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	===Worship===		===Worship===
			''Main Article: [[Church of the Queen Ascendant]]''

	Worship of the Queen Ascendant revolves around three major facets--		Worship of the Queen Ascendant revolves around three major facets--
	====The Priest-Bureaucracy====		====The Priest-Bureaucracy====

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	Without the ritual that bound her, the mortal frame of the Queen began to fray. The [[First Law]], long in abeyance by demonic power, now started to bind. But buoyed up by the faith and worship of a nation, the Queen saw a chance to transcend death and continue watching over her people from the realms immortal. Her apotheosis occurred on the Feast of Serpents Waiting in the year 205 AC. Surrounded by her [[handmaiden]]s and most loyal worshipers, she cheated death's embrace and flew on the wings of worship through Shadow into the [[Astral]] plane without tasting death. There she surrendered her flesh, forming a new body of astral energies and staking a claim on a demesne in [[Mara]]. Her [[Divine Rank]] is [[Ascended heroes\|Ascended Hero]].		Without the ritual that bound her, the mortal frame of the Queen began to fray. The [[First Law]], long in abeyance by demonic power, now started to bind. But buoyed up by the faith and worship of a nation, the Queen saw a chance to transcend death and continue watching over her people from the realms immortal. Her apotheosis occurred on the Feast of Serpents Waiting in the year 205 AC. Surrounded by her [[handmaiden]]s and most loyal worshipers, she cheated death's embrace and flew on the wings of worship through Shadow into the [[Astral]] plane without tasting death. There she surrendered her flesh, forming a new body of astral energies and staking a claim on a demesne in [[Mara]]. Her [[Divine Rank]] is [[Ascended heroes\|Ascended Hero]].

			=== Theology ===
			Theologically, the Queen does not demand deep careful understanding. Instead, she promotes action. Your faith is shown in your works and in sacrifice and ritual. Her demands are fairly simple--

			# Respect and honor the established hierarchy. If you are lowly, honor your betters. It is fine to seek to better yourself and to rise to higher station, but do so out of a desire to improve society, not out of spite or jealousy. If you are born to high station, treat those below you with honor and tolerance. Enforce the law, but temper it with mercy.
			# Respect and honor the priesthood as they honor the hierarchy. They are Her voices.
			# Help your neighbor. Stand with society and civilization against the untamed, against the evil. Shun the demonic and the undead.
			# Enjoy the pleasures of life, but don't let them consume you. Ascetic life is a lie--all emotions and pleasures have their place but their place is not to control the self.
			# Respectfully husband the land. Agriculture and land-owning is more honorable than manufacturing or trading. Needless destruction of the natural environment is not good.

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	====Willing Sacrifice====		====Willing Sacrifice====
	After the homily and readings from the sacred works (produced by the bureaucracy and expounded as commandments from the Queen) but before any dances that take may place come the sacrifices. Since the Ascension, these are of two forms (full blood sacrifice of an intelligent being being absolutely forbidden and carefully monitored)--		After the homily and readings from the sacred works (produced by the bureaucracy and expounded as commandments from the Queen) but before any dances that take may place come the sacrifices. Since the Ascension, these are of two forms (full blood sacrifice of an intelligent being being absolutely forbidden and carefully monitored)--
	* Animal sacrifice is the most common. A chicken, a pig, or on rare occasions something larger. The animals are drugged and ~~exanguinated~~ while alive, the blood being caught and given to the flames on the altar. Once dead, the organs (especially the heart) are removed and ritually burned. The meat is then prepared and shared among the participants.		* Animal sacrifice is the most common. A chicken, a pig, or on rare occasions something larger. The animals are drugged and exsanguinated while alive, the blood being caught and given to the flames on the altar. Once dead, the organs (especially the heart) are removed and ritually burned. The meat is then prepared and shared among the participants.
	* Token blood sacrifice. This is done only on occasions of ceremonies such as marriages, religiously-binding vows, funerals, or pledges of loyalty to a new sovereign. Those that are giving sacrifice come forth and are pricked with a sacred knife. The most common sites are the earlobes and the ball of the thumb, although some have been known to give sacrifice from their private parts in extreme cases of fanaticism. A single drop of blood is shed onto a piece of cloth; once each participant has comingled their blood with the others, the cloth is ritually blessed and consigned to the holy flames, carrying their devotion to the Queen.		* Token blood sacrifice. This is done only on occasions of ceremonies such as marriages, religiously-binding vows, funerals, or pledges of loyalty to a new sovereign. Those that are giving sacrifice come forth and are pricked with a sacred knife. The most common sites are the earlobes and the ball of the thumb, although some have been known to give sacrifice from their private parts in extreme cases of fanaticism. A single drop of blood is shed onto a piece of cloth; once each participant has comingled their blood with the others, the cloth is ritually blessed and consigned to the holy flames, carrying their devotion to the Queen.

