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From the section listing various death-worshipping priesthoods for NPC clerics, I quote (in part):
The Goddess of Murder
This evil deity embraces cold murder as the quintessential act of destruction, symbolic of the primordial chaos and the unpredictable forces of nature that oppose humanity. This deity is the patron of all unnatural and premediated killing, whether it is inflicted on others or upon oneself. She opposes order, creation, and all existence.
The male priests of this goddess, sometimes called Stranglers or Assassins, spread death around the world by murdering for their Dark Mother, the Queen of the Noose, our Maid of Despair. Her priests advance the religion into the heart of civilization, efficiently eliminating any who speak out against them. Assassination is their most sacred mission, a holy and meritorious enterprise undertaken in the service of their deity.
But that's just the background. Past the usual 29382938477 stats and spells, we get to:
All members of the priesthood are male, since the priest and goddess are joined in a symbolic marriage. Although the priests are thus forbidden from marrying mortal women, they are not required to be celibate. Indeed, most cults have temple prostitutes as proxies for the goddess during the seasonal ceremonial rituals and weekly orgies.
Mmmm, weekly orgies.
However, since worship of the opposite sex is a central tenet of their religion, Stranglers are generally forbidden from harming them. The male priest views himself as the son, husband, and father of all the women in the world.
Triple goddess, much?
To harm any of these relationships would damage his intimate link with the goddess, resulting in an immediate loss of all granted powers and highest level spells until the priest has suitably atoned for such an outrage (ritual suicide by strangulation is usually considered to be a suitable apology.) On rare occasions, the goddess may make exceptions to this rule, but only when specific women have offended her.
Mmm, divine bitchfights via submissive assassins. And I'm not even going to go into the satisfying symbolic cross-connections that are occuring between the listed clerical symbol of the noose and, ah, other openings.
But oh dear fucking god. It's everything I love about over-the-top necromancy and everything I love about those death-obsessed submissive men who keep haunting my brain (Bennington people, read: AKHAI!) and everything I love about unexpected goddess-worship ROLLED INTO ONE! I WANT ONE! The mind boggles! The rules systems explode! The DMs headdesk in despair!
And so do I, because I don't have an icon goth enough for this post. Mikage will have to do. And perhaps I should hit Photoshop, except I want to crash early as I'm trying to haul my sleep cycle back from the 4AM to 1PM rut I've been in--maybe back to a nice 1AM to 10AM, which keeps both me and the family much happier. Edit: GIP!
...........and no, I'm not sure I want to know what it says about my personality, Joharized or otherwise, that I am so fucking entertained by this.
From the section listing various death-worshipping priesthoods for NPC clerics, I quote (in part):
The Goddess of Murder
This evil deity embraces cold murder as the quintessential act of destruction, symbolic of the primordial chaos and the unpredictable forces of nature that oppose humanity. This deity is the patron of all unnatural and premediated killing, whether it is inflicted on others or upon oneself. She opposes order, creation, and all existence.
The male priests of this goddess, sometimes called Stranglers or Assassins, spread death around the world by murdering for their Dark Mother, the Queen of the Noose, our Maid of Despair. Her priests advance the religion into the heart of civilization, efficiently eliminating any who speak out against them. Assassination is their most sacred mission, a holy and meritorious enterprise undertaken in the service of their deity.
But that's just the background. Past the usual 29382938477 stats and spells, we get to:
All members of the priesthood are male, since the priest and goddess are joined in a symbolic marriage. Although the priests are thus forbidden from marrying mortal women, they are not required to be celibate. Indeed, most cults have temple prostitutes as proxies for the goddess during the seasonal ceremonial rituals and weekly orgies.
Mmmm, weekly orgies.
However, since worship of the opposite sex is a central tenet of their religion, Stranglers are generally forbidden from harming them. The male priest views himself as the son, husband, and father of all the women in the world.
Triple goddess, much?
To harm any of these relationships would damage his intimate link with the goddess, resulting in an immediate loss of all granted powers and highest level spells until the priest has suitably atoned for such an outrage (ritual suicide by strangulation is usually considered to be a suitable apology.) On rare occasions, the goddess may make exceptions to this rule, but only when specific women have offended her.
Mmm, divine bitchfights via submissive assassins. And I'm not even going to go into the satisfying symbolic cross-connections that are occuring between the listed clerical symbol of the noose and, ah, other openings.
But oh dear fucking god. It's everything I love about over-the-top necromancy and everything I love about those death-obsessed submissive men who keep haunting my brain (Bennington people, read: AKHAI!) and everything I love about unexpected goddess-worship ROLLED INTO ONE! I WANT ONE! The mind boggles! The rules systems explode! The DMs headdesk in despair!
...........and no, I'm not sure I want to know what it says about my personality, Joharized or otherwise, that I am so fucking entertained by this.
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