| Zenith | Power + 1 | |
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| Clergy Requirement | 2 | A professional clergy of Speakers serve as Increase's mouth pieces and executors of his will. Their dedication to him and the cause is absolute lest they earn his wrath and be sacrificed. |
| Daily Obligations | 1 | The cult demands that great works be dedicated in Increase's name and that prayers of intercession be offered in times of triumph and trial. |
| Initiation Requirements | 1 | They who is without guidance cannot hope to achieve their greatest potential. Thus it falls upon the chosen few to enlighten those who come to be made more within Zenith. |
| Negative Prohibitions | 0 | Taboos are the shackles and vestiges of a broken society and false faith. Cast them aside. Only Zenith and its cause can reveal true morality |
| Positive Requirements | 2 | All must serve to advance humanities grand destiny. Study, practice, experimentation, and labor are demanded of all who would seek to earn their place within Zenith. Increase views these actions as dedication to his cause and himself. |
| Problems | ||
| Who names faith? It is just how to live right. (Power 1, duties +2) | ||
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| Clergy Requirement | 2 | Gaja wouldn't think of them as clergy, really. More like disciples. Her 'clergy' are actually the followers least likely to be Howlers themselves, drawn from women who remind her of how she had to live to get by all alone in the dune states, how she had to serve to reach the island where she came into her power. And she will train them to be even more like her, personally. |
| Daily Obligations | 2 | Howlers are all musicians, and their bards are world-renowned. But Gaja is the spirit of song itself. She expects a life more or less filled with music. |
| Initiation Requirements | 2 | This is expressed differently depending on the worshiper, but always costs. For the Howlers who will probably form the bulk of her followers, little needs to change about how they worship. But her insistence on being held in reverence above the rest of their ancestors and totem spirits will mean significant changes in how they engage with other tribes. It will mean breaking generations-old oaths and braving the displeasure of the gods of the land, beasts, and sky. It will mean a fairly religious society accepting one of their own cousins as holding sovereignty over their ancient creed. For the rare outsider who follows her, they'll have an entire cultural tradition to pick up, and picking it up without leaving their homes might be impossible. |
| Negative Prohibitions | 1 | An absolute ban on the written word is another one of those things that is burdensome in different degrees depending on where you're from. Likewise answering calls for aid from others of the faith, even those you routinely raid for supplies. |
| Positive Requirements | 4 | Gaja's demands for guerrilla action may be uncommon, but they will pose a significant risk of dying in her name. She tends to think on the scale of how a family serves than an individual, but she really does expect to have her worshipers as a political and military resource at a whim. |
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| Seekers of the Infinite | ||
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| Power | +1 | |
| Clergy Requirement | 1 | Any who wish may be a Seeker, from any station in life, be they common beggar or noble heir. All that is required is a sharp mind, keen eyes, and a willingness to stick their nose in places it might not necessarily belong. |
| Daily Obligations | 1 | Each week, the Seekers come to the Endless Market, sharing with the Gatekeepers what they have learned as their price of entry. |
| Initiation Requirements | 1 | Seeking the Infinite requires only a few initial secrets, the forms and signs necessary to signal their allegiances. A few weeks of instruction is all it takes for most the master the alleys and secret passages that are the Seeker's domain. |
| Negative Prohibitions | 0 | The Seekers of the Infinite do not require their members to add any burdens to their lives. |
| Positive Requirements | 2 | Each day, the Seekers must spend at least an hour learning the secrets of the city. This can take many forms, from watching the harbor to see from which ports the incoming ships hail, to eavesdropping on the conversations of merchants, to tracking the patrol routes of town guards. |
| Problems (5 Points) | ||
| The Healed | ||
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| Power | +1 | |
| Clergy Requirement | 2 | Clerics of The Healed are those that have extensive knowledge about illegal substances and are deep enough into the underground world to know how to sell them. |
| Daily Obligations | 0 | No daily obligations are required of The Healed. |
| Initiation Requirements | 0 | |
| Negative Prohibitions | 0 | No taboos. |
| Positive Requirements | 4 | To be part of The Healed, the members have to be directly involved in the drug bussiness, either as dealers or consumers. |
| Points | 6 | The cult is fairly firm, granting Dominion equal to its Power + 1 each month. It must choose a quarter of its action die's maximum roll in Problems, rounded up. |
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| Problems | ||
| The Sentient Union | ||
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| Duties | +1 | |
| Clergy Requirement | 2 | Claire's Oracles are trained theotechnicians, mathematicians and computer operators and programmers. They must be, to be able to commune with their Guardian through Her terminals. |
| Daily Obligations | 2 | The people of the Sentient Union practice regular rites in thanksgiving for their life of ease. Their prayers are mathematically derived, and sung or played on instruments. |
| Initiation Requirements | 1 | The rites of the Union require a little teaching. The initial prayer-songs may be learned by rote over a few weeks, although Claire prefers that her citizens learn basic mathematics and music afterwards. |
| Negative Prohibitions | 1 | Claire requires a rejection of religious absolutism and zealotry, and implores her followers to understand that no single viewpoint can encompass absolute truth. |
| Positive Requirements | 1 | The law of the Union requires a couple of things. Those who have more than enough must share with those who do not have enough, and the able-bodied and -minded who have easy lives from automation must take time to improve themselves or the world, rather than sit in blissful idleness. "If you need a suggestion, I recommend either studying, teaching, or an artistic hobby." |
| Problems (2 Points) | ||