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One faithful worshipper and patron of Ilmater here! The church has no official holy days, but the priesthood must pray/meditate 6 times per day.

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While this is true of the religion as a whole, I've a suggestion that I would have folded into Realmslore if there had been room in LOI / ESS.

Each monastery or abbey or library (or whatever you call your local bastion of Ilmatran priests) has local holidays/celebrations to venerate their patron saint of Ilmater. Thus, the semi-isolated Cloister of St. Yutharl in the southern Qadim Hills (the foothills around and beneath the Troll Mountains) celebrates Yutharl's birth (Eleasias 3, 1141 DR), his death/the date of his martyrdom (Ches 22, 1189 DR), and the date when Ilmater declared among his clergy that Yutharl was indeed a saint in his eyes (Greengrass, 1191 DR).

The cloister is simply a walled cluster of buildings on a high hill cliff above the confluence of the Fireflow and the Trollstooth Run. The group's flower and seal is the cliffstear, a rare cousin of the violet with brilliant blue flowers that appear to drip off the clinging vines, and they grow all around these hills and cliffs. The monks here are historians and librarians of lore by rangers and wanderers. Thus, they are a good source of wilderness information (including information on fighting trolls, using local plants and animals for healing, etc.) on the Giants' Plain, the Shining Plains, and the Greenfields to the north.

Yutharl was an adventurer and wanderer in the model of Dalagar Long-Walker and Bowgentle--wandering simply to experience the world and nature and see what he could see and help those in need he met along the way. While never a religious man during his lifetime, he defended a small wagon of Ilmater's faithful for nine days and nights from a determined clutch of trolls. The final battle took place on the cliff where the cloister now stands, as Yutharl managed to hack seven trolls to pieces and scatter their limbs into the raging river. He died of his wounds on that very spot, and the Ilmatrans (originally traveling to one of their monasteries in Calimshan) founded a new walled settlement around Yutharl's grave. Over time, they also built secret stairwells inside the cliffs and established a small ferry by which they can provide travelers with passage over the raging rapids here for small tithes.

Wow....no idea where all that came from, but maybe it means I'll have a productive day on other writings....

Steven

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Originally posted by Lady Kazandra

I'm looking for some basic information that details the daily rituals performed by the faithful of Chauntea.

Can anyone help?.

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Originally posted by Lady Kazandra

I'm looking for some basic information that details the daily rituals performed by the faithful of Chauntea.

Can anyone help?.

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Originally posted by Lady Kazandra

Indeed it does, thanks Sirius.

Now, another question -

What special/holy days do Chauntean faithful observe?.

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Few ceremonies of worship fall at set times. Passing one's wedding night in a freshly tilled field is held by Chaunteans to ensure fertility in marriage. Greengrass is a fertility festival, wherein uninhibited behavior and consumption of food and drink is encouraged. The much more solemn High Prayers of the Harvest celebrate the bounty Chauntea has given a community and are held at different times in each community to coincide with the actual harvest of crops, rather than precisely at Higharvestide.

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Originally posted by J. "Boots" Moonshadow

What about Mask? Does exist a "holy" day for my God
Please help me with this infomation..I just cannot find it! (sigh)
- "Boots"

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There are no calendar-related rituals in the Church of Mask, but at every full temple of the god, the Ritual of the Unseen Presence is celebrated at least once a month. This ritual is an acknolwedgement in chanted verse, hymns, and offerings of wealth--coinage stolen by the faithful that is melted down in altar-flanking braziers or crucibles--of the constant regard of Mask, who sees all deeds, however well hidden.

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Originally posted by Lord Rad

Does anyone know if theres a particular day of importance in the Faerun calendar for Mielikki worshippers?

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Originally posted by J. "Boots" Moonshadow

How, that was faster than I expected.

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Thanks for helping this still inoffensive and bold server of Mask.

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Greeting from the End of the World.

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