Quartz 5

Cult of the Four Seasons

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Cult of the Four Seasons

Maridor is a small island near the centre of the continent, some four days’ walk from Teremisis. It is the seat of a powerful marid named Nuoda, who raised upon the island a cult of genasi.

Tenets

The cult holds many beliefs, chief among them that life is water:

  • Water changes shape and moves, but is never destroyed. There is no such thing as death - even the hottest fire only turns water to vapour.
  • The closer one is to water, the more exalted one is. People are made of water, and so must be respected; purer beings, such as water genasi, are accorded greater honour, while those nearer to other elements - genasi of other kinds, dragonborn, dragons, and the like - are accorded less.
  • The cult keeps a measure of isolation from the outer world. Within its bounds it uses no fire, and it divides property by labour and by purity - the closer to water, the purer.

Nuoda uses her own magic to provide for some of the islanders’ needs, and many live wholly by her ideology: to be water - always moving, dangerous when disrespected yet kind, flowing around hard problems but never ceasing to wear away at them, for still waters run deep.

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