Sworn beneath the old gods (and new).
Carried like iron under the cloak.
Faith · 2025-07-01
Ancestor practice gets awkward when the dead do not all belong in the same story. The record may be neat. Names, dates, marriages, children, places, maybe a grave location if the paperwork held. Then the religion starts asking questions the record cannot answer. [more]
Faith · 2023-01-24
The dead are easy to abuse because they cannot interrupt. That may be the first rule of ancestor work worth remembering. The living can quote them, polish them, recruit them, soften them, sharpen them, and arrange them around whatever argument needs an old face behind it. [more]
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