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CUT AND PASTED FROM THE SECTION IN THE RELIGION PAGE--ADD THE CONVENTS DATA, and maybe the holiday data? I don't know? Help
- The Eldritch religion involves the worship of male and female divinities in two roles: as guardians of mystery, and as intimate intercessors. The Lord and Lady are the mystery; the God and Goddess are the intercessors. For that reason, males swear by "God and Lady" while females refer to the "Goddess and Lord." Each sex is assumed to be intimate with their sex's deity, and to have access to the other sex's divinity only as a mystery, not as a known quantity.
- Liolesa uses "High Priestess of the Amacrucian Church" or "Matriarch of the Amacrucian Church" as a passcode or secret identity in her communications and interactions with Reese. [1][2] The queen is the titular head of the Church, [3] making Amacrucia the name of the religion (if Liolesa wasn't just making a wicked joke).
- Priests and priestesses do not marry, because it is considered a distraction from their work. [3]
- One ordinarily cannot take vows to the Divine Mysteries and keep one's worldly position. The Queen is the only exception, being both the secular head of state and the religious head of the Church. [4]
- One gives personal gifts to one's priests on their natal days, but they should be modest, because the vows require chastity, poverty, obedience, and humility. [4]
- Vestments: Ontine Cathedral's clergy wear plain blue and white robes. [5] The arm of the Church given over to the mysteries comprises the priests of the Lord, who wear dark carmine robes. [6] Val's elevation to High Priest involved Liolesa putting "the Lord's red stole over his shoulders." [7]
- Catechism
- The part of the catechism that is cited most often is the commandment to serve life.
- So long as there is breath in me, I will serve life -- serve life -- serve life. (Said/thought by Jahir.) [8]
- With every breath in me, I will serve life. (Said/thought by Lisinthir.) [9]
- To heal is to serve life. (Said by Jahir.) [10]
- "It is what they all want, isn't it? To be useful? Why, even the catechism commands it. We serve life!" -- Bethsaida [11]
- Other tenets:
- Lying is wrong. (Said by Juzie.) [12]
- To listen is the beginning and end of wisdom. (Said by Solanth.) [12]
- To find offense where none is offered is violence against the God and Lady. (Said by Talthien.) [13]
- People who love one another serve one another. (Said by Jahir.) [14]
- All that is allotted to us as mortals is a glimpse of the truth. Any other belief is doctrinal error. (Said by Liolesa.) [15]
- Not quite religion, but closely related: the virtues that should be exemplified by a gently-bred lady, as found in Lili's Book of Hours that she gives to Sediryl for her investiture vigil, are love, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, humility, faithfulness, and self-control. [16]
See also: Eldritch Holidays
- Saints and Martyrs
I... need a section here. Maybe the Eldritch religion page can be broken out, and the Convents page added to it.
- ↑ Earthrise, Part One
- ↑ Rose Point, Part One
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Laisrathera, chapter 11
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Rose Point Holiday, chapter 4
- ↑ Rose Point, Interlude
- ↑ Rose Point, Part Three
- ↑ A Rose Point Holiday, chapter 2
- ↑ Some Things Transcend, chapter 7
- ↑ Some Things Transcend, chapter 9
- ↑ In Extremis, chapter 18
- ↑ Farmer's Crown, chapter 25
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 In the Court of Dragons, "The Color of the Sky at Sunrise"
- ↑ A Rose Point Holiday, chapter 10
- ↑ Farmer's Crown, chapter 8
- ↑ Healer's Wedding, chapter 15
- ↑ Farmer's Crown, chapter 24