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 Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:51 pm
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This is church of the moonlight info aka the religion/ herd/ groupyness some of Vatican's family is part of
The Church of the Moonlight is a group of like minded Soquili and familiars who worship the moon Goddesses Trivia and Selene but are mainly organized under Trivia's following. They do accept and welcome those who follow other moon gods/ goddesses as long as they are willing to work within the three branches of the church and to help the church with its mission to guide any who maybe lost through the darkness of the light. The Church also believes that while the light of the goddess is extremely important that it is also the darkness of the night is also very important and in order to understand one that members must be willing to understand and embrace the other.
At the moment the Church/ herd/ group thingy doesn't have any specific territory that they claim as their own. They have a specific location ( which I can't recall where I wanted to put it on the soq map) that they meet to do their worshiping but for the most part the Nacht family(using them as the example cause their only members right now) is sorta spread out in where they live and come together every full and new moon to meet. Other wise the positioned members get together to do their jobs as needed but live off on their own
-The Church's main goddess is Trivia/ Selene. But they welcome those who believe moon gods/ goddesses are welcome
-The Church believes that there are NO avatars to the goddess. No one or thing that has a direct connection to the goddess.
- The Church welcomes any who is willing to worship the moon and nighttime and will not harm the churches members (aka no Skinwalkers or any other soquili who would be violent towards fellow members)
-The Church is run by no one member but instead by a high council composed of atleast two high High Priest/ Priestess, two master Trainers and two retrievers or guides
-The Church itself is composed of three main branches,
-Within each branch there are a number of positions that a member of the church can hold. Most members who work for the church dedicate themselves to one one branch and one position.
-Those who are with the church from birth aka foals or young familiars can work with in two branches holding one position in each branch. (Aka Asariel has been with the church since foalhood is both in the Beams and the Darkside Branches holding Master Trainer position in the Darkside branch and guide position in the Nighttime branch)
-Rarely those who with those who have been with the church since birth can master a position with in all three branches. At this time there is no member of the church that holds one position in all three branches. At this time there is no member that has achieved this that is currently alive. (Lassuarium is said to have the skills in order to hold a position in all three branches but has not trained to have a position in the Face branch)
- Any member holding two or more positions can only obtain one high or master position. ( Using Asariel again there.as he is one of the Master Trainer in the Darkside Branch he can no become a master guide because he already holds one master/ high title.)
NEWS:
8/18/2016- Backstory/ lore of the church has been added.
7/09/2016- The church has decided to add a sub-branch to its over all system- The Stars: This sub branch is for overall member or ranked members whom's rank does not completely fit into or fall under one of the three main branches.
7/09/2016- the Sub- branch Stars gained the following ranks. Divine Muse, Fabric Muses, Academic Muses, Tangible Muses, and general Members
7/09/2016- The Darkside has gained two new ranks. Assassin and the Master level of Deathdealers
7/09/2016- The Face (s) Have gained three new ranks, Faith Healers, Body healers, and Master healers. |
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:52 pm
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 The Face(s) of the Moon:
These are the religious leaders of the church while all members of the church can in fact become a priest, priestess, or acolyte of the church, the faces are those who dedicate a large amount if not their whole lives to worshiping the moon Goddess and interrupting the moon light (in the forms of moon beams coming down to the lands or designs the moon light creates on the ground) into divine messages.
Positions:
Hight Priest/ Priestess; These members of the church work with the high council in order to run the church. Their main job with in the council is to make sure that the word of the goddess always guides any decisions or choices that the church decides to make and that both the moon and the night both are equally taught of and embraced by all members of the church.
Master Healers: Master healers are healers who have dedicated their lives and skills to the church and are well versed in both manners of healing. So much so the church feels comfortable allowing them to train and direct the lower ranked healers.
Priest/ Priestess: These members of the church work by both learning and teaching the goodness of both the light of the moon and the darkness which allows the goddess' light to shine at night. Priest and Priestess are the main foundation of the church beyond its members. Their main jobs are to praise the goddess, teach others of the goodness of the moon and night and to care for the church in general.
