Clan of Black Banfaet

'''“We are not above our primal ancestors. We are not above satiating our inner animal spirit. It guides us all. It leads us to true spiritual victory.”'''

-Banfaet, God of death and resurrection

The Clan of Black Banfaet is a sect of Solism, originating out of Cyrilla, a province of the Zamots Union. It's revival began a new generation of dark and secret practices for the Druids of Sol.

Mythos:

Sol declared that the great apocalypse was caused by greed. Sol declared the Venerii, the original creators, to be enemies of the Gods. The Venerii, once a rich and proud race of beings, had lost their roots to time. One God, however, never forgot the old and true ways of the creatures of chaos. One God committed himself to ensuring the primal ways of being were kept alive.

The clan of Banfaet believe that he, the god of death and resurrection, is responsible for allowing the flow of spirit to run through all of nature, as the dead spirits of the Venerii are kept alive in his plane. Their souls were still sentient in the afterlife, and Banfaet took care to keep their true forms kept intact in the ethereal. In exchange, they granted use of their spirit in a much more raw and untamed form than Sol was given. The dynamic of these two forms of spirit created night and day. The day was where the imprisoned forms of spirit that Sol had used for creation did their work. The night was where the raw, untamed forms of spirit ran through the land, to do the work seen as too unsightly for the God of light and order. Sol allowed this, so long as he did not have to look at the abominations he once called his kin again.

Banfaet saw the power that ran through the dark, and knew that this agreement was never truly going to last. He would watch as more and more creatures of the night were wiped off the face of the earth once they had attracted the attention of Sol. Banfaet knew that if balance were to be kept in the world, he must oppose Sol's desire for order at every turn. There must never be complete peace, lest all mankind run itself into stagnation. He began to openly oppose Sol, and declared himself autonomous from his rule.

Lafier, The goddess of trickery, agriculture, and the wild hunt, agreed that nature must be kept in balance at all costs. She saw Banafaet’s bold opposition and joined him as his wife. The brutality of nature must not be eradicated by this so called “order”. As such she ascended as the Goddess of chaos, and the unity of Sol’s companions would never be the same.

The Clan of Black Banfaet has a long history, and its true origins are unknown to most historians. For thousands of years, the clan has been seen in writings by High Druids as opposition to nearly every order, across every continent. The Clan has been shown to be rather uncompromising in some of its positions, believing the balance of nature must be maintained. If a great peace were ever to be achieved, it would bring about only stagnation, and destroy all of Mortal kind.

The Clans Principles:

Although much of the clans culture, beliefs, and practices are secret, some archeologists have managed to dig up tombs outlying what one could assume to be the principles of the sect, or at the very least, the principles of the clans hundreds of years ago. They are as follows:


 * 1) To kill is to live. To kill is to be part of the natural cycle of life. Every animal is a part of this cycle, and mortals are not an exception. All meat is sacred, to hunt and to kill is to worship Banfaet and Lafier.
 * 2) The only Magick worth knowing is Black Magick. Black Magick is the use of ethereal powers to empower one’s own soul, and to obtain one’s own will, by any means necessary. Only mortals can access this power, so it is the job of the mortal to master it. Any white magick, or nature magick, except in the context of using it to further one’s own dark magick, is heretical.
 * 3) The land must not be oversettled, and the spread of the wild and the jungle should be done to keep mortals in line with their true selves.
 * 4) It does not matter what the cause, so long as there is a cause. A rebel of any sort is a child of Banfaet. Even if the clan itself is not going to participate in a rebellion, they must offer sanctuary or supplies for rebels in need.
 * 5) Death is sacred, the monstrous is beautiful.
 * 6) Vice is the driving force of any mortal. To feast, to drink, to fornicate, these all worship the goddess of chaos. Morality, conservatism, are roots of order and are therefore evil.