Thranish Practices

While the Church of the Silver Flame does offer services every Sul to promote community building, meetings aren’t devoted to repeating dogma; rather, they focus on building skills. Services usually split youth from adults, with youth services being a more fun and hands-on extension of primary schooling. Adult services are more flexible, although community service and militia training are common features.
All communities with meaningful Silver Flame presence have areas dedicated to archery. Within Thrane, archery is more than just for self-defense or even hunting; it’s a national sport, with competitions sorted by age bracket. The guidelines have approximate age conversions for nonhuman ancestries; for example, a 62-year-old khoravar is in the same age bracket as a 35-year-old human.
Upon reaching the age of 16 (or nonhuman equivalent), youth go through a process of formal induction into the church as adults. This induction involves a variety of pledges to the common good, chief amongst them a pledge to take up arms against supernatural evil. Alongside their pledges, youth take an adult name—which, for trans youth, is a formal affirmation of their transition—and receive a silvered arrowhead icon to protect them from evil. (Mechanically, this is a trinket, not a magic item.)
Weddings within the Church of the Silver Flame are, as in every culture, a moment for joy and celebration. They notably feature colors in the full rainbow, rather than the silver color scheme that permeates many church functions, asa reminder of the union between the couatl and Tira Miron. Thranish weddings tend to be large and wild, a celebration for the full community.
The death of a community member is a solemn affair within the Church of the Silver Flame. The dead are cremated almost immediately after the funeral. Flamists believe that the souls of the faithful are purified by their time in Dolurrh, and that when they fade they are accepted into the Flame to empower it.