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| | *The Fatherless, are the children of the sacred prostitutes. They're basically raised together creche fashion. They're not supposed to know who their mother is, nor their father. Sometimes people will figure it out, but it's taboo to speak of it. | | *The Fatherless, are the children of the sacred prostitutes. They're basically raised together creche fashion. They're not supposed to know who their mother is, nor their father. Sometimes people will figure it out, but it's taboo to speak of it. |
| | *The Tribe's belief is that blue eyes marks a person as one of her chosen ones. Not that ALL people with blue eyes are hers, but it's a rare trait outside of divine providence. Heck, it's rare, but there have even been cases of someone's eyes changing to blue as a mark of her favor. This also means that people who have one of those eye conditions that makes you blind but gives you blue eyes, are also considered "hers", and are sheltered by The Temple. This protection is extended to anyone who goes blind or is blinded. Sometimes, the blue eyed blind are given visions by Her. | | *The Tribe's belief is that blue eyes marks a person as one of her chosen ones. Not that ALL people with blue eyes are hers, but it's a rare trait outside of divine providence. Heck, it's rare, but there have even been cases of someone's eyes changing to blue as a mark of her favor. This also means that people who have one of those eye conditions that makes you blind but gives you blue eyes, are also considered "hers", and are sheltered by The Temple. This protection is extended to anyone who goes blind or is blinded. Sometimes, the blue eyed blind are given visions by Her. |
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| − | The gods of the setting, or at least those of the tribe's pantheon, are relatively distant and impersonal. So it's not so much that they worship an evil goddess or that it's an evil religion (or pantheon), but rather that the religion and priestly castes have become twisted or corrupted. And I don't mean that in a divine sense, but rather in a mundane sense that they've let themselves be overcome by bigotry, xenophobia, anger, and so forth. Sorta become fundamentalists in a sense. And the distant/impersonal gods (or maybe they're just subtle), don't seem to have taken notice or corrective measures in their people.
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| − | *'''The Blue Mother''', goddess of Water and Wind. She gave birth to all the things that swim within the water or fly through the sky. Symbol is The Eternal Wave, a white symbol that might be a wave of water or gust of wind, on a blue field.
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| − | *'''The Red Mother''', goddess of Earth and Fire. She gave birth to all the things that walk or crawl on or in the Earth. Symbol is The Eternal Flame, a yellow flame on a red field.
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| − | *'''The Green Man''', god of plants. He gave birth to all the plantlife. Symbol is the green spiral fern leaf, on a yellow field. May manifest as male, female, or androgynous.
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| − | *'''The Lord of Darkness.''' He rules over death, rebirth, and dark places. Symbol is "the backbone of night" that resembles the galaxy that can be seen on a dark night... in other words, the stars in the night sky, as well as a celestial body that is distant in the cosmos.
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| − | *'''The All-Father''' - Yellow sun on a white field. The lord of light, warmth, fertility, and masculinity. Associated with Law, as in, very predictable.
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| − | *'''The All-Mother''' - White moon on a black field. The lady of lunacy, cold, fertility, and femininity. Associated with Chaos - she's ever changing, and wanders in the sky, sometimes being larger or smaller than expected, sometimes further north or south than expected, and her cycle takes a variable amount of time.
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| − | *'''Purple''' - The new god. He rules over community (including war). A white ring on a purple field. He's brand new. Although some say that he, like the rest of the pantheon of The People (aside from The Lord of Darkness), was born of the All-Mother and All-Father, others whisper of visions that he was fathered by The Lord of Darkness.
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| − | *Plenty of other Gods, Demons, and so forth as well. But the 7 are the Pantheon of The People. It doesn't include the gods of non-humans, monsters, or the various cults and heresies to the Old Gods. The 7 are served by a plethora of lesser deities as well.
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| | ==Faces & Places== | | ==Faces & Places== |
