The New Dawn's religion is part of the movements core. While characters that join the guild doesn't have to convert upon joining the House, they are expected to respect the faith and should they have their own pagan believes then they exercise them in private. As faith in the siblings is a step in the path of balance it is also required to reach higher ranks in the New Dawn, you will never find a Balah that have not been enlightened by the siblings.
The Siblings
Long ago when time was still young and gods had yet to be born the energies and matter of the universe was still unbound and raged in an endles whirlstorm throughout the univese. Time grew older and the elements began to divide, slowly they formed into separate entities, Dyma came first, she the bright of energy. Damak came second, he the dark of matter. The siblings together created the universe as we know it now, from his body Damak made worlds and Dyma created suns and stars from hers
Damak
Representations: Earth, blood, darkess
The brother was born second and so it is that Dyma must always be before Damak can. Damak is the earth, the trees and the animals. Damak is your own flesh and your brothers and sisters flesh. Damak takes different shapes but they are all the brother and so no matter the form they are the same. Those who have faith in Damak realize that all things you can touch in this world are equal and no man or beast is more than the other, the color of its skin, whether it is male or female is only the form Damak has chosen for his creation.
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Rituals
Guidance from the brother is sought when one must overcome a challenge that requires the strength of ones own body. His blessing is believed to help keep the faithful alive on a battlefield as well as give them the will to carry on labor when all stores of energy seems exhausted. Those who feel a deep love for Damak think that they can read his word in bowls of blood and may leave decision making or even telling what lies ahead by sprinkling the precious crimson on charts that will tell the brothers will. But the soil also has much to speak, the very essence of Damak crumbles weakly but in no way can it be completely destroyed and in the cracks of mud form messages for those who wish to read sometimes guiding those who have been led astray by giving signs to follow.
Dyma
Representations: Fire, wind, light.
Dyma holds many of the same traditions as Damak, the clans has a strong and experienced force of fighters and healers.
The Book of Visions
As with nearly all religous people the New Dawn has their own religous texts. The book of visions is one of these and within it's pages are documented by those whom have recieved them, the visions given by the gods unto their creation that they may understand their will. The book is divided into chapters of whom recieved the visions and then sections of visions that belong together and lastly the visions themselves are numbered.
Dathanar Rashad Mahdi of the New Dawn
Rediscover
1 The first words said unto me by the sister were
"You are not chosen." And next I heard the
brother "the truth is within our creation but has
been lost since aeons past."
2 The following night this same dream occured to
me, I saw before me a fire but not one that
devoured but one that only spread light and
warmth into the dark that enveloped it. "I was
born first" spoke her voice.
3. I spoke with my wife and she took me to the
halls of the serpent, but I could not listen to
their rites for the stones of the chamber itself
spoke much louder. "As your body is made from
mine so is that of your brother and your food."
4. Days passed and I begun to think I had lost
what was found. Yet felt it my duty to write
down the words that still rung in me.
Month of Signs
1 "A man is not a man that does not also reco-
gnize his fellow." his voice I rejoiced to hear
again as my feet let me wander past the
beggars of Khemi whom I had become incre-
asingly efficient to evade as they reached out
for me but I spread my gold around them until
my pockets were empty.
2. The following day I found myself sitting infront
of the scalse I kept upon my desk when it
seemed one bowl became full and the balance
between the two were disturbed. "A clear mind
is a pure mind is a good mind." It was the first
time in some time that I heard her voice.
3. I begun reading the book that governed my
homeland and by which rules I obeyed. Yet
I could not for the ink would no longer fasten
to the parchment and stained my shirt. I was
about to tell my servant an excuse as he disc-
overed it but found my lips speaking truth
instead.
4. A week passed and yet another exorcism which
I had feared from the servants word, had not
befallen me as mine had not passed on from him
as would usually happen.
5. I awoke and my hands grasped quill and ink to
write the three words which cfirst came into my
mind "Loyalty, Obedience, Balance."
6. A strange man caught me as I stumbled over
steps walking down the street, I thanked him
most kindly has he had kept me out of the way
of a cobra resting in the dust. I came home to
find my scales had returned to normal.
The Dawning
1. I ventured into the desert with my teacher
when suddenly and without warning a
sandstorm came upon us and I thought
that this day would be the end of mine
yet his gnarled old fingers gripped mine
and led me to shelter inside a cave where
we meditated until it passed outside.
2. The storms reached my home and I was
trapped indoors with nothing but thinking
to do and I found again the parchment I
had written on months before. I added
"with experience the old hand can lead the
young that it may become old and lead in
turn."
3. I remembered my servants gesture of
loyalty and stopped his punishment for having
broken a vase in turn. I felt great srenity in
this deed and wrote on the parchment which
I now hid under my pillow "those with whom
you live you must face everyday, what occurs
today will sometimes affect tomorrow."
4. "One truth is more important than all." How I
wished that she would tell me which, I begged
again and again and she would not speak.
5. I spent a month in silence and only drank water
but let no food touch my lips not to disturb my
thoughts. Then I found it when my teacher visited
me and inquired to what I was doing. "You can only
know with certainty what you have found yourself
to be true." I said unto him and he sat down to join
me in my fast and find his answer.
6. I shared what I had written and bethrodded even
what I had not put on parchment with my teacher
when he had fasted for as long as I had. He called
me a liar.
