02-05-2024, 07:37 PM
Of A Sermon of Alacritas - AC2077
Flowers bloom as birds and butterflies flock to Solais, a breath of life endlessly pulsing from it. Vitality burst forth spreading through the four directions. I could feel it through the winds, it is alive and it is singing it's Vitality throughout the continent.
And so the words:
"Welcome to the Alacritan' Churchs third sermon. And, to Solais' twentieth anniversary; since the rite of ascension had been completed, Solais has been watching over Mankind and the Frontier for twenty whole years.
So much has happened - both good, both bad, and all a part of life.
And yet, we must remember to endure -- for Alacritas, a constant as she is, always surrounds us - and Solais is a combination of Hope and Life. He reminds us that we must remain strong as ever, to not turn our backs on our ideals and on what we love so dearly"
"Grant, O' Lady Alacritas and Solais, thy protection.
And in protection, strength.
And in strength, understanding. And in understanding, knowledge.
And in knowledge, the knowledge of justice, and in the knowledge of justice, the love of it, and in the love of it - the love of all existences.
And in the love of all existences, the love of Solais and Alacritas;
Hope and Life, and all goodness"
"It is in you that we learn the beauty of life, and through your wisdom the strength to be kind, Lady Alacritas.
It is through your stalwart protection that we learn to not give up hope, Solais - our beloved tree." -Az[Redacted]
Candle lights would raise above the ground, circling about the Solais and solemn awe. And my arm, the little occult influence I've yet purged from it, would tug me away from it. Though, it is but a futile and negligible attempt.
"A new year comes. Life grows and sprouts, while a new generation follows.
Lady Silver Alacritas, Constant of Life,
Gaze upon your childs, old and young, who pray and wish for your love and kind embrace to be shared. Solais, hear their prayers of Hope and Life, and help their words to be carried through your branches, reaching the everlasting sky that covers our world.
The world is vast, and there is plenty of wonders to discover. But many thorns lay ahead in such adventures. But it's in these challenges, that we understand Life's beauty and value in the Living, and how precious it is to preserve and take care.
Earlier before Solais' growth, some remember the catastrophic year of Ragnarok, where for a whole year Meranthe was covered in darkness due to eruption of Vdalion's volcano. A year, marked by anguish and despair. But from the ashes, Life was reborn, and through the collective prayers of Hope and Life, we stood tall. We stood strong and united. And Solais, is the embodiment of these prayers. A living symbol of our will to Live and remain Hopefull.
A new generation is born since these events. We pray, for them, for their safety, for their growing success, as we pray for the bravery, courage, patience and kindness of the older generation to share their knowledge and virtues." - Sv[Redacted]
Additional candles are raise, rotating about Solais as it exudes incense. The Lifestream could be felt from the sheer strength of its pulses.
Afterwards, Re[Redacted] said forth a prayer in an unknown language.
It went on, ceremonies and exclamations, blessings of Solais rained down on me as cosmic dust, freeing me from pain, both known and not. My hand would die from writing it all. Nonetheless, it conveyed one message, of the celebration of life and hope and it's continuation.
Slight interruption, it is interrupted (though subtly ignored) by presence of those from the Enclave. Bad blood as a result from wars.
Alacritas - 2080 AC
I have missed the major portion of the sermon, not making it in time for the welcome and prayers. A sermon of struggles, a prayer to surpass them, and the assurance of being loved.
But it's not as if I missed it in it's entirety.
The tenets of Lady Alacritas:
Protect and save Life
Respect Life
Grow Life
and an Unconditional Love and Kindess to neighbors
The initiation speach:
"Lady Alacritas, Silver Constant of Life,
Those in front of us wish to be wrapped in your kind embrace, and learn under your name your tenets on Life.
Under your name, they wish to protect Life. They wish to share your kindness and goodwill. They wish to nurture and defend the will to Live and the Hope within other souls. To act as an extension of your will and your charisma. To show the world the beauty of life and the Divines’ Creation."
"To you, Children of Alacritas.
Are you ready to embrace this journey of discovery along with the Lady Silver of Life ? To be true to your beliefs and display it without shyness? To protect the world and the Nature created, and deepen your connection to her Lady? And most importantly, are you ready to join her embrace without any remorse and regret, and doing it willingly with your true self?" - [Redacted] Priest of Alacritas.
