Cajak Moonharrow
The Howling King, Lord Of The Ravening Hunger, Bloodmaw, The Moon-Rage, Master Of The Bloody Change, Bearer Of The Cannibal Banner, Feverjaws, & Manbane
NATURE RED, IN TOOTH & CLAW
The HOWLING KING seeks the surrender of all those who think and feel to shuck off the bindings that hold It back. CAJAK knows that in each of us, buried and starved and mistreated, is the Beast that kept our species alive for so long—that animal instinct to survive regardless of the cost. The FANGED MOON looks out on the cities and farms that the Named People have enslaved themselves to and sees that each day bleeds the Beast more. CAJAK honors the primal way, the simple life—a life of pounding heart, drooling jaws, relentless chase and the bloody beauty of the kill. To hunt and be hunted so that one may know themselves to be either predator or prey—as Nature intended on that first dawn of Creation.
That is what CAJAK MOONHARROW seeks to return to the Named Peoples—the Beast That Drives Us.
Cults & Worship
Though the Beastlord’s cults and covens are nearly always prohibited within any sensible society, He is always in the hearts of those who walk the forest paths, sniff the air before opening eyes and those who make their living in blood and meat. While the HOWLING KING’s worship, invariably involving the meat of the Named and the embrace of the Lycanthrope, is verboten in broad daylight and well-lit streets—the signs and shrines follow Man wherever he may go.
A hunter who hangs trophies and offerings of flesh from a dead tree, a pondside shrine where once the skinning and butchering was completed so that hands could be washed and faces rinsed before returning to civilization. On dark paths, one can find twisted bones—wrapped with knotted gut or sinew—ornaments and offerings to the HOWLING KING where the Bright Church proclaims that none would seek him out—the hunters always do. .
Divine Domains
Major
All, Animal, Combat, Courage, Plant
Minor
Charm, Divination, Elemental (Earth), Healing/Necromancy, Protection
Tenets of Faith
Basic Tenets
BE NOT PREY | It is the predator’s role to dominate, to terrorize, to prey upon all lesser creatures and, in the ecstasy of the Howling King’s blessings, all are lesser. To kill is to know one’s worth. Challenges must be met and consumed, the pack has but one master, and the Lord Of The Change will only look upon those most worthy—those dark souls that take all they want from the world of Man and defecate on the path of Civilization. To slay is to breathe, to chase is to dream and to consume is the Reason. Be Not Prey.
HUNT WITH JOY AND NOT NEED |The Hunt is slaughter and this World must be consumed. To honor the Howling King one must sense, pursue and bring down sentient prey and give thanks to the Bloodmoon King. A worshipper hunts for the glory of the kill, the taste of coppery blood on the back of their throat and the tearing of flesh even when there is no need for the meat. Gnaw on the face and liver, shred the flesh and leave the carcass behind so that loved ones will know that the Hunt was for the glory of the Kill.
FREE THE BEAST |To howl at the Treacherous Pale Lady, to lay bare one’s soul to the primality and to strip all scent and sign of Civilization from us—this is how we meet our King. Honor those who have brought forth their Beast, succor the Silver-Slain, know that mindless slaughter is the natural state of being and pursue any path that promises freedom for your Beast. Moan at the bite, smile at the wide face of the Moon, welcome the Change.
High Tenets
It is said that those who follow the RAVENING LORD are honored by sharing the Greater Mysteries Of Meat & Hunt with him. Whispers and horror stories of cannibal feasts, blood bacchanalia, blood-soaked orgies with the changing bodies of Lycanthropes. It is unknown if this is propaganda or truth.Holidays
Adherents of the Howling King embrace the roll of the seasons with ritual openings at both Solstices and both Equinoxes. Each season brings a new aspect of the Beast and Nature’s Law to the fore. They celebrate Spring as Life bursts forth to be consumed, Summer for the long hunts and ample prey, Autumn for the urgency it brings forth in all living things to prepare to defeat cold death again. But Winter is the greatest of all, the Longest Night and the Time of Hunger—when desperation and starvation drive all notions of order and civilization from a being leaving behind only the Beast that will do what must be done to survive.
Regular days to honor CAJAK are the Full Moons, those nights when comets and stars die in the darkness and fall to the mundus to remind us that immortality is a lie—our mortality is that which drives us to persevere and let nothing stand in the way of our survival.
Divine Goals & Aspirations
Survival of the fittest and winnowing of the weak are CAJAK’s end goal—whether it is in a herd of elk or a city of Named Peoples. A brutal, bloody death has great meaning and even more if it comes at the end of a strenuous pursuit. The hunt is the fulcrum of life and death, and the focus point of life is the challenge between the hunter and the prey, the judgment of who may live or die.
The HOWLING KING'S faithful indulge in hunting as often as possible and strive to route the hunt to make it as dangerous as possible, so that its finale (the killing of the quarry) takes place in a settled area. Common folk who do not appreciate having desperate leucrotta, wolves, displacer beasts, and the like chased through town tend to hate and fear the baying of mad hounds and the guttural cheers of the hunt—which is the whole idea: Those who do not venerate the LORD OF BLOODY FEASTS should respect him out of fear.
Of all those who walk the wilds, the Druid is the enemy of the HOWLING KING. The first sign that a Bloodfang coven or cult has taken root in the area is the slaughter of local druids. Only the Black Druids, those who take what they will of Nature if She fails to defend herself, who walk the path of the Beastlord.The natural Balance that druids promote and maintain is seen as the true foe of all who seek to experience the Beast and the blood—who revel in the Hunt. They believe it interferes with the rightful triumph of the strong over the weak.
And woe be to those who stem the growth and health of the Wild. Land expansions, construction projects--all of these things are an affront to Nature's plan and those who implement such actions will likely find themselves hunted, skinned and adorning the floor as a new fireplace rug.
Patron of Predators, Red-Handed Hunters, Lycanthropes, Carnivores Who Reason, Bloodlust, the Dark Wild & Cannibalism
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