Cult of Bloodmoon

[Chenier]

Hireshmont has lots of buds in Luria.

Yea, we noticed. Some would say too many.

[Graeth]

So how about that Bloodmoon fruit?

[Glaumring the Fox]

Oh... I have found out something interesting about Bloodmoon from a secret source. I am a bit reluctant to say anything on the forums though regarding it because of the nature of IG/OOG leaking. I was very surprised and hopefully it will bear fruit.  8)

[Dishman]

Oh... I have found out something interesting about Bloodmoon from a secret source. I am a bit reluctant to say anything on the forums though regarding it because of the nature of IG/OOG leaking. I was very surprised and hopefully it will bear fruit.  8)

The way you put it, sounds like this branch of star worship may actually fruit bears.

I do have to say, after reading on the Bloodmoon cult some it's much more appealing than SA. Hallucinogens FTW!

[Glaumring the Fox]

Oh the star worshipers and their stodgy religion of elders and baroque archaic way of doing things. CoB on the other hand is like the partridge family on acid, we are the long haired dirty rambling freaks, the warrior poet bards of Dwilight, we have orgies and eat strange fruit , we follow the Green hind in the astral plane  we commune with the ancient ghosts in the maze of the cosmic mind. Why wait for enlightenment we offer it right now, why wait for the voice of god.

Right now CoB is based around two god heads, Priestess Ven whose spirit is inside the realm of the sacred Bloodmoon fold who we visit ever so often and speak with. She speaks cryptically and quite often not at all, mainly we go there to relax or play or something. She lives on the edge of a forest by a river and is a kind of a ghost.

The 2nd Godhead is the Green hind who will lead you through the first level of the fold, the first being the forest, beyond the forest is other levels, only Priestess Ven has been beyond the forest with the Green Hind. The rest of us have mere glimpses of it. The hind is tricky and will try to get people lost in the forest and take them all over the place, of course there are adventures and things to see in the vast plane... There is a secret regarding the Green Hind that only a few know, I would love to talk about it but cannot unless you yourself go on the journey with it and discover what it is.

There are other forms or creatures but they often change and lack constant form, we are looking for people who are capable of discovering new godheads in the different planes or even in the forest.

One of the main aspects of the church is to conduct missionary work and constantly be preaching across the land. As of lately we have been focusing on our super secret next level of thought and gameplay that can't be spoken of here on the forum but it will and is very different than any other religion on Dwilight... Quite possibly earth shatteringly different! So join up and find out what we are up to!

[Bjarnson]

Also, Grimrog is one of the few CoB members that only consume small amounts of fruit juices and then watch the stars. Making him and a handfull of his followers slightly different then their religious brothers and sisters.

Grimrog follows the last words Ven spoke to him, where she urged discipline and control in the consumption of the sacred fruit. But after her death the followers of Vens teatchings has started to consume more to be able to converse with her within the Fold.

Grimrog do not belive the Ven within the fold are the real Ven, thus refuses to dive deep into the Fold and instead maintain focus and enhanced senses as he watches the Stars and meditate.

[Glaumring the Fox]

Ven called for control and Glaumring called for chaos. With Ven alive the plant was to be ordered and safe. With her death the church is torn between two sides of thought, control/uncontrol. The sacred fruit has spread on the wind, against lady Vens wishes and the spores spread everywhere and priests wander whereever in the rogue lands building shrines and preaching randomly around. Where Ven would have been more of a diplomat and voice Glaumring has decided to act and do things differently.

[Ironsides]

All of this is awesome. Submit it to the Bloodmoon project Bowie started in the University so I have some way of interacting with it, please.

I'm stuck on an Astromancer only part of the continent :(

[Bjarnson]

Oh, I have forgotten about your project, im sorry. Unfortunaly Grimrog has his mind occupied with other more important tasks then explaining his religion to non-Asylonians.

