The Vices and Virtues

Virtues Virtue is the most pure path to strengthening the soul, acting with kindness and temperance. Showing patience and restraint, holding a gentle hand to all friends and enemies. These are the things which breathe holy inspiration into the hearts of men, and what all faithful should strive towards.
The key aspects of Virtue are as follows;

• Honesty:

One’s word reflects unto the soul. If one does not blemish their speech with lies and omissions, one’s soul is ever stronger.

• Patience:

Tempering one’s passions in the face of temptation and tedium reflects well upon the soul. Showing restraint in times of turmoil and understanding your brothers and sisters is key.

• Grace:

It is of paramount importance to be thankful for every gift received. Selvas is to thank for every day of life, for the beauty of the land, for the music of songs and many other things. Thank him for these gifts, and be thankful of all else, even if it is disguised in tragedy.

• Justice:

The Land Selvas has bestowed upon us, unblemished and unfaulted, is often set upon by evil. Men who care not for the balance of life and death, men who are unrepentant and act with arrogance. Correct these men with a gentle heart and firm hand.

• Vices

Acts and behaviors which weaken the intregrity of the soul and weigh it down with Burden. All men cannot be epected to avoid Vice, but must overcome it if they wish to lift up their soul and live beyond the Day of Reckoning.
The most prominent vices are as follows;

• Deceit:

Liars and cheats are considered to be the worst offenders of all those who commit to Vice. Even if the cause is just or it is simply an omission of the truth, all Deceit weighs down the soul with Burden.

• Gluttony:

It is not a great sin to enjoy the great gifts that Selvas has bestowed upon us. However, overindulgence in such things bears a great weight on the soul. Those who are greedy are not looked upon kindly by Selvas, charity oft demanded of the rich to stave such a Vice away.

• Violence:

Violence, no matter the sort, brings Burden down upon the soul. However, bloodshed for the sake of justice is looked upon with great respect, and seen as taking on the Burden of others; a self sacrifice.

• Theft:

All creatures should be able to enjoy the gifts of Selvas, but that does not give men the right to take from others in order to satiate their own desires. Stealing anything, even if it serves a noble goal, weighs heavily on the soul.
The Profane Among all evils that set about the faithful, few are as feared or as hated as the Abomination or the Profane. It is the foul forces that would seek to corrupt the gifts of Selvas, the perfect land bestowed upon mortals, that are seen as the most vile. A common inference of the Profane is the Necromancer and his undead creations, ones who toy with death and seek to overcome it. Those foul warlocks meddle with the powers of Ankouan, and only a quick death will free them of their Vice.
Like the Necromancers, Psychomancers are also meddlers and defilers. They toy with the domain of the other God Menthava, and step passed bounds they have no right to breach. They are the worst sort of thieves and liars, and are heavily shunned by the faith.