Religion

A page to collect religious stuff.

Aera

Deities

• Taleyira (the Warrior-Wife)
• Seyela (the Warrior-Maiden)
• Edera'yn (a trickster god)

Alliance General

• Order of the Universe
• Unknown holiday: Kasimmel. Sounds like one of the Core races, though.

Fleet

• Has a volunteer chaplain corps, which can handle many (but not all) issues.
• When funerals are performed, if the volunteer chaplain crew is not sufficient, officiating falls to the captain.

Asanii

• Oaths and sayings: "Balance,", "NiiAna," "Sun's backside," "Sun and Stars",, "Sungods," "Sun and Moon"
• Worship Nii and Ana; their religion focuses on the sun and moon, and polarities and moving between them.

Chatcaava

"We once worshipped gods outside ourselves, but now that we have traded our idols for self-worship, we cannot change."

Living Air

One of the major religions of the Chatcaava. An ancient worship tradition, newly revived.

Ideals

Old Chatcaavan religious texts refer to a time when "the Living Air held all the things to come in its invisible, ineffable body. Those things existed in a state of Perfection—holy, pure, and consistent. All things that exist were said to be memories of those Perfections made manifest... imperfect themselves, copies that aspired to their origin. A thing that is close to that Perfect version of itself has Beauty. [...] We do not have many sacred words anymore."

See also Chatcaavan Language.

Members / Clergy

• Breath of the Living Air (aka Queen Ransomed)
• Second Stellar Downdraft, an assistant to the priests. Sat with Andrea Tran regularly at the Chatcaavan dining area.

Ciracaana

• There is apparently a "Mother Cult" that makes pottery.

Lifehawk Tribe

• Rite of the Vessel: A sacred Ciracaana rite of the Lifehawk Tribe in which an individual is chosen by a totem.

D-Per

• The God in the Stream

Eldritch

See Eldritch Religion

Faulfenza

See Faulfenzair Religion.

Glaseah

See Glaseahn Religion.

Harat-Shar

See Harat-Shariin Religions.

Hinichi

• Many Hinichi have adapted Christianity to their needs. There are various Hinichi Christian sects:
  • sathet: a more liberal mountain sect
  • pruscha: a stricter mountain sect

Karaka'A

• Oaths and sayings: "Bast and An,", "Bast and An above," "Thank God and Her Partner,", "Twenty midnight hells"
• "They're all nervous as a Karaka'An in hell without a map. And you know we have twenty of them. Hells, I mean."
• While not strictly a Karaka'an religion, modern Followers of Holly are mostly found in the Karaka'A.

Malarai

• Naem-fili, avatar of the Malrai. Depicted in the Pantheon deck with teary eyes.

Phoenix

The Banners of an Eye-Trained Phoenix

The Phoenix hold with a form of religious detachment dedicated to serving the Eye at the Center of the Void. For more information, consult their species page.

See also Holidays, Celebrations, and Observances

Seersa

Most Seersa worship the Speaker-Singer.

• "...by the standards of these Seerse, Zafiil was more devout than many people because she knew two languages and part of a third."

• Oaths and sayings: "Speaker-Singer", references to "silent hells"

There is a separate Seersan religion, which worships four elemental sisters: Mist, Earth, Lava, and... Ocean, I think.

• Rispa is the Mist Sister. "Rispa ... one of the Seersan Four Sisters. The goddess of Ice. She is cold and unapproachable, as ephemeral as mist. Her ruling spheres are displacement and ennui." Depicted in a Seersan tarot-like card deck as a white foxine female, her hair dissolving into a gossamer fog behind her, with strange writings pouring down her back, holding a silver bowl in one hand and with a silver comb sitting between her perked ears.

Possibly part of some other Seersan belief system:

• Karesing: the Dancer. "She holds fire within her, a fire that consumer her so totally her body is colored like it. Her joy is so intense the universe feels compelled to dance with her. Her ruling spheres are purpose and fearlessness." Depicted in a Seersan tarot-like card deck as a bright orange and red female with streaks of flame blue and white, caught in the act of dancing, with a whirling galaxy behind her and white stars pooled at her feet.

Tam-illee

• Naming practices (FoundNames)
• Iley, the Laughing God