the agarthian gift of sapience
Mythology & Lore
The Agarthian gift of sapience says that it exist a hive of extremely intelligent bees, the Agarthian, that exist deep under the world, those bees, imbued with the power of dreams, are able to give sapience to any creature by stinging it. All the creatures that has been gifted by the bees of Agartha are called lycan. Those Lycan are powerful creatures with spiritual powers; and are to be linked by pact with ork shamans.
Cosmological Views
Inside the world is hidden the hive of Agartha were the bees lives. On the surface, Lycan roams in nature, protecting it from destruction by the Elnumals and their thirst for resources. Orks are their chosen normal specie to become host of their incredible strength.
Tenets of Faith
Protect the nature at all cost. Preserve it, respect it. Nature is sacred. Never forget the spirits of your ancestors, fight in their name, and never dishonour them.
Ethics
The tenets say protect nature at all cost, but never justify war and massacre for the sake of nature protection. Always pay respect to the ancestors and leave them in peace.
Worship
Every day the Shaman maintain his garden and attend the treant he lives with. He shares the honey created by the bees with them and thanks them by insuring there are flowers around the treant they live in.
Priesthood
The shamans are the priesthood of the sacred nature. They are chosen by the bees, and obtain their power by eating the fruit of a treant, and feeding on the honey of the bees. They then chose a totem animal in the Lycan tribes.
Granted Divine Powers
The shaman is granted the power to have a twin soul with the lycan he partners with; which mean he shares vision and physiological attributes (strength, hearing, sight, stamina...) and can transform temporarily into a normal animal version of the lycan. And the power to be able to interpret the agarthian bussing into a coherent language.
Political Influence & Intrigue
They are the centre of wisdom in villages, and highly respected being in larger cities, in any way they are sacred, even the women respect them to the point of thinking them as equal.
Sects
Some feral lycan may draw a shaman into totally renouncing his culture to become an animal. This is rare.
The hive speak, listen to the buzzing
Type
Religious, Divine Host
Parent Organization
Permeated Organizations
Location
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