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Since life on and near the sea was so much a part of life for Catullans, nearly every religious pantheon that developed on the planet featured a sea deity as a primary figure. | Since life on and near the sea was so much a part of life for Catullans, nearly every religious pantheon that developed on the planet featured a sea deity as a primary figure. | ||
'''Kliegerst''': The holy storm, a subtropical region of the Catullan seas in which (by coincidence of local land masses and ocean currents) storm activity was nearly continuous for centuries at a time. Many Catullan cosmologies believed that the souls of the wicked were tossed in these storms endlessly, and that when these storms peeled free and drifted onto land, damaging cities and farms, it was a punishment either for the victims or for the cursed souls. Good souls drifted toward the bright, calm eye of the storms; this was either heaven or a sign that the sould was ready to ascend to it.<br> | |||
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'''Vorde Telkoode''': A trickster figure, somewhere between a particularly tenacious, powerful spirit and a deity-- always female, most frequently old, sometimes ugly, sometimes lovely. She was said to sail around the seas of Cendo Prae in or on a cauldron of variable size, which she used to stir up trouble, both literal and metaphorical. In some stories she stood inside the cauldron, and it only came up to her waist. In others she sat on one handle like a child might sit on a swing.<br> | |||
Small but intense storms, especially if they were unexpected and inconvenient, were said to be brewed by Vorde. She also cursed or transformed people. On occasion, she might deign to help someone; but if she did, she would make the help unpleasant to use, or the help would come in the form of obstacles put in the way of a third party, and often at the end of the story it would be revealed that Vorde had gained more from the whole process than the protagonists had. She was said to spend much time drifting around the outer edges of the Kliegerst, peeling secrets away from the cursed like seed fluff off a thorn bush. Furthermore, she was said to be able, for a price, to call a particular soul out of the storm, so it could be asked questions or tell secrets it could not communicate before tearing free of its original body. But paying the price for such a consultation seldom ended well for anyone except Vorde.<br> | |||
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==Society, Culture and Customs== | ==Society, Culture and Customs== | ||