Jiuweihu, Spirit of the Sun, Matron of the Kitsunes. Upon the creation of the Lifestream by Nyssa and Alacritas, many Lifeforms emerged. Of them, powerful elementals and spirits, some blessing humanity. Of them, Leanaus, Asena, and others.
Learning of Alacritas is to learn of life and its consequence on the universe.
Life is a universal tenet present in many other Gods, Pantheons, and Primordials. Include but not limited to Nemea, Mestra, and Caius
2 new initiates entered into the Church of Alacritas. A bud of Lotus baptizing them and a cowl symbolizing their oath as they entered.
Three orders offered: Of Healing, Of Protectors, and Of Scholars... Scholars... how interesting... I wonder if they have a library I could gander.
Of A Shepherd's Sermon 2087 AC
A faith which enshrines Lady Mortyl and Lord Caius, the Constant and Primordial of Death in order. Taking place upon the Celestial Orrery within Final Frontier, led by one Caligo Thymai Equisol and Delilah Parton.
After introductions, a prayer is offered:
Humble mother of departed souls, and kindly Father that sees Spirits home.
Accepting of all dead, we offer our thanks. Hallowed guardians of the Late, we are reverent in knowing we shall greet you in due time.
This solemn vow of acceptance of death, Shepherds are offered and pledge. Yet by the grace of Death's Lady and Lord, may it be long before we are to meet.
And when it is, at last, our time. May we be ferried among the dead. Returned to the stars and realms beyond, to see our kin once more.
A question is posed: What is the value of a single life?
The question is rhetoric, rather it is an ideal in itself. The Shepherds main goal is to aid others in the completion of their lives. To fulfill their goals, satisfy their desires, and lead them to a desirable end upon their path.
In doing so, the worth of lives increase, their death ever more so worth.
...
A life lived for the sake of others... As idealistic as it may sound, I cannot bear to agree with their lifestyle. And at the same time I cannot deny it. To find fulfilment in fulfilling the lives of others, you faithfully surrender your lives to humanity as a whole. A dangerous gamble.
Flowers bloom as birds and butterflies flock to Solais, a breath of life endlessly pulsing from it. Vitality burst forth spreading through the four directions. I could feel it through the winds, it is alive and it is singing it's Vitality throughout the continent.
And so the words:
"Welcome to the Alacritan' Churchs third sermon. And, to Solais' twentieth anniversary; since the rite of ascension had been completed, Solais has been watching over Mankind and the Frontier for twenty whole years.
So much has happened - both good, both bad, and all a part of life.
And yet, we must remember to endure -- for Alacritas, a constant as she is, always surrounds us - and Solais is a combination of Hope and Life. He reminds us that we must remain strong as ever, to not turn our backs on our ideals and on what we love so dearly"
"Grant, O' Lady Alacritas and Solais, thy protection.
And in protection, strength.
And in strength, understanding. And in understanding, knowledge.
And in knowledge, the knowledge of justice, and in the knowledge of justice, the love of it, and in the love of it - the love of all existences.
And in the love of all existences, the love of Solais and Alacritas;
Hope and Life, and all goodness"
"It is in you that we learn the beauty of life, and through your wisdom the strength to be kind, Lady Alacritas.
It is through your stalwart protection that we learn to not give up hope, Solais - our beloved tree." -Az[Redacted]
Candle lights would raise above the ground, circling about the Solais and solemn awe. And my arm, the little occult influence I've yet purged from it, would tug me away from it. Though, it is but a futile and negligible attempt.
"A new year comes. Life grows and sprouts, while a new generation follows.
Lady Silver Alacritas, Constant of Life,
Gaze upon your childs, old and young, who pray and wish for your love and kind embrace to be shared. Solais, hear their prayers of Hope and Life, and help their words to be carried through your branches, reaching the everlasting sky that covers our world.
The world is vast, and there is plenty of wonders to discover. But many thorns lay ahead in such adventures. But it's in these challenges, that we understand Life's beauty and value in the Living, and how precious it is to preserve and take care.
