"Deep and white, stone and bright, don't bring our father back to life." - Children's rhyme born after the great cave disasters and the horrors that followed
Basic Information
The Agarnals are the great pantheon of the Dwarvern peoples. The structure of the dwarvern pantheon is one without concrete deities or gods, it is instead a great mycelite web of holy power that spreads throughout all of the lands where dwarves reside.
The Hyphae is the grand web of divine fractals that the dwarves believe roots its way into all beings. When a dwarf dies, its soul is absorbed by this web and forms another fractal in the branch of which that dwarf's life is devoted most.
The named beings that dwarves idolise when worshipping the Agarnal Hyphae are not gods, but ancestors and legends, passed down through strictly oral tradition. There are no holy books nor iconography save the snaking fractals that cover the homes of those most devout.
Due to the Agarnal's reverence of death, the topic of revivification is contreversial at best and at worst loathed, along with the rest of necromancy. It is seen as the highest blesphemy and a supreme dishonor to the soul that was revived.
Symbolism
Mycelium is deemed holy by dwarvern priests and so most holy cloth is lined in the branching network of the hyphae they worship, this is the only permitted iconography of The Agarnals, for depicting ancestors absorbed by the hypae is strictly forbidden.
Images of those that have passed are ritually destroyed at their death ceremony, to mark their passing into the hyphae.
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