[Glaumring the Fox]

We have become distracted and I havent had time to go east. Every time I leave Asylon I always get called back. I will submit something soonish

[Eduardo Almighty]

My character Erik from East Continent would love the Cult. I'm used to make RPs where he drank and smoked the famous herbs from Rollbar (yes... in Sirion we have "weeds") to saw his Gddesses. ;)

Henrich, the High Magistrate of Asylon have a little of the "nice guy" concept, but I'm thinking about join the religion. He made a trvel to Zuma and I making some roleplays with Flame. I'm thinking about use the fruits along his former religions, with visions about the seas(Kid's Rock is a coastal region and also has access to a river). Let's see. First I need more informations... and time. Palying with Dukes and a King makes a little hard to take care of this character.

[Graeth]

I think it's a good time to start trying to expand this religion.  Expect some more activity related to the Cult over the next few weeks.

[Glaumring the Fox]

With the newly ressurected heaps built in Vakreno and the sacrificed Astrum soldiers that have been steadily been put inside of them and then suffocated since the war began I'd think it's be a perfect time to spread out a bit and get more participants to be sent off to the Nether to serve as Lady Ven's astral army...  ;)

None of this being true mind you... Or?  :-X

[Bolton Ancestral Ghost]

Medieval Europe had many occult religions throughout the centuries. The witch hunts and burnings of Bloody Mary (Mary Tudor, 1540) targeted not only Lutherans but also those that still worshiped idols such as forests, rock formations, statues, types of food, animals etc... We call them Pagans but they were categorised as "protestants" nonetheless. Pagans have existed since the Dark Ages. Roman rule was cut to ribbons when Rome was sacked over and over again. These pagans still exist today and do have meetings and pray to several different deities. I have talked about it with some of them at bars in south west Wales. This phenomena is not just unique to Wales, it has happened in France too. The crusade against the Cathars in  the Languedoc region of France was started because the religious "Catholic" relics of their churches were a being mixed up with local idols for local deities. For example, there are records (mainly taken from songs made by bards) showing that some Cathars had decided that a gleaming black rock was the Holy Grail. Crazily enough, Himmler in WW2 actually paid several large sums of money to get German researchers to find this rock in the Pyrenees mountains around Andorra. Even the Nazi religion was pagan in sorts, they tried to blend Jesus into a cross bread of Greek/Norse gods, but that's another story.

From what I understand about the pagan community of today is that they mainly believe in spirits who have varying degrees of power which inhabit different planes of existence which are connect to our world. Spirits exist in different places and at different times, some make contact with you, other you make contact with, many exist but never make contact with human spirits.

Personally, I enjoy the fact that Glaumring created this religion because, I do feel that CoB helps give BM a more authentic medieval atmosphere and flavour. I also think that this drama is increasing the amount of new players coming to BM, which is really nice to see. Glaumring has provided a sound "Green Hind" theory which can be openly be debate and where players can create their own adventures. Make for some stimulating and imaginative writing sometimes, I must admit.

(p.s sorry for the long history lesson I just teach it to high school students and saw the opportunity to show off.)

[Glaumring the Fox]

The 'heaps' of Vakreno have taken on a sacred type of celtic Wickerman symbology, or pyramid. They are used primarily to be stuffed with live sacrifices and then burned. Each heap internally is intricately design with gem stones and gold, everything relating to transference of life energy into the netherplane. The Vakreno offshoot of the Bloodcult is the more extreme version, its not followed by most of the other Moonies. Since the war with Astrum has started thousands of prisoners have been marched into the heaps and burned alive, very little information has seeped out but it os our intention to slowly have it seep out to the rest of Dwilight that Asylon and its religion have become darker than its original nature based cult, inorder to build more drama and create a counter to the Astroist faith slowly CoB begins to contort and Asylon will become the dark empire on the edge of the west lands. Hopefully creating more conflict, more converts, more RP for flawed characters and a chance for SA to redeem itself as the source of light in the land , where COb is the dark.