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The Feast of Zanunder

Many of the customs that were linked to The Church of Nemiisae were lost when the city fell. Very few were remembered by those survivors who fled Menor'cress, fewer still endured to be undertaken by the later cults that would attempt to restoke the fires of belief in the goddess. Despite this, one tradition managed to survive clearly enough in the hearts of those refugees and is still celebrated in their households to this day. That is the feast of Zanunder, while the tradition celebrated today having become an annual event is remarkably very different to what existed within The Church of Nemiisae, the dishes prepared are more or less correct.   Within the church, when a new high priest has undergone and completed their vigorous training, observing the tenants and personally undergone the lessons of Nemiisae. Completing this ordeal was said to prove that the high priest is indeed the reincarnation of Nemiisaes husband Zanunder, therefore proving he is official ready to take up his mantle of office and assume the name Zanunder. This ascendance to office would be marked by a great banquet, which would serve the exact feast that was served to the divine Nemiisae before she would make her way to ascend the Tower of Neyan'catual. Each of the dished were presumed to have been the prophets favourite foods, on this day the entire of the Menor'cress and it's clergy would recreate the delicacies and participate in the feast of ?? To celebrate the ascension of the new high priest.  

Perversion of the truth.

While many households of the surviving refugees can remember the feasts traditional dishes in great detail, much surrounding this simple tradition has been perverted by propaganda spread by The Temple of the Seven Signs. In their demonisation of The Church of Nemiisae, the priesthood of Aulreth claimed that the clergy of Menor'cress practiced ritualistic cannibalism on Dral'azie faithful to the abyss mother.   This belief is still held true to this day, and while Nemiisae has been reaccepted and recognised once more into the Temple of an Archon of the faith, her cults are still branded with this stigma. In a perverse twist of faith, many of these fledgling cults to Nemiisae have come to accept this propaganda as fact, frequently participating in ritualistic cannibalism they term the feast of Zanunder As homage to Nemiisae.

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