Verdantism
Verdantism is the Jerichan faith tradition devoted to Ylthwyn and Vessina, the Sister Treants. It is a faith of restraint, renewal, obligation, and the belief that civilization must remember the land beneath it.[1]
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Overview
Verdantism is the Jerichan faith tradition devoted to Ylthwyn and Vessina, the Sister Treants. It is a faith of restraint, renewal, obligation, and the belief that civilization must remember the land beneath it.[1]
Ylthwyn and Vessina, the Two Who Root
Description
Ylthwyn is the Elder Root: memory, patience, continuity, and survival through slow growth. Vessina is the Young Bough: renewal, flexibility, and the old world bending enough to remain alive.[3]
Take, then return
Description
Verdantists teach that expansion without return is a wound. A tree cut for a home demands planting, a field harvested demands offering, and a city built from stone must leave space for root, moss, shade, and rain.[4]
Grove rites and green courts
Description
Common practices include Planting Rituals, Blessing of the Harvest, Binding of Stone and Root, and the Verdant Concordance for dispute settlement through restoration rather than victory.[5]
Verdant Order, Grovekeepers, Urban Verdantists, Rootbound
Description
The Verdant Order seeks sustainable civilization, Grovekeepers protect sacred sites, Urban Verdantists repair cities, and the Rootbound force civilization to retreat from land they believe has already been overclaimed.[6]
Repair or revenge
Description
Post-Centrum Verdantism is resurgent amid damaged farmland, polluted rivers, and failed magical infrastructure. Its main conflict is whether Jericha can still be taught balance or must be forced back into it.[7]
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- [1] Verdantism↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference verdantism; original wording and source certainty retained - [2] Verdantism↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference verdantism; original wording and source certainty retained - [3] Verdantism · Ylthwyn and Vessina, the Two Who Root↩1↩2↩3↩4
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Published reference verdantism#power-ylthwyn-and-vessina-the-two-who-root; source entry 1 - [4] Verdantism · Take, then return↩1↩2
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Published reference verdantism#doctrine-take-then-return; source entry 2 - [5] Verdantism · Grove rites and green courts↩1↩2
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Published reference verdantism#practice-grove-rites-and-green-courts; source entry 3 - [6] Verdantism · Verdant Order, Grovekeepers, Urban Verdantists, Rootbound↩1↩2
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Published reference verdantism#sects-verdant-order-grovekeepers-urban-verdantists-rootbound; source entry 4 - [7] Verdantism · Repair or revenge↩1↩2
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Published reference verdantism#modern-repair-or-revenge; source entry 5