Earlier before Solais' growth, some remember the catastrophic year of Ragnarok, where for a whole year Meranthe was covered in darkness due to eruption of Vdalion's volcano. A year, marked by anguish and despair. But from the ashes, Life was reborn, and through the collective prayers of Hope and Life, we stood tall. We stood strong and united. And Solais, is the embodiment of these prayers. A living symbol of our will to Live and remain Hopefull.
A new generation is born since these events. We pray, for them, for their safety, for their growing success, as we pray for the bravery, courage, patience and kindness of the older generation to share their knowledge and virtues." - Sv[Redacted]
Additional candles are raise, rotating about Solais as it exudes incense. The Lifestream could be felt from the sheer strength of its pulses.
Afterwards, Re[Redacted] said forth a prayer in an unknown language.
It went on, ceremonies and exclamations, blessings of Solais rained down on me as cosmic dust, freeing me from pain, both known and not. My hand would die from writing it all. Nonetheless, it conveyed one message, of the celebration of life and hope and it's continuation.
Slight interruption, it is interrupted (though subtly ignored) by presence of those from the Enclave. Bad blood as a result from wars.
Alacritas - 2080 AC
I have missed the major portion of the sermon, not making it in time for the welcome and prayers. A sermon of struggles, a prayer to surpass them, and the assurance of being loved.
But it's not as if I missed it in it's entirety.
The tenets of Lady Alacritas:
Protect and save Life
Respect Life
Grow Life
and an Unconditional Love and Kindess to neighbors
The initiation speach:
"Lady Alacritas, Silver Constant of Life,
Those in front of us wish to be wrapped in your kind embrace, and learn under your name your tenets on Life.
Under your name, they wish to protect Life. They wish to share your kindness and goodwill. They wish to nurture and defend the will to Live and the Hope within other souls. To act as an extension of your will and your charisma. To show the world the beauty of life and the Divines’ Creation."
"To you, Children of Alacritas.
Are you ready to embrace this journey of discovery along with the Lady Silver of Life ? To be true to your beliefs and display it without shyness? To protect the world and the Nature created, and deepen your connection to her Lady? And most importantly, are you ready to join her embrace without any remorse and regret, and doing it willingly with your true self?" - [Redacted] Priest of Alacritas.
Jiuweihu, Spirit of the Sun, Matron of the Kitsunes. Upon the creation of the Lifestream by Nyssa and Alacritas, many Lifeforms emerged. Of them, powerful elementals and spirits, some blessing humanity. Of them, Leanaus, Asena, and others.
Learning of Alacritas is to learn of life and its consequence on the universe.
Life is a universal tenet present in many other Gods, Pantheons, and Primordials. Include but not limited to Nemea, Mestra, and Caius
2 new initiates entered into the Church of Alacritas. A bud of Lotus baptizing them and a cowl symbolizing their oath as they entered.
Three orders offered: Of Healing, Of Protectors, and Of Scholars... Scholars... how interesting... I wonder if they have a library I could gander.
Of A Shepherd's Sermon 2087 AC
A faith which enshrines Lady Mortyl and Lord Caius, the Constant and Primordial of Death in order. Taking place upon the Celestial Orrery within Final Frontier, led by one Caligo Thymai Equisol and Delilah Parton.
After introductions, a prayer is offered:
Humble mother of departed souls, and kindly Father that sees Spirits home.
Accepting of all dead, we offer our thanks. Hallowed guardians of the Late, we are reverent in knowing we shall greet you in due time.
This solemn vow of acceptance of death, Shepherds are offered and pledge. Yet by the grace of Death's Lady and Lord, may it be long before we are to meet.
And when it is, at last, our time. May we be ferried among the dead. Returned to the stars and realms beyond, to see our kin once more.
A question is posed: What is the value of a single life?
The question is rhetoric, rather it is an ideal in itself. The Shepherds main goal is to aid others in the completion of their lives. To fulfill their goals, satisfy their desires, and lead them to a desirable end upon their path.
In doing so, the worth of lives increase, their death ever more so worth.
...
A life lived for the sake of others... As idealistic as it may sound, I cannot bear to agree with their lifestyle. And at the same time I cannot deny it. To find fulfilment in fulfilling the lives of others, you faithfully surrender your lives to humanity as a whole. A dangerous gamble.