Chosen of Hufnir
In the Lamaran religion, Hufnir is considered the goddess of several things, including being considered a goddess of erectile dysfunction because her lesbian crush got with a man and now Lamarans think that if a man has erectile dysfunction it's because there's a woman who's in love with his wife, but her primary thing is war - specifically the fighting part she's not got much to do with strategies that's more her twin brother Blunir's department.
The Hufnir tournament is a 256 person tournament and the winner is given this title.
Requirements
Winning Hufnir's Tournament. Even then the Bishop of Hufnir or Head of Faith can refuse you the title.
It can be given to soldiers who show themselves to be absolute monsters in battle. It's generally acknowledged that someone needs to have personally killed or otherwise defeated at least 100 enemy combatants.
Appointment
The role is assigned by the Bishop of Hufnir and the Head of Faith. They have to agree unanimously that the person is legitimately a madlad/madlass/madpeep.
Duties
Show up to some Hufnir-related rituals and festivities. Also be fine with your toes being cut from your corpse and cremated in a temple of Hufnir so that if they were mistaken in giving you the role Hufnir can keep your toes in the afterlife, but if she believes it was given rightly she'll give the toes back.
Benefits
Those rituals include lots of free food and free stuff.
Accoutrements & Equipment
The free stuff includes some weapons, otherwise no specific equipment needed.
Grounds for Removal/Dismissal
Death.
History
Started being a thing during a short golden age of peace in Lamara when the Krysa Empire only controlled a third of the continent. There was a bit of a Cold War type deal going on where all other nations were allied against the Krysa but neither side wanted to make the first move.
Hufnir's Tournament was a way to demonstrate the power of the Krysa Empire, especially since competitors from the rest of Lamara were welcome to compete and get wrecked by trained-from-birth Krysa - Crystal Magic Family.
The right to refuse to give the title was established when a Head of Faith did so on the basis of the winning competitor being a Hami immigrant. Later, a Bishop of Hufnir would refuse to give the title because they believed the winning competitor had cheated.
They can refuse to give the title simply by not partaking in the ritual of flinging chicken's blood at the winner.
The title was used to commemorate major war heroes of the Krysa Empire, including posthumously, when this peace ended.
Once all of Lamara was under Krysa rule, they kept going with the tournament to flex on the vassals. Eventually vassals started winning fairly often as well but by this point they'd been fully integrated into the Krysa Empire - now simply called Lamara - and it became more about gambling and prestige than terrifying the vassals...
although it never lost the purpose of terrifying the commoners by letting them see non-magic slaves and criminals get massacred by magic representatives of every major noble house.
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Form of Address
"Hufnir's Chosen, [Person's name and other titles]"
Equates to
None. If there were any equivalent title to describe someone so ridiculously badass then Hufnir's Chosen wouldn't mean much.
Source of Authority
Being Hufnir's chosen doesn't give you authority, just respect and free stuff... the free stuff is pretty good though.
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I- I always seem at a loss for words after reading your articles, trying very hard to process the sheer amount of curveballs your through in your writing. The goddess of erectile dysfunction? Respect and Free stuff? terrifying commoners through slaves slaughtering each other? yet somehow I enjoy reading it. so...Good job :)
Thanks bruh. That said I think I wrote it a little off cos this lacked some specific details about how the tournament is done since the focus was on the title. The slaves aren't usually killing each other, they're getting killed by those with magic abilities participating in the tournament.
Before the actual contestants fight each other, they're each put up against 5 slaves. The slaves are allowed to select their equipment from a uh a selection y'know? If they kill all 5 of the slaves (criminals mentioned as becoming a slave is a common punishment for criminals, and those who became slaves by committing crimes are more likely to be put forward for this) then they're allowed into the tournament.Disabling the slaves so that they can't fight back has to be followed up with killing them or the contestant isn't allowed into the tournament. The deaths of the slaves are considered a sacrifice to Hufnir so not killing them is kinda bad joojoo.
The slaves pretty much always get massacred and the commoners watching get the point of "okay these magic people, who are all in the nobility and royalty, are not to be fucked with, therefore no fucking with the nobility or royalty."
The expectations on magic members of nobility are very different to those on the normal humans that make up most of the nobility, specifically that they've gotta be ass-whooping machines and regularly use their abilities, plus the contestants in this competition are already the most ass-whooping magic peeps in all of Lamara, having to be selected from a far larger pool by priests of Hufnir by demonstrating their ass-whooping abilities on dummies, rocks and other inanimate objects (I mean, an applicant could kill one of their/their parents'/whoever they live under the roof of's slaves or animals but that'd be stupidly wasteful and they're already wasting enough human and animal life on sacrifices as it is) to be in the top 256 in all Lamara.