Miscellaneous Lore Post

• The Taint

Was it your will or not, to sense the Evil is to be corrupted by it. When you witness its ugly form, when you hear its nauseating howls, when you smell its sickening stench, when you read its foul words and messages... Your being becomes tainted by it one way or another, and thus more susceptible to the Serpent.

Some Herquistion members believe that even be informed about existence of the Serpent means to be Tainted by Its influence. It is not a sin, but it is… bewailful. Remedy Engifted can cleanse your body and purify your mind, but the fact of being touched by the corruption even once is enough to never be pure again, and thereby all you do will never be perfect anymore.

It is why many dither to even consider fighting Umbral Horros or Heretics – a fear of such taint. Likewise to sovereigns and leaders, who would rather avoid risks of tainting own people and ask established heroes to sacrifice already tainted purity in extermination of the most acute Tarfested nests, while leaving the conquest of what is much further to “valiant fools”.

Though some sistren see it as a proof the Tuhr, who fully contributed oneself to the cause. It is how the Red Capes and Knights of Creation are eventually forced to join Ordono Kerno and bear their bells. After years of fervently slaughtering Heretics and Jealous Beastiary they get soaked in corruption, so deep this Taint that no Purification nor Cleansing can save them anymore – a doleful sacrifice… a sacrifice they do to protect the rest of us, so we never get corrupted even slightest.

Our duty to them and Meora is to stay as pure as she created us – Gorgeous in body and Joyful in spirit. Yet peaceful lives are never safe: Envious and their Cults always try to poison waters, food and air just by mere existing. They whisper cursed words in their tongue when you sleep, enough to reach your ears for you to remember them. They desecrate walls with paintings to make you see visions you shouldn’t. They never stop… they desire to pollute our Souls in the name of the Deathless Devourer, so She remembers us imperfect.

• Soul

We are born from Her flesh, and when we die we return to Her flesh – with all our substance, with all our memories, with all our emotions.

Meora remembers Her every dear child. All we achieved, all we experienced, all we dreamed about – She remembers it all, our Allmother. This memory of us is what we call a Soul.

Sometimes Meora may shows us apparition of dear to us, who are already part of Her, to comfort our life, but as well through the Gift we can conjure these memories of our ancestors – in a shape of phantoms and ghosts they will appear. Moreover, there are rumors of places where souls roam free like Her misbehaving children, when their own death is mere nothing compared to ardor of reasons to stay alive and play around.

But to be remembered by Meora is to be truly loved, and we always shall live our lives in such way She remembers us as pure as when we born.

• Anomalous presence

An uncontrollable Aura of change surrounding high-grade Engifted, which alters the reality into what it shouldn’t be, driven by broken sanity and twisted understanding of the world.