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<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><big>'''''Rose tint my world, keep me safe from my trouble and pain.'''''</big></div> | <div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><big>'''''Rose tint my world, keep me safe from my trouble and pain.'''''</big></div> | ||
− | + | The Rose Temple is a small heretical order with a collection of its own gods. Its origin is unknown. Different temples might have different views on the Rose Temple and its gods and followers. They are usually non-violent but are capable of defending themselves if needed. | |
− | + | Rose Temple folk, also called Rose Folks, do many things as they travel. | |
+ | *'''Carry the News''':Rose folk love talking about current affairs wherever they go. | ||
+ | *'''Heal the Sick''': Rose Folk act as medics and their most devoted act as clerics. Many rose folk are druidic. | ||
+ | *'''Take in the Lost''': Rose folks will take in orphans. Also elderly that are in need of care. These are taken to Sedentary Temples usually. | ||
+ | *'''Feed the People''': Rose folk plant fruits and vegetables wherever they go. Often starting a garden in a place they stay for a month and then leaving it behind. Rose folk do not decorate with flowers. All their decorations are fruits, vegetables, and herbs. They collect seeds. They distribute seeds. While they may engage in merchant business they give seeds away for free. They will often feed the hungry to the best of their meager abilities. Many of their stories and songs involve telling people what can be eaten, drank brewed, and how to do it. Gardening songs and cooking songs and the like. | ||
+ | *'''Tell the Tale''': They are often bards or story tellers. They remember histories and legends. Rose folk are collectors. Their wagons will often be decorated vividly with clutter they have found; license plates, street signs, flags. | ||
+ | *'''Spread the Word''': Rose folk collect books. Reading Wagons are a wagon where a person might sit and read one of the caravan's books. See the Reading Wagon description below. | ||
− | + | ==Presentation== | |
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− | == | + | ===Sedentary=== |
− | + | They have small temples that are often little more then retirement communities for its members made up of three or fours homes with shared garden space. The retirement communities also raise children | |
− | === | + | ===Caravans=== |
+ | The Rose Temple followers are like gypsies. They travel in caravans of vardo wagons, trailer, and wagons. There are no typical caravan descriptions but a Rose Temple Caravan will usually include 3 large Vardo wagons drawn by horses. A couple few dairy cows used as pack animals. A few dairy goats used as pack animals. Few people would take to the road without these basics. | ||
+ | ===='''Main Wagons'''==== | ||
+ | This is a family wagon usually containing 2 adults and as many as 3 children. Pulled by 2 to 4 horses. Whiles its layout depends on the owner it almost always has extra space for people they take in. | ||
+ | ===='''Reading Wagons'''==== | ||
+ | A Reading Wagon is a wagon set aside for storage of books. People can be allowed to sit in one of the reading seats and read a book in the wagon. Rose folks collect books and store them in a reading wagon. A gratuity is generally expected for the chance to read. The person who runs the wagon may live in it but not always. The Librarian is almost always at least a Friar of the Rose Order. | ||
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+ | ===<big>Membership</big>=== | ||
There are five levels of members of the Rose Temple. 3 non-liturgical, 2 liturgical. | There are five levels of members of the Rose Temple. 3 non-liturgical, 2 liturgical. | ||
− | ==== | + | ====Non-Liturgical==== |
=====Followers or Folk===== | =====Followers or Folk===== | ||
− | Just folks. | + | Just folks. |
=====Brother or Sister===== | =====Brother or Sister===== | ||
− | Just folks who run stuff. Usually a brother of Sister runs a wagon. A person who is dedicated to the Order in a small but official manner. They may or may not have official duties. | + | Just folks who run stuff. Usually a brother of Sister runs a wagon. A person who is dedicated to the Order in a small but official manner. They may or may not have official duties. |
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=====Solitaries===== | =====Solitaries===== | ||
Some Rose Folk go off on their own. They follow the Order's guidelines but in their own ways. There are Rose Temple hermits, Bards, Anchorites, and pillarists. | Some Rose Folk go off on their own. They follow the Order's guidelines but in their own ways. There are Rose Temple hermits, Bards, Anchorites, and pillarists. | ||
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A Brother of Sister in charge of a Caravan. One in charge of some Rose Temple location. | A Brother of Sister in charge of a Caravan. One in charge of some Rose Temple location. | ||
− | ==== | + | ====Liturgical==== |
There are no priests, ministers, reverends or other religious ranks among the Rose Folks. There is a pope but who they are is a secret. | There are no priests, ministers, reverends or other religious ranks among the Rose Folks. There is a pope but who they are is a secret. | ||
====='''Friar or Monk or Hermits'''===== | ====='''Friar or Monk or Hermits'''===== | ||
− | *'''Friar''' is the main liturgical office in the Rose Temple. Friars tend to be the vast majority of the traveling Rose Temple officiates. | + | *'''Friar''' is the main liturgical office in the Rose Temple. Friars tend to be the vast majority of the traveling Rose Temple officiates. Friars are often in charge of Caravans. |
*'''Monks''' or '''Nuns''' are in the Sedentary locations. | *'''Monks''' or '''Nuns''' are in the Sedentary locations. | ||
*'''Hermits''' officiates that have left to company of others of the Rose Temple, and like medieval hermits, might find a place where they can be alone yet locals bring them offerings in exchange for some religious services. | *'''Hermits''' officiates that have left to company of others of the Rose Temple, and like medieval hermits, might find a place where they can be alone yet locals bring them offerings in exchange for some religious services. | ||
− | **'''Pillarists or Stylites''': For some unknown reason Rose Temple folks occasionally go ''Up the Pole''. They take to sitting on a pole and preaching, starving, practicing mortification of the flesh. Many Rose Temple folk think a term as pillarist is necessary for one entering the Friar Order but too long ''Up the Pole'' makes them crazy. Stylites are people who have spent too long ''Up the Pole''. | + | **'''Pillarists or Stylites''': For some unknown reason Rose Temple folks occasionally go ''Up the Pole''. They take to sitting on a pole and preaching, starving, practicing mortification of the flesh. Many Rose Temple folk think a term as pillarist is necessary for one entering the Friar Order but too long ''Up the Pole'' makes them crazy. Stylites are people who have spent too long ''Up the Pole'''. |
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====='''Abbots'''===== | ====='''Abbots'''===== | ||
The highest religious order among the Rose folk. Many Abbots run well organized Caravans | The highest religious order among the Rose folk. Many Abbots run well organized Caravans | ||
− | == | + | ==Gods of the Rose Temple== |
− | + | It is important to note that while the Rose Temple has a pantheon they admit their deities may just be Idealizations of concepts and not actual people. But even they are not sure. Rose Temple folk do not push their deities on others and do their good works without calling on the deity as many other religions do. | |
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− | It is important to note that while the Rose Temple has a pantheon they admit their deities | ||
===Tolknor-God of Order=== | ===Tolknor-God of Order=== | ||
Supports Orderliness, cleanliness, record keeping. | Supports Orderliness, cleanliness, record keeping. | ||
===Ko'ob-Good of Chaos=== | ===Ko'ob-Good of Chaos=== | ||
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===Dolki-God of the Soil=== | ===Dolki-God of the Soil=== | ||
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