Baa-ram-ewe. To your breed, your fleece, your clan be true!
At the current rate, Wooly Snowstubs will inherit the planet!
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South of the northwestern mountain ranges, the ice melts. Puddles become lakes, and the icescape is soon dotted with vast bodies of water. Near the equator, an archipelago of islands, connected by ice in the winter. Further south, a vast ocean of water, freezing over in the autumn and speckled by icebergs in the spring. Something vast, scaled, and humanoid swims beneath the impassable waves. A human-taur atop a pink fish body. Impossibly large, the creatures who inhabit the coast are at its mercy. And for some fucking reason there are wooly snowstubs at the south pole, with nothing to eat, looking very miserable. The equatorial archipelago flourishes with life, but
Nissan the
mermaid dwells alone beneath the waves. She likes snowstubs and water nymphs, but they are both terrified of her. One group of nymphs forms a religion which worships
Nissan. The belief that
Nissan is the creator of all life quickly spreads throughout the snowstub & nymph populace of the southwestern archipelago. The culprits are the Naiads - a mature form of water nymph who travel in
Nissan's hair, preaching and enforcing her will.
The Tenets of Nissanism:1) Life is holy. No killing. Murderers don't get an afterlife.
2) Devote yourself to
Nissan. Be kind to everyone and
Nissan will provide you a happy afterlife. ((fictitious))
3) Treat the weak with fairness, treat the strong with respect,
4) Other people's needs come before one's own wants.
5) Understanding how we affect others is the path to enlightenment.
A second cult of Naiads form. Those who believe in culling their siblings prenatally in order to maximize mana generation. This tribe is shunned, and banished to the other hemispheres.
The Seeker's Path:1) Self-fulfillment is holy. Passion is art. Moderation is purity. The world is filled with deception. Inflicting suffering for your own gain is evil.
2) Truth is beauty. There are three kinds of people: Those who act falsely for the sake of others, those who act falsely for the sake of themselves, and those who act falsely without knowing it. Only once you have discovered the truth within yourself can you spread truth to others. Seeking truth is the path to enlightenment. Strength originates from beauty.
3) Life is full of suffering. The ones who sacrifice themselves for the sake of reducing the world's suffering are worthy of respect. The results justify the means.
4) Self-control is a virtue. Truth is the weapon of the righteous. Falsehood for the sake of self-indulgence is sin.
5) Only through self-improvement can you learn to vanquish deception by wielding your true inner strength against evil!
tl;dr - Nymphs in the southwestern hemisphere worship a colossal mermaid named
Nissan, who has pink fish scales and icefluff-tangled hair. This hemisphere is an ocean biome with archipelago near the equator and ice sheets at the south pole. The mature nymphs are called Naiads, and most of them preach
Nissan's will to the Wooly Snowstubs and water nymphs. Nymphs and Naiads who do not follow the laws of Nissanism are banished to the other hemispheres, where they have formed a more secular anti-natalist religion called The Seekers, who are obsessed with hedonism and cleansing the world of suffering
by whatever means.