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Cults, Orders and Sects of Whelm (Defender of the Hearth)
Posted on October 24, 2024 in Steel-Realms
The Defender of the Hearth
– This is the dominant order of the faith. It has common Group/Institution elements.
Cleric, Paladin – These are archetypes dedicated to serving and representing the faith in iconic roles as part of their function; Others may be available as Followers at GM discretion – serving as institutional officers, community officers, or simply through Conviction and shared liturgical beliefs.
The Common Face of Faith: Like most Faiths of the Steel Realms, there may be a multitude of denominations that make up Cults, Orders and Sects of Whelm. These share the common Workings of Faith, promoting worship to prove the truth of the Divine Principal's ideals and tenets, and allow Followers a means to prove worthy to wield power and secure a place in the promised afterlife. Whelm has a Dominant Presentation of their faith, clergy, and institutions that the folk of the realms look to.
In addition to their own specific elements of faith, they embrace all the shared elements of the Unified Pantheon of Lightbringers (except where directly contravened).
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Clerics in service to the faith have the callings (subclasses) of Light, Life, Order, and War; Others may be available at GM discretion or through other cults, sect, or orders. Paladins in service to the faith have the callings (subclasses) of Ancients and Devotion; Others may be available at GM discretion or through other cults, sect, or orders.
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Elemental Hearth Magik of Umbak
Posted on October 24, 2024 in Steel-Realms
The artificers and/or priests of the Automata Brigade of Virtue and Reason in the kingdom of Umbak often rely on the foundational ‘Hearth Magik‘ to summon and control elemental powers to provide a fuel for their constructs, contraptions, and machines. The Elemental Hearth Magik of Umbak is the class of mystical powers that is used as a power source for their items – such as Florent’s Array.
Although there is little Occult perception among the practitioners in Umbak, they draw upon the elemental Sparks, harnessing them as a power source through ritual bargains. In return, the elementals are often allowed to consume sacrificial materials of sources they can imbibe. The outward trappings are an exchange of materials to ’empower’ something, but really it is a consumption of the elementals of material that pleases their palettes. The materials are mostly items made by the Automata Brigade with materials enjoyed by the elementals. The joy in consuming and deconstructing ‘made’ items back into elemental constituents also pleases the them.
Virtue and Vigilance (‘Hearth Magik’)
Posted on October 24, 2024 in Steel-Realms
The core of the mystical capabilities around Umbakian culture revolve around family and community, and focus on Virtue and Vigilance. This is often referred to as ‘Hearth Magik‘.
Spring of Pristos
Posted on October 24, 2024 in Steel-Realms
The greatest of the holy place of Scrofa the Boar (of the Wyld Faith), is the artesian Spring of Pristos in Ruary of the North Merchant Cities, on the north side of the Beyne River. These waters are in high demand, and access and use is strictly controlled by the merchants and religious authorities. It is rumored that the blood of Scrofa was spilled in a fight with some great beast that escaped from The Valley of Sighs.
The spring itself is located on the north side of the river, on a hill at the edges of the sprawling city proper.
The Spring of Pristos is guarded day and night by a Briarwood that surrounds it and is the highest holy place of Scrofa the Boar.
Glassblowers and Bottlers Guild of Ruary
Posted on October 24, 2024 in Steel-Realms
The Glassblowers and Bottlers Guild of Ruary are the most skilled in all the Steel Realms. Decanters, glasses, casks, pipes, vials are all made from glass in the city of Ruary. It includes both fine and simple, light and heavy glasswork. Regional materials are used, in addition to exotic sands and stone from the south. The forges of the glassblowers in Ruary have the most consistent forges next to the smithing of armaments in the realms.
The “glasssmith” is a the second or third most respected trade in the entire region, only after the distillers and brewers themselves. The Gaffers and Coopers vie for 2nd position in friendly contests every year, both of artisanry and in wagered contests of physical (including drinking contests!) nature.
The makers of Saison Ale in Umbak are known to import some of the finest glass firkins made in Ruary. They are known to make some of the glass containers using the sacred waters of the Spring of Pristos. For ages, the glassblowers themselves have been trying to suss out how the ale’s containers have been used to hold carbonation over long distances of travel.