Hear ye, clergypeople of the sundry waters! For the conjunction is upon us, Phlegmatic Mercury aligns with Saline Mars, and on these three holiest of moons, we call ye to the Flotsam Cathedral for a great reckoning! Take heed; such an event will not happen again for another year-score.
HUMORIST SECTS ATTENDING THE SYNOD:
- Naturally, the Driftwood Papacy act as the hosts, the Synod occurring in the Flotsam Cathedral. They seek to forge positive relations with (and perhaps subsume) as many of the other religions of the Arabus as they can within the duration of the Synod.
-The Scrollbound are a more conservative derivative of he Papcy that split right after the Papacy subsumed the Terranites about a century ago. They believe that the Papacy's policy of welcoming other religions creates impurity, and that the Jetsam Compendium is a bastardized mess devoid of spiritual significance. They instead turn to their eponymous Ashen Scrolls of DHMH for truth, which they claim are the original sources of the epics at the beginning of the Jetsam. As such, their relationship to the Papacy is strained at best.
-The mindset of the Gallimaufrists as a whole can be described as "why stop at just 7 Humors?". Every organism (even every individual) has an uncountable number of Humors specific to its anatomical and spiritual makeup, and trying to balance just 7 of them is a fool's errand. Through self-reflection and autosurgery, you can discover the Humors latent within you, and take your balancing into your own hands! Disclaimer: the Gallimaufrist Collective is not responsible for injury or death as a result of ripping your body apart to find out which yet-unseen Humor is out of balance now.
-The Exans are Humorists who believe the path to enlightenment is not through balance or moderation, but rather through choosing to idealize or purge a certain Humor from one's body. When you succeed on reaching this ideal state, then you will become divine. Most view these people as fanatics or extremists.
NON-HUMORIST SECTS ATTENDING THE SYNOD:
-The Blue Flame Order is a strange mix between a church and a knighthood system. It is in worship of the Knight, Industry's Patriarch, Clink-Clink, Soul of Blue Flame. The Knight is an egregoric representation of industrialization and all its baggage, and adherents of the Knight often take up modern crafts and hollow out their chests to keep blue flame burning to keep them in eternal toil. The Ieruits are their greatest enemies.
-The Redwing Church (credit to FifthDragon) is one of the only major bird religions of the Arabus. Its adherents, the Flock, believe that it is their duty to sing the Sun into the sky and ward it against the shadows that seek to devour it. Should the Sun be destroyed, as it has and inevitably will, the Crimson Pope will rise and take its place. The twin Canticles (Radiant and Vulgate) serve as canon and prayer alike.
-The Maelstromites are based out of the Spinning City of Zinn-Zynann, found in the eye of a permanent micro-hurricane. The city is built inside a top-like cone rapidly rotated by the buffeting winds of the storm. They believe the weather is a massive entity deserving of worship, and their rituals focus around changing its moods so that the climate may serve them.
-The Annites. Wait, fuck, you sent the invitation to her? Now we're going to have to acknowledge the damn Gnomsticists! Demerits to whoever made THAT mistake.
-This is a living library. More may/will appear as they come up.
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