#drybone

GreenEyedSage @GreenEyedSage Jul 25

Does your OC take the Twelve seriously? Are they a follower? Whats their take on them?

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Ruckus is fairly folk-superstitious, as he picks up/puts down other 'little things', customs people do around Eorzea to invoke the Twelve. He doesn't swear but he does sometimes attribute things happening to their respective gods, even when he for the most part just plays around with the vague concepts of them. He does like hearing tales of the Eorzean saints, their folk-hero status and virtues, but wouldn't call himself 'religiously devout'.

While he claims he has no patience for meditation, prayer or listening to Swaenhylt's preaching, does on occasion perform privately meaningful rites to Oschon, Azemya & Nald'Thal.

Last year he accompanied Mimita Mita to Thal's Respite and The Red Labyrinth and on her annual pilgrimages, mostly out of curiousity and because he feels protective of her. He found himself feeling wildly out of place and uncomfortable in the stillness and gravity, beside her solemn devotionals. A part of this is that he's been very... deliberately avoidant, of mourning, making levity of dour funerary faces where he can.

He made an offering at the latter out of efforts to try and seem respectful and engaged, beside her, and recieved a blessing (in the form of Cactuar Cantina's land deed) fairly soon thereafter.

It's difficult to be raised in Drybone and *not* have some kind of opinion about the Traders. As a boy at the Bazaar, he heard them called upon during nearly every transaction, a blessing of prosperity but also as an affirmation of fair exchanges, or a pithy sympathy to acknowledge someone's loss.

So in many ways Nald'Thal is...culturally obligatory, and the Church of Adama Landama's role in post-Calamital recovery meant that a lot of burial rites were performed Right There and in a big hurry, in the midst of the land's upheaval, a regional community displaced by the chaos tethering together for survival in a military encampment, and his self-denied teenaged grief over losing both parents.

(In the middle of this, of course, there was a minor fateful Ruckus over a the retrieval of moonshine cache.)

So Thal is particularly tied in to his experience of that time, and the Church's lead in soothing and serving the community, but mostly, primarily, getting a surplus of paupers and soldiers under the dirt and (hopefully) getting their souls up on the scales, before they turned to ashkin.

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Seriously, why? Like 90% of the time I come here it’s raining when I port in.