	[[Category:Ascended Heroes]]		[[Category:Ascended Heroes]]

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	Without the ritual that bound her, the mortal frame of the Queen began to fray. The [[First Law]], long in abeyance by demonic power, now started to bind. But buoyed up by the faith and worship of a nation, the Queen saw a chance to transcend death and continue watching over her people from the realms immortal. Her apotheosis occurred on the Feast of Serpents Waiting in the year 205 AC. Surrounded by her [[handmaiden]]s and most loyal worshipers, she cheated death's embrace and flew on the wings of worship through Shadow into the [[Astral]] plane without tasting death. There she surrendered her flesh, forming a new body of astral energies and staking a claim on a demesne in [[Mara]]. Her [[Divine Rank]] is [[Ascended Hero]].		Without the ritual that bound her, the mortal frame of the Queen began to fray. The [[First Law]], long in abeyance by demonic power, now started to bind. But buoyed up by the faith and worship of a nation, the Queen saw a chance to transcend death and continue watching over her people from the realms immortal. Her apotheosis occurred on the Feast of Serpents Waiting in the year 205 AC. Surrounded by her [[handmaiden]]s and most loyal worshipers, she cheated death's embrace and flew on the wings of worship through Shadow into the [[Astral]] plane without tasting death. There she surrendered her flesh, forming a new body of astral energies and staking a claim on a demesne in [[Mara]]. Her [[Divine Rank]] is [[Ascended heroes\|Ascended Hero]].

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	==Ascension and Worship==		==Ascension and Worship==
	Without the ritual that bound her, the mortal frame of the Queen began to fray. The [[First Law]], long in abeyance by demonic power, now started to bind. But buoyed up by the faith and worship of a nation, the Queen saw a chance to transcend death and continue watching over her people from the realms immortal. Her apotheosis occurred on the Feast of Serpents Waiting in the year 205 AC. Surrounded by her [[handmaiden]]s and most loyal worshipers, she cheated death's embrace and flew on the wings of worship through Shadow into the [[Astral]] plane without tasting death. There she surrendered her flesh, forming a new body of astral energies and staking a claim on a demesne in [[Mara]].		Without the ritual that bound her, the mortal frame of the Queen began to fray. The [[First Law]], long in abeyance by demonic power, now started to bind. But buoyed up by the faith and worship of a nation, the Queen saw a chance to transcend death and continue watching over her people from the realms immortal. Her apotheosis occurred on the Feast of Serpents Waiting in the year 205 AC. Surrounded by her [[handmaiden]]s and most loyal worshipers, she cheated death's embrace and flew on the wings of worship through Shadow into the [[Astral]] plane without tasting death. There she surrendered her flesh, forming a new body of astral energies and staking a claim on a demesne in [[Mara]]. Her [[Divine Rank]] is [[Ascended Hero]].

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	* Token blood sacrifice. This is done only on occasions of ceremonies such as marriages, religiously-binding vows, funerals, or pledges of loyalty to a new sovereign. Those that are giving sacrifice come forth and are pricked with a sacred knife. The most common sites are the earlobes and the ball of the thumb, although some have been known to give sacrifice from their private parts in extreme cases of fanaticism. A single drop of blood is shed onto a piece of cloth; once each participant has comingled their blood with the others, the cloth is ritually blessed and consigned to the holy flames, carrying their devotion to the Queen.		* Token blood sacrifice. This is done only on occasions of ceremonies such as marriages, religiously-binding vows, funerals, or pledges of loyalty to a new sovereign. Those that are giving sacrifice come forth and are pricked with a sacred knife. The most common sites are the earlobes and the ball of the thumb, although some have been known to give sacrifice from their private parts in extreme cases of fanaticism. A single drop of blood is shed onto a piece of cloth; once each participant has comingled their blood with the others, the cloth is ritually blessed and consigned to the holy flames, carrying their devotion to the Queen.

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==Mortal Life==
Born the daughter of the last king of the [[Fanged Kingdom]] in approximately 315 BC, her name has been erased from history. As part of her father's bid at apotheosis, she was (involuntarily) placed upon the Stone Throne in [[Ar Salem Dolem]] and a ritual focus was constructed. All the worship and the souls of the sacrifices (at first only animals, but later humans) flowed through here and into the focus (and thus to the [[White Skull]]). She acted as both an object of worship and a filter, purifying and focusing the stream of anima. Her lifespan, fed by the anima stream, was tremendously prolonged, but she had to endure the detritus left behind as the souls flowed through her own.

Unable to leave the [[Ar Salem Dolem|Great Pyramid]] and under the control of the High Priest (who was given a control totem), she was a ceremonial figurehead until the [[Cataclysm]]. There is little record of her having any influence. In the years after the [[Cataclysm]] and before the people returned from [[Kel'al'ar]], she and a much-reduced priestly bureaucracy coexisted uneasily. After the return and the founding of the [[Stone Throne]] nation, she began to exert influence through her [[Handmaiden (Title)|handmaidens]]--body doubles chosen and altered to look like her and act as her agents throughout the nation.

It was through a retired handmaiden that she made contact with the [[Catalysts]] who were exploring the [[Stone Throne]] from the [[Council Lands]], seeking the [[Dark Lady]]. They, in their inimitable fashion, came to [[Ar Salem Dolem]] and stormed the High Priestess's estate, killing her and destroying the both the control focus and then the ritual focus, breaking the spells that held her bound.

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