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12.04.2006

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Hearth Gods
In the islands of the Middle Sea, most people have household shrines for their ancestors and local gods. There are a lot of local gods, and no priest can figure out the relationship between them and the Ancient Gods. On the island of Sairboern, three unnamed gods are worshipped:

Harvest
Manifests as an octopus carrying throw-nets and tridents. Every fishing vessel from Sairboern has a small shrine to this god, and pregnant women are expected to wear an octopus necklace to ensure a healthy birth.


Duty
Doesn't manifest, but is represented by a fasces and a straw broom. This is the god of duties to your ancestors (the straw broom is for maintaining the house shrine) and to your community (the fasces represents obedience to town law.) It is commonly believed that your ancestor and hearth gods consult with Duty before assisting you in any way, and that Duty is continually judging you on your obedients to ancestors and community.

Death
Manifests as a skeleton carrying a basket and shears (presumably for harvesting a soul when someone dies.) Death is always welcomed, because if someone dies and doesn't have their soul harvested, they will become a ghost, zombie, ghoul, or something equally appalling. People usually leave out a glass of soured wine or spoiled beer so that Death can have a cool dead drink when it visits.

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