Name: Crescere
Crescere is a somewhat different Deity in that she cares about her clergy, but can disappear for months at a time without any contact. Her worshippers, however, seem to understand this well enough because she isn’t really disappearing, but is being so absorbed in whatever project she is working on that nothing else matters. However, when there isn’t a project requiring her attention, she pays as much attention to her worshippers as any other Deity does to their own followers.
Crescere’s main temple is located within the Dwarven city to the north. She tends to find their personalities more fitting to her own than any others. Because of her location and her rare movements, people have been traveling to the Dwarven city on pilgrimages in order to see her at work and her rare machinations. She has no problems with this and even encourages it. In recent years, the Dwarves have created a small section in their city in order to house their frequent guests as best as possible. While at first they didn’t like this idea, it has brought in lots of money and trade.
Gender: Female
Appearance: A mismatch of skins from different women and machine, Crescere’s body is designed to have the perfect shape, but the mismatching of flesh and machine create the appearance of an unattractive girl. While her features may appear beautiful in separation [as they were all taken very enchantingly beautiful women], together, they create a horrible monster of life and unliving.
Special Equipment/Weapons: While it is said that Crescere does not need weapons as she can create anything she wants in her hands, she is always found with the most intricately created pair of repeater rifles that she carries on her back or keeps close at hand when working.
Manifestations: When she is pleased with the performance of a faithful follower, she may manifest within the mind of the person a set of instructions. Rarely will the goal of the creation be known until the very end, but it will always be helpful. Alternatively, she may provide a hint or clue at solving a problem the follower has been trying for a long time to figure out. Most commonly, however, when appearing before a group of clergy, she will manifest as a golem of machinery, one of such perfection that no one could have any doubt that it came directly from her.
Symbol: A crossed pair of repeater rifles on a background of gears.
Allies: Civitatem is an ally because of a connection they will always have together. Part of his own life went into the creation of hers and even on their bad days, they always feel connected.
Enemies: Ravina, the one who feels the desire to destroy everything Crescere attempts to create. Occasionally Wyrre because his battles of conquest are frequently destroying what she has so lovingly put together. However, Wyrre has been an occasional ally depending on the reason for the war. This happens only when she believes that more good will come from the bad, such as the takeover of a regime who suppressed creativity and independent thought.
Clergy
Above all else, the clergy of Crescere desire to create, preferably not weapons of destruction. Their goal is create the new, the interesting, and the fascinating and to make sure that Ravina does not touch what is created. The ultimate goal in any clergy member of Crescere is to create a way to make a creation last forever without failure. They do not differentiate between race or sex because they believe that creating transcends all differences in a way nothing else can. Only intellect and creativity matter in a person, nothing else.
The clergy spends part of their days experimenting, creating new substances, magicks, anything. The other part of the day, they travel about their area and make sure everything is in fine order. A clock, for example, once created, must be cleaned and oiled, occasionally the parts must be replaced or fixed. Creating something and then letting it fall to disorder is even worse than not creating anything at all in the first place.
Holy Days/Ceremonies: For two weeks every year, fairs are held in major cities. These fairs are when everyone takes the opportunities to share ideas, trade, and simply to show off what they have created. Occasionally, ideas are stolen, but everyone is cautious not to destroy, even by accident. Destruction during this time carries a severe penalty, one that few know and most desire not to experience.
Dress Code: There is no dress code for the members of this clergy except for their watch. This is the symbol of their offices and the more intricate and special the watch, the higher the rank. It is said that the watch of the head of the order is capable of stopping time and that he uses this to be able to create great wonders in a fraction of the time it would take anyone else, but this is, of course, pure speculation.
Affiliated Orders
Order of Knowledge: While most of Crescere's worshippers are focused on creation and experimentation, some take a slightly different route: the recording of such knowledge. It wouldn't do for a person to create something and then to lose it when the person dies. This Order catalogues new discoveries and old [and lost], experiments [both successes and failures], and more. The purpose of this group is to make sure the knowledge will always remain in order that people don't do the horrible and basically recreate something that has only recently been created. Preventing plagiarism is also important to this Order.
Portfolio: Artifice, Earth [Metal Only], Knowledge, Run
Weapon of Choice: Repeater Rifles
Temples: Tend to be large, intricately designed building which make it easy to become lost. Some are even moving temples as if works of art created by the most brilliant of Crescere's creators. Simple shrines do not exist because why should anything be simple when it can be complex [this rule does not always apply, however, especially when simpler is basically better]. For temple layout, however, this is practically a law all follow.
Frequently, they also tend to be attached, or a part of, great libraries or schools.
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