Honored Ancestors

The collective name for the ancestral figures revered as Ascendants by the folk of Byssia, especially the Ihmisi and more rural/mixed-blood humans. The exact personalities and rites vary by village--each village maintains its own shrines. As a collective, their worship is generally benign. Token sacrifices of flowers, food, animal feathers or wool, plants. Each shrine is watched by a priest of sorts, who usually also serves as the area's kami servant, village social worker, and often herbalist and druidic/divine practitioner. They rarely have significant magical power--a few blessings, a cure for poisons and common diseases (mostly herbal) and similar.