✦ About Rrbrrt - The Sacred Earth ✦ ✦╞═══════════════════════╡✦
- The earth itself is a living being that should be respected and cared for.
- The earth provides for all of your needs. From its flesh (dirt) we gain shelter and warmth. From its sweat and tears, oceans and lakes. It's fur is the grass and trees that sprout upon its pelted back. And the winds are its very breaths.
- You should always aim to help mend the broken earth where you can.
- Sow seeds in ravaged battlefields.
- When gathering supplies, such as those for a long journey, feel free to stock up for the trip, but try to take only what you think you will need. Do not needlessly hoard goods and items. Make use of them or give them up to someone who can.
- Help to care for weary crops and blighted lands if such an action, no matter how small, is possible.
- You are born of the earth. The dirt is sacred. The most holy of substances. Always carry a small amount with you from your birthplace. It will serve as your connection to the Earth. (Religious iconography like carrying a cross.)
- The earth will provide for the devoted.
- Nothing is mere coincidence and nearly everything can always be traced back to a relation with the Earth. A favor given is a favor repaid.
- All living things are precious. Nourished by the land and allowed to grow.
- After taking the life of a creature you must say a prayer to help deliver its spirit back to the Earth where it may be put to peace and later reborn.
- The prayer can be short or long, and prayers for multiple creatures can be done en masse, but at least a few words of peace must be given.
- For full funeral burials, the body should first be cleansed with purified water while holy incense burns to help calm the spirit before being buried in freshly turned, sanctified Earth.
- Full funerals are typically given for: family members, close friends, figures of note, and pets. Though may be given outside of these if circumstance and time allow.
- Bodies that do not see full funerals should at least have their eyes closed, and faces covered with earth or a clean cloth, to show respect for the spirit. Animals that come to feast upon the corpse are not pests, but are recyclers. Returning nourishment to the land and using the flesh to continue the cycle of life. Do not disrespect these animals, as they help the spirit to pass on and allow it to detach from the mortal body so that it may be reborn again.
- Every creature upon its death is deserving of a prayer of peace, save for the following:
- Constructs, automatons, or other beings created artificially without the use of a sacrificial life or soul to run.
- Illithid or Demonic beings that come to the Earth from another plane but do not reside there naturally and have no ties to it otherwise.
- At least one night a week a prayer must be given to the Earth in remembrance and thanks for its bounties and gifts. You will know it is listening by the feel of the cool breeze on your cheek, the sound of the leaves in the trees, the unwavering support of the land beneath your feet.
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Ms. Huberts Booberts
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