Faith Healers: These members are the church are healers who while they use some medical amount of healing focus most of their healing skills into learning to heal via religious teaching the church has collected over the years. Their training is so faith based that in order to hold this rank they must also have completely or nearly so, also have gained the rank of priest or priestess along with some medical training in order to hold this rank. This rank also primarily assists members of the church who are close to death by easing their passing.
Medical healers: Pretty much the opposite of the Faith healers. Medical healers. Have minor religious training and instead focus mainly on learning to heal by purely medical means. These healers often leave the church for some time period in order to train under other healers who have vast medical knowledge before returning to the church to employ their skills.
Diviners: These members of the church are the closest things church has to avatars. While the church believes that no one soquili can be a direct connection to the goddess (aka there are no avatar(s) of the goddess. No one being who is a physical representation or connection to the goddess) They do believe that some of the members of the church are blessed with the ability to interrupt what the goddess wishes for the church to do. Diviners never gain very specific instructions from their divining, more along the lines of simple helpful hints from the goddess, Such as tonight help is needed to guide lost from the west or with in the next few nights the goddess should receive liquid gifts. Diviners always work in groups playing off each other to best understand the message that the goddess is trying to send them. Several groups of diviners usually go out each night to read the messages of the goddess. Reporting back to the church as the learn things via their groups scribe or acolytes. Divining is a very in depth job so usually the diviners focus solely on reading the messages while their needs are cared for by the acolytes and their words are taken down by the groups scribe. Many diviners go into a trance like state while working to read the message they are working on and often can not recall what they have said afterwards.
Many diviners are also usually well educated in astronomy, following star paths and making star charts. Which some of them will use to aid them both before and after their trances in order to better understand the messages the stares are giving to them
Scribes: These members of the church usually work with a group of the diviners. Usually one scribe works with each group of diviners. It is their duty to keep a written ledger of everything all the diviners say with in the reading of the message and to make sure the final message is recorded so that it can be done with as needed to be by the church.
Acolytes: These members are usually those who are training for further positions with in the branch of the Face(s) they work with the Priest/ Priestess, Diviners, and Scribes as apprentices learning their crafts and helping to take care of those they are working under. |
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:53 pm
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The Darkside(s) of the Moon:
These members of the church are those who are willing to take on the darker aspects of what is needed in order to protect the church and its members. Darksiders are the fighters, knights trainers and so on who would give their life for other members of the church or the church itself.
Positions:
Master Trainers: After years of dedicating their life and fighting skills to the church, fighters and knights who are found to have enough skills are offered the position as Master Trainers. They organize the fighters, trainers, knights, and squires and decide who will take what missions and how everyone trains to best enhance their skills
Death Dealers: Akin to the Master Trainer level. Death dealers are Assassins who have dedicated their lives and skills both to the church and those who have passed. A death dealers main duties include, keeping tabs on the assassins so none are lost to bloodlust, helping to train and skill test new assassins/ currently working assassins, doing the death rituals the church has in place for members who have passed and on rare occasions returning to the field to do high risk or high profile assassinations.
Trainers; These members of the church are dedicated to making sure that all those who fight for the church are skilled to the best of their abilities. Trainers usually master a number of different techniques in which they can train others to use in service of the church.
Assassins: As the name implies assassins deal with well assassinating enemies of the church. This rank is rarely if even allowed to be hired out. It would take extreme circumstances in order of this to happen. When not training or doing their duties (which is a rare occurrence) Most assassins train as backup fighters or in rare cases back up knights and work as the grave keepers of the church. Tending to plots and praying for passed members so that they do no lose themselves to bloodlust.
Knights: The knights are the members of the darkside branch which fight directly for the church. They do no often actually see action but instead are posted a guards for the church itself or for groups of diviners who are out in the field working. They are the some what like the bouncers or referees of the church making sure that every one is protected and that if a fight, crime or anything else that might require battle skills occurs that it is dealt with as quickly as possible.
