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=''Official Faith of the Realm''= | =''Official Faith of the Realm''= | ||
<big>''Due to recent in-game events, only one form of worship is legally permitted | <big>''Due to recent in-game events, only one form of worship is legally permitted by the Peerage, and citizenship in the Peerage Ward there requires public devotion.''</big> | ||
==The Lord & Lady== | ==The Lord & Lady== | ||
'''Associated Domains: Nobility, Law, Sun, Travel, War, Protection''' | '''Associated Domains: Nobility, Law, Sun, Travel, War, Protection''' | ||
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'''Special Requirements: Human''' | '''Special Requirements: Human''' | ||
The faith of the Lord & Lady is the organised religion of the Peerage Ward, endorsed by the Royal Archives and ( | The faith of the Lord & Lady is the organised religion of the Peerage Ward, endorsed by the Royal Archives and (supposedly) practiced by all members of the nobility and their sworn vassals. The centre of the mythology revolves around the Lord Departed, who once ruled over the Peerage Ward but left to undertake a quest of errantry to vanquish a Great Evil, leaving his newborn child (often interpreted as a euphemism for the Peerage Ward) in the care of his Lady-in-Waiting - with a Promise made through the blood of their child that he would one day return to her. Several different interpretations of this myth exist, though all of them revolve around this core plot and character archetypes. | ||
This broad religion is the parent faith of three component parts - the Lady-in-Waiting, the Lord Departed, and the ancient sun deity known as the Promise. As the primary foundation on which the social structure of the Peerage Ward rests, all citizens of the Ward are expected to profess devotion to this faith - to do otherwise is to invite suspicion, social rejection and potentially even accusations of heresy or dreaded Changeling witchcraft... | This broad religion is the parent faith of three component parts - the Lady-in-Waiting, the Lord Departed, and the ancient sun deity known as the Promise. As the primary foundation on which the social structure of the Peerage Ward rests, all citizens of the Ward are expected to profess devotion to this faith - to do otherwise is to invite suspicion, social rejection and potentially even accusations of heresy or dreaded Changeling witchcraft... | ||