Uriens Prayers Holy days and Saints

Urianath Prayers

The Urianath have many sayings they utter repeatedly, as they contemplate the world and their own spirits. One of the most common is a meditation on light:

“Father Sky, the Sun and Moon,

Giver of the golden boon,

Silver twilight, radiant dawn,

The cycle ceaseless carries on.

“Hallowed heavens, pitch and star,

Thou kindle even near and far.

Thy light shines out when all is dim,

Thy darkness forms the nightly hymn.”

Holy Days

The Urianath view each dawn and dusk as holy events, and most are sure to be outside to observe these events daily. Whenever there is a complete solar or lunar eclipse, the Urianath celebrate indoors, as they consider it a taboo to be under the sky at such times. Some cultures have special celebrations of the sun at harvest or planting time. These are usually festivals to Urian, and the local skylarks will aid in the celebration, but they are not universal celebrations across all cultures. The eyries do not have regular times for services; they are places of constant meditation.

Saints

The Urianath recall the names of saints as those who have made significant contributions to freeing all people. If someone deterred an empire from conquering the world or stopped an infernal plan to subjugate the mortal races, she would find herself revered as a saint by the Urianath, regardless of her faith. Usually for the Urianath, sainthood requires martyrdom, as it is not likely for one to achieve such ends without the loss of one’s own life.
The most notable of the saints revered by the Urianath is Griffin Saint Mathilde, who was the last of the sect of griffins. Her entire order was wiped out by a demonic cult working to bring forth one of their most powerful dark princes. The cult did not realize Mathilde had survived, however, and in the last moments of its vile rite to call the demon, she sacrificed herself to close the gate. Her act wiped out the cultists and barred the prince from entering the material plane for one hundred years and a day. Since that time, there have been no griffins, for there is no one to train them, but their sacrifice is remembered, for they saved the world from certain doom.

Type

Religious, Organised Religion