Ministers of Mormekar
The ministers perform the rite, and keep the dead safe from desecration. This is the whole purpose of their order and it keeps them quite busy as naturally, people are constantly dying. Ministers almost never involve themselves in secular affairs, and few leave their sacristy but to fetch supplies and bodies. Yet some make it their mission to travel the world, administering the rite to people who cannot reach a sacristy.
Others leave to wage war against necromancers and the undead, pledging to destroy them all.
Most Mormekim ministers are neutral. They perform their duty for Mormekar and don’t give two figs about mortal society. While they sometimes perform “good” acts such as opposing the undead, they don’t do them because they believe necromancy is evil, but because it is their duty, and the undead defy the cycle of existence their god protects. This makes them seem quite lawful, but save for the rite and commands of Death, most the ministers don’t care about laws or rules. They don’t give each other orders and recognize no ranks in their churches. They serve Death, not living morality.
Yet many Mormekim are lawful neutral, and care about structures, and authority. They see the Mormekim’s wealth and importance, and believe the only thing keeping the faith from having a more profound impact is its lack of organization.
With a proper structure, including a central authority, the Mormekim could spread their faith all over the world
and into the halls of power, influencing secular society so greatly that perhaps there would be no more necromancy.
Another vocal minority consists of neutral good clergy. They’re crusaders against the undead, wanderers who wish
to extend the rite to those who might never receive it. They believe the withdrawal of the ministers into their sacristies allows much evil to be done in the world. They want to bring the mercy of Mormekar’s edicts to all people.
A very few ministers are chaotic neutral, and came to the Mormekim because the faith is about as different from the rest of mortal society as one can get. They enjoy being outsiders concerned only with death, scoffing at “the quick.” Many of these ministers play to the prejudices most folk have about the Mormekim, dressing in black and speaking in mordant voices.
A neutral evil Mormekim cult exists, and is discussed in The Cult of the Icy Breath. It rejects mainstream doctrine, reveres the undead and sanctifies killing, making it the sworn enemy of the sacristies.
Joining the Ministers
Prospective ministers go to sacristies and take a one-year vow of silence. During this time, they try to understand the stillness of the dead and learn the rite. When they have completed their time of silence, they speak the rite before any other words, and recite it perfectly and in its entirety. If they succeed, they become ministers: clerics with the Repose Domain. A minister is addressed as “Father,” or “Mother,” and introduced by full title.
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Religious, Holy Order
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