Dark Moon Order
According to the Dark Moon Order, all sentient life stems from the war of the stars. Now Earth is fraught with war and hardship. While the Sky is now warzone and living hell.
Structure
Formally, High Priestess Marci is the leader of the Dark Moon Order. She and the other Moon Priestess assist in the running of the community and festivals and training the order to use their love to fight for Selemene. However, Selemene is a loving and devoted goddess. Thus, she often aid in the running of her Dark Moon Order Commune. It is she who oversees the choosing of a new High Priestess and she also walks among the people providing advice, aid, love, and support. Every knows and loves Selemene. She is at the heart of every solution in spirit if not body and mind.
Public Agenda
The goals of the Dark Moon Order are as follows:
- Spread Selemene message and love across the world
- To rid the world of creeps and magic and sin
- To ascend to the heavens and make it a paradise once more
- To eliminate the day and have an endless peaceful night
Demography and Population
Duel of Accretion
DMO works on a ranking system because the strength of body is a strength of will/love in DMO. So people from different phases and ranks within a phase compete. If the lower rank challenges the upper rank, the upper rank can refuse (and lose their position) or accept the challenge. The fights are generally done to first blood or first to be unable to continue...the challenged sets the severity. If the lower rank doesn't accept terms their rank decreases.
The acolytes are also star children and if the competition wasn't skewed in favor of priestess, then the ultimate goal would be ascend priestess on the blood moon(lunar eclipse) and high priestess on a solar eclipse.
Cosmological Views
Long ago in the dark times, Selemene lived in the sky with her children the stars. They all lived in harmony in endless night, until one of Selemene star wished to be more. He believed himself equal to Selemene and wanted her as his wife. He convinced some of his siblings to follow him using false promises of passion and change. Thus, he led a group of stars into rebellion and war broke out. In the chaos, Selemene was hurt trying to protect her children from each other. She fell to earth injured, bleeding, and alone. Her essence was so potent and powerful that spread out into the world and created The Elements. Meanwhile, her children continued to fight. Their battle wages and as stars died Solares absorbed their power and then tossed down onto the earth. From their broken remains, Humans and Fae were born. Solares then used his powers to create the first day, dying the sky blue to hide what remained with his family. His reign is a fraught one. Each night, Selemene children launch an attack to try bring back the endless night. And each day Solares claims victory yet again. His cause is helped by the chaos he has created on earth. The good fragments of his siblings now have weaken transient bodies that cannot appreciate the beauty of the night nor the peace of darkness. They lived with physical manifestations of their sin fueled by the power of Selemene's grief and pain in the form of magical creatures and Solares's Dragons. Nowadays, Humans flail about, not realizing that their salvation lies in the Nightsilver Woods. Selemene though weakened, does her best to heal her children and help them cleanse and reclaim themselves. Through her love, they transcend their Human bodies. The process is slow and Selemene must fight both on earth and in the sky, but someday, when the Nightsilver woods spread through the land and the last creature cleansed and has ascended, the night will return and peace will reign.
Granted Divine Powers
All those in the dark moon order are cold resistant and able to see in the dark. Those of the most devote faith become Moon Priestesses. And of those, the one with the strongest love of all becomes High Priestess or priest depending on the cycle. If high priestess shows themselves ready and worthy they will become Moon Fae and provide support in Selemene's in the battle in the sky against Solares. Some day when the battle over, the Moon Fae will become stars once more.
Controversies
Though Dark Moon Order is devoted. Many Sun people have questions about their religion like:May Selemene's loving light save your suffering soul, broken body, and misguided mind
Type
Religious, Organised Religion
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Alternative Names
Moon Children
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Government System
Theocracy
Economic System
Barter system
Divines
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