in Patch 9.1.5

By Stan , October 31, 2021 in News

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Link to post, share on other sites, frogspoison 63.

Yea, the speed in which ppl can farm the rep has nearly been tripled, without even taking into account that you can constantly farm until your eyes bleed (Malbog is going to be big)

I really wish you wouldn't have to still do a goddamn 13-quest chain to unlock the thing before you can clear your bag of the ten million relic items clogging up your bags.

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