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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 674956" data-attributes="member: 2525">I wrote, or found this (I can no longer recall) about the Drowned God, worshipped by most people on the Iron Islands, but few if any off the islands.The Drowned God The Drowned God is the principal god worshipped on the Iron Islands.&nbsp; The Drowned God brought flame from the sea, and sailed the world with fire and sword.&nbsp; When an Ironman drowns, it's said that the Drowned God needed a strong oarsman, and the refrain &quot;What's dead may never die&quot; is used.&nbsp; The Drowned God made the Ironborn to reave and rape, to carve out kingdoms and to make their names known in fire and blood and song.&nbsp; It is said, &quot;the Drowned God makes men, but it's men who make crowns&quot;.&nbsp; Priests of the Drowned God wear seawater robes, mottled green and grey and blue.&nbsp; They wear their hair and bears long and braid ropes of dried seaweed through them.&nbsp; One of the Ironborn might become a priest of the Drowned God after an experience such as nearly drowning.&nbsp; Priests carry a waterskin filled with seawater.&nbsp; The process of a blessing is that the priest has a person kneel. Using his skin of seawater, he pours a stream of it upon the person's head. As he does this he intones, &quot;Let &lt;person&gt; your servant be born again from the sea, as you were. Bless him with salt, bless him with stone, bless him with steel.&quot; Then the kneeling person responds, &quot;What is dead may never die.&quot; Finally, the priest closes with, &quot;What is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger&quot;.&nbsp; Priests of the Drowned God bless new ships, speaking invocations and pouring seawater over prows.&nbsp;Priests of the Drowned God often perform the ritual executions involving the drowning of victims in seawater if (for example) someone insults the god.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 674956, member: 2525"] I wrote, or found this (I can no longer recall) about the Drowned God, worshipped by most people on the Iron Islands, but few if any off the islands. The Drowned God The Drowned God is the principal god worshipped on the Iron Islands. The Drowned God brought flame from the sea, and sailed the world with fire and sword. When an Ironman drowns, it's said that the Drowned God needed a strong oarsman, and the refrain "What's dead may never die" is used. The Drowned God made the Ironborn to reave and rape, to carve out kingdoms and to make their names known in fire and blood and song. It is said, "the Drowned God makes men, but it's men who make crowns". Priests of the Drowned God wear seawater robes, mottled green and grey and blue. They wear their hair and bears long and braid ropes of dried seaweed through them. One of the Ironborn might become a priest of the Drowned God after an experience such as nearly drowning. Priests carry a waterskin filled with seawater. The process of a blessing is that the priest has a person kneel. Using his skin of seawater, he pours a stream of it upon the person's head. As he does this he intones, "Let <person> your servant be born again from the sea, as you were. Bless him with salt, bless him with stone, bless him with steel." Then the kneeling person responds, "What is dead may never die." Finally, the priest closes with, "What is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger". Priests of the Drowned God bless new ships, speaking invocations and pouring seawater over prows. Priests of the Drowned God often perform the ritual executions involving the drowning of victims in seawater if (for example) someone insults the god. [/QUOTE]

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