Wana

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Wana, the brute is the god of sickness and slaughter. The only god that is seen as evil in stead of neutral, because she is a cruel god. Wana is the dumb ugly ogre goddess and doesn't like that at all. She is generally cruel and hateful, and enjoys finding painful ways to kill people. If anyone is stupid enough to provoke Wana she becomes even more cruel and hateful. Her Angels are the Rats, the bringers of sickness. The sickness the rats spread is actually a magical effect that, most of the time, discriminates between evil and good. Killing only those with a wicked streak. Her demons, the goblins, are one of the weaker demons of Heimr. To compensate for this weakness they are with many, and they multiply like rabbits. The goblins are cruel, swarming, and eat children.

General Worshipping methods

Since Wana is the goddess of Brutality and Slaughter, the primary method of worship is the slaughter of things, both small and big. This is often seen in Ogre rituals, who perform slaughter on animals, Asgardians, other humanoids and sometimes even other Ogres. Brutality is seen in how those Ogres deal with their victims during such rituals. A victim is usually kept alive as long as possible while being dismembered. The rituals are often accompanied by load bellowing, roaring and screaming, another way of displaying Brutality and honouring Wana. These worshipping methods mostly appeal to the evil side of Wana and because they are the most prominent forms of worship, Wana is usually seen as having only and evil side.

Mosts ogre tribes are evil worshippers of Wana by default, since the worshipping of the evil side of Wana is far more prominent than the worship of the good side.

Good Worshipping methods

Good methods of worshipping Wana exist, however. These are less brutal and bloody, but often even more disgusting. Shamans and ogres looking to become shamans practice a ritual called Drinking the soul of Wana. The subject has to ingest a liquid called Wana's soul, a mixture of (cholera) infected diarrhoea and vomit taken from a previous participant. After drinking the soul of Wana the Ogre is tied to a sacrificial alter and will remain their until the they either die or overcome their illness. During this time Ogres, usually family, will provide the subject with the blood of animals to drink. This ritual has in the past decades gained great popularity with Ogres. And in the past few years the lack of available willing subjects has led Ogres to adopt the ritual as a form of torture and communal entertainment. This practice is an abomination of the ritual in the eyes of the more good natured worshippers, who prefer to keep the soul of Wana away from the enemy.

A different way of honouring Wana in a good way is by wrestling all that join the ritual and biting each other while doing so, this marks evil Ogres in good tribes. If you have been bitten you have to leave the wrestling ring and the winner (the last one standing without bite marks) leaves the ring the new champion of Wana until the ritual is retried. The champion of Wana is a simple title of honour in most tribes, but can have crude political influence in other tribes, in some rare tribes the champion is also automatically the leader of the tribe. The losers are watched closely by the shamans. If the bite marks start to get infected, Wana has identified them as unworthy and sinners (they have probably slaughtered innocents or children during their raids) and they are often used as a form of slaves by the rest of the tribe until the infection heals.

Blood and Wana

Some people mistakenly assume Wana is the goddess of blood when witnessing rituals dedicated to Wana. However, worshippers of Wana do not revere blood any more then they revere the body parts of their victims. Worshippers of Wana see blood as a product of the slaughter they performed in her name and as such, make great use of this liquid during rituals. Because blood is a relatively "easy" substance, in that it is easily applied to something, drunk, or otherwise used, it is the substance most often used after the slaughter. It is also possible to use magic to preserve it, which makes the substance valuable in the long term.

Formal evil cults of Wana

Evil cults worshipping Wana are surprisingly often enough groups of intellectuals. They are afraid that man will lose their edge in the "easy" new world and actively seek Misery and death, often causing it to promote their ideas. "The suffering of others teaches us things. It is a basic survival instinct. The more suffering We watch, even that of our fellow cultists, the less missteps we will take ourself." Is the common idea of most of these cults.

Symbols:

Symbols often used in rituals/alters of Wana are:

• Color: Red/Green
• Animal: Rat
• Guts/limbs/heads (Especially the evil side)
• Blood
• Clothing that has been bloodied in a fight.
• Vomit/puss/bile/excrements (Especially the good side)
• Drums

Vortex

Wana is one of the few gods from Heimr that has an active place of worship on the Vortex.