Fighters: The fighters and knights are on equal footing with in the church but where knights usually work as purely protection, fighters work both as protection and as on an offensive measure. Fighters have more free roam with their duties often accompanying guides or retrievers into the field. Fighters will also accompany members of the church on journeys whether they be another position holder or just a simple following member. The fighters can also in a sense have their skill bought. If say another herd or group required help they could ask the church for fighters in exchange for favors or donations to the church. Fighters themselves can not be bought or paid for to them directly. For a fighter to accept payment to themselves alone for a task is considered disgraceful and that fighter would lose their position with in the church.
Squires; These members are of the church are like the acolytes of the Face branch they are members who are training for a higher position with in their branch by serving under one of the higher members. |
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:54 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:55 pm
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The StarsThis sub branch is for overall member or ranked members whom's rank does not completely fit into or fall under one of the three main branches
Divine muses- Master of the arts. You have to be a master artisan in all trades in order to hold this rank. A true jack-of-all-trades who train others and oversees main projects commissioned by the church
Fabric Muses-tailors, seamstresses, and other artisans who deal with anything cloth related needed by the church.
Tangible Muses- Those who deal with anything artistic for the church that requires physical efforts. Singers, dancers, gardeners, sculpture artists.
Academic Muses- Muses who deal with Arts or skill that require more mental preparations like painting, drawing, map making, accounting, History and record keeping
General members: Members of the church who feel no need or want to hold a rank with in the church. |
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 4:00 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 4:01 pm
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Lore? (fyi this isn't vatican but one of earlier family member like great grandfather or something)
There is always two sides to every story, if not some times many more than just two. In many stories in which the sides of day and night are pinned aganist each other, Day often wins. But of course to some this side, is not so favorable. It is not to say either side is entirely right or that one is entirely wrong. This story is simply to show that for some the night is the hero and in this case the moon it's heroine.
So our story begins not so long ago with a stallion for whom a large part of his life forced himself into the daylight against his nartual weakness to sunlight against his some times blood craving nature because for so long he herd the same tales. Never embrace the night, the stories warned. It is a dark, horrid time.. a place filled with all that is evil, wicked, and frightening. So the stallion heeded the stories warnings not matter how the sun pricked and pained him as he grew. His family had be giving the surname of Night in their tongue and so many other foals made fun of him calling him the things that lurked in the darkness. For so long the stallion fought the night while others in his family embraced it. They told him of its comforts, of how the moon so much less damaging than the sun gave her soothing light to them and used her stars to guide them. But the stallion contiuned to deny their words for those he had heard as a foal.
Till one day after a great battle fought along side two leggers he was left injured amongst the dead to meet his last breath as well. As the sun sank around the curve of the lands far off in the distance the stallion took a shuddering breathe, fear of the darkness taking him for a moment as he waited to be surrounded by complete blackness, emptyness for the first time he could remember. But as the soft colors of day faded into darker colors and he thought his last breathe would occur. The stallion instead felt relief from the pain of daylight, something he had never known. Still holding a bit of fear in his heart the stallion slowly opened his eyes expecting to be surrounded by nothingness or mosters ugly beyond all words. But as his eyes opened before him was the most beautiful sight. The Moon goddess floating amoungst her twinkle stars high in her night's dark embrace. So enamored with the sight it took him a moment to realize around him family and others who had long ago embraced the night moved around the field of injured bodies helping them to heal or to go to their final rest. Once all those who could be healed, himself included where helped the stallion was led by those of who embraced the night to their camp.
There looking at all the faces of those who where happy within the darkness as they helped those whom were lost to find peace with the darkness or atleast a way home. The stallion knew something must come from this awakening he had been given, so he set forth his heart filled with a promise. To create a church a place for those of who embraced the night to worship the moon goddess and to help others see not all that goes bump in the night were wicked.
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 4:04 pm
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2015 11:24 pm
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2015 11:32 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 10:14 pm
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