DEITY: Hospitika, the Mender

Healing, Medicine, Rejuvenation, Mending, Textiles, Knitting

Pronunciations: Hospitika (HOt SPIt TIck CUt Hospitanya (HOt SPIt TONsil YOUng Rejuhvuh (REnd JUst VUlture Regeena (REnd JEAn NOne)
Domains: Healing, Medicine, Rejuvenation, Mending, Repair, Knitting, Looming, Textiles
Symbols: Two needles crossed over a heart, often with spiraling threads hanging
Beasts: Web-spinning spiders, silks worms, domesticated dogs
Plants: Cotton plant, hemp, birch trees, aloe, turmeric
Civil & Trade Roles: Healers, Textile makers (looming, knitting, weaving), Repair
Colors & Materials: White; multi-colored. multi-patterned patchwork
Primary Avatar: Gray haired man with layers of robes and white cloth wrapped around forearms
Secondary Avatar: Washerwoman, usually middle-aged, dressed as a commoner or servant, laundering cloths, or carrying buckets filled with wash.
Tertiary Avatar: Large gray-haired dog
Celestial Alignment: Good
Observation Day: Lazura (13th day of the week, rest day)

Hospitika gave to the races many gifts of healing, surgery, medicines, as well as the textiles arts of weaving, sewing, knitting, and mending and repair disciplines. His divinity teaches the values of mending, whether healing the body, mending the mind, or fixing damaged textiles or crafts. Many a believer would ask for his assistance to repair that which is broken. This is central to the ways of Hospitika.

If it can be broken, it can be mended.

You cannot heal someone who does not see their own wounds.

Across the world, he has been known by other names, such as Hospitanya, Rejuhvuh, Regeenah. His symbol of two needles crossed over a heart is usually done in white, red, and black. His most common depiction is a gray-haired man with layers of multicolored robes and brilliant white cloth wrapped around his arms and legs in diagonally crisscrossed bandings. He holds a tall staff of white birch with the white bark intact on it. Two loops, the branch splitting then rejoining for each loop, are at about two-thirds up its height. Each loop is shaped for a hand to grasp through it. He is sometimes depicted with both hands in the handhold loops, leaning heavily on it, exhausted, with a young child tugging at his robes. This is a common depiction of the Demon Ravages of an earlier age. The tale recounts an incursion of demons upon a town. They brutally killed so many before being brought down. A school full of children were cruelly slaughtered. Hospitika came to the grounds of the poor and crowded school and took from each child all their wounds. Each wound appeared on his divine form instead, bringing the children back to life. When done, he lay heavily against his staff and a child came to him, thanking him with water and bread, the only food they had.
Hospitika shows favor on those who mend, repair, heal and renew. Hospitika gave to the races the knowledge of textiles, knitting, sewing, mending, healing of the body, medicines, and surgery. Amongst his followers, orders formed and within them the devout received from him powers of divine healing.
There are several notable orders and guilds that follow the mindset of Hospitika. Like many of the gods, the clergy and believers of Hospitika play roles in society and form guild houses to care for their worker's families, guide trades, and further professions within cities. Naturally, Healer and Surgeon guilds are almost exclusively operated by the clergy of his church.
Textiles, weavers, loomers, weavers, knitters are all close to Hospitika's heart. That act of creation, building those flats of fabric and textiles are said to have been his gift. He is depicted wearing layers of loose robes and drapings, each said to be many colors or complex patterns. The undershirt and arm wrappings are always contrasted in brilliant white. Textiles can be mended, repaired from damage, and should be. Many mender shops hang a shingle of the cross needles over a white heart. The guilds for these professions are quite large, powerful, and wealthy. Clergy from the church often hold positions in these guilds. Hospitika's coffers benefit from this relationship. Such tithes help with the care of the sick and hurt.
The acolytes and clerics perform devotions in honor of him. These reflect the tenets of thought in his teachings. Clergy can be found near statues of him in the evening performing healing as the sun sets or in the early evenings. They exhaust their talents to heal before sleeping, never wasting a chance to heal.
Acts of Devotion:

• Heal a stranger without compensation
• Heal an enemy without trade
• Mend clothes to recycle to old clothing shop or charity
• Exhaust your magic after sunset for healing
• Act as a medic in a field of war
• Save the weakest, who is not seen as valuable to the cause or place
• Repair and rejuvenate an object or place that is old and rundown to give it a second life
• Secure a second chance to someone you believe will seize it, that is otherwise lost, fallen, selfish, or self-destructive
• Celebrate life and renewal with many from sunset to sunrise
• Teach textiles and/or clothing knitting, mending, stitching
• Teach wound care, medicines (herbs), splints and recuperation
• Looming cloth or rug
• Open your home to provide hospice to another in need (in desert culture this is especially important to strangers and travelers)

The healers of this church often do well financially. Many will pay to gain access to their magics and do. Even if not paid in gold, the gifts and amenities offered to them as thanks for services typically keep them in great comfort. The wealth and comfort of their clergy are usually obvious. Such advantages of position can quickly become politically and financially influencing.
Hospitika's Healers: Clerics and Paladins of Hospitika add +1 to each die rolled when determining the amount of hp healed for the following spells: Cure Wounds (1), Healing Word (1), Prayer of Healing (2), Mass Healing Word (3), Mass Cure Wounds (5), Heal (6), Regenerate (7), Mass Heal (9)


Holy Orders of Hospitika: The White Hearts of Pacillion Vorkahda, The