Temple of Tide and Tempest

Common in coastal settlements, the Tide and Tempest simply offers people a way to show reverence and respect for the awesome power of the sea. Many kinds of worship are preformed in these temples, from prayers for the safe return of vessels currently out at sea, thanks for the blessings of favorable wind or bountiful fishing, and rites to appease the spirits of those lost to the deep.

Structure

Loosely organized, each temple serves two or three types or worshipers and services.
Nearly all offer prayers for the lost, whether missing at sea, killed by pirates or ocean life, or drowned. These prayer services help, or so it is believed, prevent restless undead from returning from the sea to trouble the living.
Other services tend to revolve around either the positive or negative aspects of both sea and storm. For example, a temple may hold storm-watching vigils, to appease a hurricane or thunderstorm at sea by honoring and validating it's fury. While another temple may give offerings to the sea, thanking it for favorable trade winds and bountiful harvest of oysters and pearls.

These services are as varied and unique as the community in which they are preformed, and most temples of this sort have little, if any, communication between one another beyond the 4 times a year they send emissaries on pilgrimage to visit all temples and shrines along a certain coastline.

Culture

These communities tend to be average people, doing what they feel they can in the face of overwhelming natural forces. They try to help each other as much as possible, after all life in most coastal communities is difficult. Small festivals are common, as a way to share what bounty the sea and the rains provide, as well as a form of community outreach and morale boost.

"Life and bounty belong to the sea. It provided, as easily as it takes. So too do we thank the sky and storm, for it can both fill our sails and shatter us."

Type

Religious, Organised Religion

Alternative Names

Storm Worshipers, Tide Prayers

Demonym

Tideneer