Iron is power and might, while wood is life and disease. Humankind must, like iron, be worked and purified and tempered in order to reach their conviction, while the uninitiated are pieces of raw iron ore and the heretics the slag that must be removed. Materials, rather than the animals, that are divine. The moon is his eye and wisps of smoke are his spies, as are the vague and ethereal fragments of fog that rise from the ground when the weather is cold and damp. The Nightwalker is the protector of the night, mysteries, and untamed magic. People rinse themselves off with it and collect it in containers where it keeps its purifying and healing power for a few weeks.Īppease him to avoid bad luck and disaster, some-times by blood sacrifice. House or village from disease and vermin. Which overflows with water once the invo-Ĭation is successful. She is invoked in a well or bucket of water, The water goddess, Flow, is worshipped byĮlves, Elvenspring, and villagers. You also know that there is something called The Raven Sisters and they are procecuted and killed by the Order of Rust Brothers. The Raven church also honors the water goddess, Flow, since she is of great significance to life. Raven worshippers are renowned healers and shapeshifters who can travel in animal form. However, the Raven church is respected by elves and Elvenspring, even if they do not share their moralizing view of the world. The Congregation of the Serpent in the Forbidden Lands does not like the Raven worshippers either, but accept them as one of few constructive forces. The Congregation of the Serpent in Alderland (southwest of Ravenland) believe those that worship Raven are heretics who should be pursued and killed, a view-point the Rust Brothers of Alderstone have inherited and sharpened even further. The leader of the Congregation of the Serpent is called the Psychopomp.Īnd have the bird itself as their holy symbol. Is considered to be a holy, but not divine,
Adherents of at least three different viewpoints have squabbled since the Shift, when they haven’tīeen persecuting and killing each other for heresy. According to legend, he flew before the ships in the form of a raven with a snake in his claws.
Most humans agree that a god they know as the Protector led their ancestors to Ravenland across the seas from their native, ruined homeland.
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