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Miscellany regarding the Great Church

 
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Scott
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:05 pm    Post subject: Miscellany regarding the Great Church Reply with quote

The Revelation of the Nameless God

Almost 1,000 years ago, St. Ilward the Revelator discovered the Codex of the Prerogatives in the caverns below the homely village that would become the City Afar. St. Ilward brought up the Codex and made it be opened; those villagers not struck dead became his Apostles, and went forth to spread the Word. The True Codex lies sealed in the vaults of the Cathedral of the Nameless God in the City Afar, but a verbatim transcription of St. Ilward's Revelation is possessed by every Church, advanced clergy, and pious laity of means.


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John Thompson
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shall we consider ourselves free to invent verses from the True Codex at will?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

John Thompson wrote:
Shall we consider ourselves free to invent verses from the True Codex at will?

Sure, because the Transcript that's housed in every church is an exact verbatim copy of St. Ilward's Revelation, so it's practically as if you've read the True Codex yourself, although only the sanctified and invested Pontifex can actually do so without turning into a pile of goo. It is said.

Every ambitious acolyte, of course, aspires to own his own Transcript.

The tone alternates between harangues, threats, and dire prophecies, typical Lawful fire-and-brimstone, with occasionally incomprehensible references and allusions. There are also a startling number of exhortations to BURN YOUR DEAD, as in, "And Lo! The Beast of Bellairs did present to the shepherds its many-tongued dorsal aspect, from which forthwith wriggled a bald wizened ape of lavender hue, from which elder ape forthwith emanated an ooze of noisome reek, from which burbling ooze forthwith issued hoots and chirps, as if from a bird of the field. BURN YOUR DEAD."
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 7:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You will not be punished for your anger.

You will be punished by your DEAD THAT YOU FAILED TO BURN.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thou shalt not kill.

However, shit happens, and if so, BURN YOUR DEAD.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"No, Lars, you can't have the torch. We have to have it to burn the dead."

"LARS CAN BURN DEAD TOO."

"No, Lars, you have to make lots more dead for us to burn."

"MAKING CORPSES AND NOT BURNING THEM IS LIKE EATING LARS'S VEGETABLES AND THEN NOT GETTING DESSERT."
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 2:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

�Of all the pestilence's dire; famine, flood, fire, locust, and plague; By Nohool and his Skraelings rehearsed, an Elf making ambiguous gestures shall be known as the worst�
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmmm...

I guess if the Great Church demands BURNING OF THE DEAD, then that totally changes the whole idea of a cemetery, doesn't it?

A lot of Mausoleums?

Urns on the fireplace mantle for Grammy and Grampie?

Funeral pyres as part of the wake?

Or is there still a cemetery for the community, but the urn gets buried in lieu of a corpse?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I haven't delved too far yet into the memorial practices of the widespread Church. I imagine that they vary between urban and rural area, and across social class.

Graveyards are a holdover from pagan times, and there are still ruralities that have them. That's what missionaries are for.

In Tegel, the monks of the Holy Brotherhood to the south of the village operate a crematorium, and most folks take Uncle Heward home to their hovel in a clay amphora or similarly humble vessel. There's nothing as high-falutin as a shelved mausoleum.

There's a graveyard in the Tegel region, but it's an adjunct to the Temple of Nivatopredi on the hillock east of town. Those heathens *do* bury their dead, in defiance of the True Law and any number of dire millenial prophecies.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Let no man's brother lie unburnt on unhallowed earth, lest his body rise to do evil against his family."

"As man warms to the fire in life, let his body rest among the embers that sustained him in death."

The True Codex, the Book of Injunctions, Chapter 11, verses 6 and 9.

I'm guessing crypts with skeletons tucked away in the crannies would likewise be a source of mortal revulsion for us.
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