Mirrah, The Reflectionist – Goddess of Destiny

Fractured Futures

The people of the Drakonvelt think that Mirrah knows the future and can fortell any mans destiny. They hold that those who are her chosen are gifted with this insight, and should be revered. Many hope, desperately to be chosen for such an honor.
In this perception, they are right and they are wrong.
Mirrah actually can see the future - all the possible futures. The future is a mirror, a reflection of what is now. The farther away from the now one looks, the more cracks appear in the mirror - the more it shatters and splinters into possibilities and causality chains - the more distorted the overall image becomes. Each fragment of glass reflects a slightly different variation on the same image. To see them all at once is to see endless possibility and permutations. To see them all at once, is to seem mad to those who stand beside you.
The good bits.
The bad bits.
The truly evil bits.
To see all the possible futures is to know exactly what any given person is capable of, what any given choice can do to the world.
But Mirrah does not see THE future. From the half million possible permutations, she can never be sure which exact one is the right one. That burden, the burden of knowing without chance to change, falls on Gideon The Old. His is the burden of inevitiability. Mirrah's is the burden of trying to shepard her people away from the most horrific paths. She has grown very adept at understanding fate and its reflections, and while she cannot divine which is the true future, she can see the direction in which it lies and the form it takes.
It has been suggested by some clergy, that Mirrah is blind to the changes that Stalain The Dark makes to the world, as a way to explain how great changes have happened that the Clergy of the Mirror have not foreseen. She can see his minions actions, but not those of the manipulator and despoiler himself.

Clergy

When one is called to Mirrah, one is said to receive a vision of one possible future - a sliver of Mirrah's understanding. It becomes a lifes mission of that clergy member to do all they can to see that vision come to pass.
There are two kinds of clergy of Mirrah - The Mendicant and the Temple Keepers. Mendicants wander from town to town, village to village, offering prophecy and wisdom. The Temple Keepers focus on the stationary temples and provide service to the cities and towns that can support them.
A great frustration of both orders, are the charlatans who seek to subvert the truth faith and use its trappings for profit.
The ordained clergy of Mirrah are drawn from men and women alike who have reached their age of majority. Lay service to a temple may start when an adolescents reaches their 14th year - or their cultural equivalent thereof. Mendicants are not allowed to take students or acolytes who have not reached majority.
Mirrah's clergy have a pair of very specific purposes in the Greenwold.
1: They are to be activists and agitators for change, by interpreting her visions and moving people in the right direction. 2: They are to be caregivers and defenders of The Mirandi.

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Members of this faith typically wear belts of silk with small mirrors sewn in.

Tenets of Faith

*Respect the true seers and oracles *Reveal and revile false prophets *Stand not in the way of true destiny *Allow no harm to come to the Mirandi