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 them selfs, but she escaped to the nether, but her wounds ended up being fatal she died & became a spirit & in the prosses assended to a true godhood with her remains becoming the creatures of the overworld in the prossess of rising to the golden skies.

Traditions of the Children
Helping the sinless is the most importand tenent of the followers.

On the 14 day of every month is the celebrations of the maidens assencion 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 (usualy by swimming in lava) to cleanse their body of sins.

Showing or describing the maiden as beautiful or naturaly talented is sinfull as she became a goddess through suffering. For this reason her depictions are usualy very alien/eldrich.

The tradition for marriage is for the couple to cut them self & bleed into a bowl then let their closest friends drink it usualy 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 accending past it to higher existance.

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 increadibly rare, with only a handfull of cases & of those case only a few were ever recordet 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"