Lifeseed (Life-seed)
A huge plant-like mass that beats like a living heart. The Lifeseed was what caused the wild age on Egapesh.
Holy Books & Codes
The Lifeseed itself has never spoken, but a few of its most devout followers have claimed that it sent them visions in their dreams. They claim that it is the Lifeseed's will that all of the civilization be consumed by nature and for the world to become as it was during the wild age of Egapesh. These visions are passed down by members of the cult of the Lifeseed, with the tales deviating slightly from the source with each generation, often becoming more radical in the destruction of civilization.
Divine Symbols & Sigils
The Lifeseed is symbolized by a Wooden carving, usually of a flat geometric shape with the center cut out in the shape of an upside-down tear.
Tenets of Faith
- Strength: One must be powerful enough that even nature itself must bend a knee.
- The wilds: Civilization is a plague upon this land, and must be exterminated.
- Chaos: Not even the natural order of nature can hold back true chaos, so it is better to just embrace it.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
The Lifeseed was originally discovered on Egapesh by an impoverished farming community during the age of strife. It is said the villagers had vivid dreams instructing them to offer a dead rabbit to the Seed to receive an incredibly bountiful harvest. The villagers heeded the dreams and tossed a rabbit they had recently hunted into the mass of vines and thorns. As the dream promised, the next harvest season was incredibly bountiful and the village became very wealthy. The divided and impoverished state of the village was replaced with full bellies and happy villagers, all thanks to the Lifeseed. Year after year the Lifeseed granted the village bountiful harvests, but always for a price. One year it was a deer, the next a horse, and the next a person. Every year the cost grew greater, but the village had grown so reliant that they could not afford a squalid harvest, so every year they paid the price. An elderly woman. The blacksmith's son. The baker's infant child. Eventually, the villagers forgot why they paid tribute to the Seed in the first place and began to worship it as a fell god of nature. After this became known, the villagers were known as the Cult of the Lifeseed, and they worked to spread the children of the Lifeseed across Egapesh, thereby spreading its influence. Wherever the Cult of the Lifeseed went, wild vines and thickets grew, and the creatures of nature went mad with tainted power. The nomadic travelings of the cult killed crops and livestock and caused the wild age, an age in which more would join the cult in an attempt to increase their odds of survival.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
The motives of the Lifeseed has always been completely unknown.
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