Navikran

Navikran (a.k.a. The White Vulture, Scion of Vultures)

Born of Winter and Spring, Navikran is the deity most often associated with the cyclical nature of life and death. Cycles are seen everywhere – from the washing tides to the burning embers of a bonfire, all the way to the lives of creatures upon the world. Navikran is, in certain cultures, seen as a guide to death, metaphorically consuming the body of the deceased to allow their spirit to be free once Navikran migrates to the equivalent of Heavens or Hells. The followers of Navikran are gravediggers, doctors and priests who work at burial sites. These churches often work towards allowing poorer families to access funeral rites for their deceased, or giving said rites to those without families. In the eyes of Navikran's clergy, cycles are meant to be maintained as they grant cohesion to the world – hence why Navikran clergymen strive to destroy undead, as they are a perversion of the cycle of life and death. To heal wounds is not a denial of death as is immortality or undeath, it is merely postponing said death – for the White Vulture will have his due when the time comes.

Divine Domains

Life, Death, Grave

Divine Symbols & Sigils

Symbol is often a skeletal wing of sorts, or a bird's cranium.

Tenets of Faith

Hamrethain is the ending prayer of Navikran's clergy. It comes from Hindi "Ham ret hain," meaning "We are sand," in English.

Holidays

The Navikran holiday, also known as 'Day of the Departed', is set on the Winter solstice which marks the passage of Winter to Spring, symbolically representing the departure of the souls of the dead to their afterlives. During this day, it is traditional to think of family and ancestry, and honor those who came before us, to tell tales of the forefathers and mothers, and to visit the graves of those passed so as to eat with them.