Children of the Black Rain Maiden

Maiden of the Black Rain
The Children are lead by their goddess the being only know as the Maiden of the Black Rain.

Netherite is said to be her blood that she spilled when other gods tried to kill her to harvest it for themselves. She escaped to the nether, but her wounds ended up being fatal she died & became a spirit, in the process ascending to a true godhood with her remains becoming the creatures of the overworld, in the process of rising to the golden skies.

She has lived in the golden skies for milleniums & seen many gods die & be born having forgiven their actions a long time ago & helping them, but what has interested the Maiden is that the humans below the gods had grown & changed more than then the gods thay prayed to, so she decided to start watching & helping these humans over the gods.

Traditions of the Children
Helping the sinless is the most important tenet of the followers.

On the 14 day of every month is the celebrations of the maidens ascension to higher godhood where its tradition to give gifts to the Maiden & other followers.

The followers are required to once in their life to inflict pain to their whole body (usually by swimming in lava) to cleanse their body of sins.

Showing or describing the maiden as beautiful or naturally talented is sinful as she became a goddess through suffering. For this reason her depictions are usually very alien or eldritch.

The tradition for marriage is for the couple to cut them self & bleed into a bowl then let their closest friends drink it, usually in the front of a statue of the Maiden.

The Tale of a Tear
The Tale of a Tear is the holy book of the Children of the Black Rain Maiden that tells the story of the maiden finding herself in heaven & her ascending past it to higher existence.

The book was lost around 200 years ago & with it the religion has started slowly to wither away with only its last members hoping to find the book & restore the religion.

Contact with the Maiden
Contact with the Maiden is incredibly rare, with only a handful of cases & of those cases even fewer were ever recorded down.

List of recorded cases
When Elderaata was 13, he fell of his parents ship during a strong storm & in that moment the Maiden spoke to him & told him a prophecy "You shall die by your choise, not from an accident, not from betrayal. You shall live until my message lives again, until it rises".