The Primal Princesses
Mythology & Lore
he Storm, Sea, Stone and Cinder, Air, Water, Earth and Fire these forces have always held power in the Rainbow Archipelago and its people have long understood that these natural forces are to be respected and in some cases feared. Fear became especially close to the heart of the people when during time of the first people Four Primordial Elemental beings spread wanton chaos and destruction in their wake. The people suffered greatly and the strongest shamans embarked on a journey to the dream world to seek the Rainbow Serpent for her wisdom. He answered the shamans and agreed that the Primal Elemental beings were causing havoc and disrupting the balance. After much consideration it was decided that the primal elementals were too alien and other worldly to easily understand and they had to be brought to a more manageable nature. It was decided that something had to be done and that something was grim but necessary choice.
From four tribes they would choose one woman to embodied virtue and wisdom and was willing to sacrifice herself for her people. These woman would come to be refered to as the Primal Princesses. Four rituals would be enacted and the four women sacrificed to a Primal Elemental being. However the shamans who had offered them to the Primal Spirits had tricked them and the ritual caused the sacrificed womens spirits to merge with the Primals transforming them into the Four Elemental Goddesses of the Many Islands.
Divine Origins
The primal princesses are a hybred of mortal women and primal elemental beings their nature and existence was made to bring some degree of control to the Primal Elementals by given them a human soul and understanding of humanity. The sacrifice of the people to save them from the wild Primal Elementals has not been forgotten and to this day they are worshiped as goddesses.
Worship
Worship of the Primal princesses either as a pantheon or individually requires a respect and interaction with the powerful elemental forces of nature at play in the rainbow archipelago. The most adamant of their faithful often risk themselves to be near flesh melting volcanos, drowning deep waves, bone breaking storm winds or dark suffocating caverns. Relying on faith and the magics of the primal princesses to protect them such places of Elemental danger are the height of communion.
Sacrifice to the Primal Princesses is common and even lay worshipers engage in this, small trinkets and food being the most common with human sacrifice being the rarest and typically reserved for heinous criminals or those willing to join the primal princesses. Song and dance is also a very common way that the people pay homage and show their admiration for the goddesses and many of the people who call the Islands home have specialized dances for each goddesses.
Priesthood
Most of the priests of the Primal Princesses are Shamans or Druids with full on clerics being rather rare.
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