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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mikeg" data-source="post: 6009077" data-attributes="member: 39640">ÄRAM: Wake of Fallen Empire RELIGIONTeulan Secularism and the MotherhoodOrigins within the cults of the locust deity CrhywilPhilosophy espouses a collective utilitarian concept of the greatest good for the greatest numberContrast with Artan ideas of priority of the individual as most basic agent. Teleological vs. deontological philosophyArtan ideal realm/Teulan natural realmTeulu Lleianelven matriarchal order, "The Motherhood"predates the Imperial line, matriarchs were source of authority for chieftains, their order would appoint a time to murder the aging chieftain among their sacred cairns or hedgerows and instill his successor.Although these rites had been discontinued, Baniorath, the last elven emperor, after murdering all potential heirs to his throne, willfully succumbed to death by garrote at the hands of the Teulu Lleian Matriarch, this symbolic act ceding authority of the Imperial Lineage to the Motherhood from which it came.elven genealogical records are exhaustive and maintained in secrecy, some memorize lineages to safeguard libraries, used to arrange marriagesnot uncommon for most elves to be visited by an envoy of the Teulu Lleian requesting presence in Alfaad for a sanctioned marriage, if you're an elf they know where you areDespite the historical value of the Lleian genealogical records, there is a strain of thought among humans on the Continent that sees their existence as proof of Teulan bigotry, "My brothers of Ayr, why do they keep a tally but to ensure that it never bear your name?"eugenicsto produce Inun Eisu, the Anointed One, who will save all elvenkind (humans, dwarves, halflings too? ambiguous)life span, diet, meditation, elves during the late Empire rarely lived longer than 180 yearssome in isolated sanctuaries (mostly on Alfaad) have been living over 1200 years old, as in antiquitythese practices are seen as a return to pure elven life and blood</blockquote>

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