The Mad Witch of Manda
"Seek Strength & Fire O Child Mine. The Rest Will Follow~"
The First Flame Fades
Darkness smothers light and forms rotted root..
But in these dreams of mine, tiny flames will dance across the dark.
Like embers, linked by Flames past.
Dearest Descendant. What Dreams of Destruction Haunts Thee?
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a Mandalorian Religion committed to the Old Gods of the Ancient Taung. More specifically, The Destroyer God Kad Ha'Rangir. The ancient precursor to Death Watch and a Promised Path of destruction & discord throughout the galaxy while promising the Mandalorian Children, Inheritors of The Culture Power, Plunder and Pleasure beyond imagination!
- Image Source: Avas Demon
- Canon Link: N/A
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- Primary Source: Kad Ha'rangir | Mythosaur Axe of Furyia | Furyia Prime |
GENERAL OVERVIEW
RELIGION NAME: The Majestic Flame of Manda
RELIGION TYPE: War for Wars sake, Destruction & Desolation to feast upon the light of stars historians will call them fanatic zealots of a bygone era! Eroded to near extinction by the ultimate god of all Time. A mere DEATH CULT committed to the destruction of the galaxy through an eternal flame stoked by Mandalorian Culture and their descendants. If only it were so SIMPLE o audience mine. Kindhearted common-folk and courageous heroes such as Jedi or noble knights call the deities of the Mandalorion Pantheon, evil, or in some cases historians have even described them as CRYPTIC. But in fact, they're simply powers who grant their worshipers strength, plunder, and pleasure, the things every sensible person wants deep within their heart of hearts even if their logical mind rotted by complacency and peace sings them otherwise! The trade-off however is while The Destroyer promises great plunder, pleasure, and power in return he seeks the destruction of entire worlds, his own people included. From the ashes of a majestic flame the spirit of manda will endure and consume! But only to those strong enough to snatch it! To drink from the light of stars and despoil the riches from anything any everything before leaving a scorched path of righteous war in their wake and consuming the galaxy in an eternal fire from the flames of which will erect flourishing new life.
But all things come in cycles. What perceived to subscribe to the philosophy of EVOLUTION for the Mandas Majestic Children of Mandalore it is only a fraction of the truth. To have great harvest is to one day have great famine! To evolve one must endure truly magnificent trials! From the ASHES of the FLAMES will arise BRILLIANT new life coveted by the Majestic Flamemother of Manda! A promise of both DEATH & REBIRTH as the soul of a Mandalorian is never put to rest, and never finished in it's duty. To push the very nature of existence to the brink in one breath and covet beautiful new life with the fires of creation in the next! But before creation, destruction is necessary! The rot of the stagnation gods roots will be burned away and scattered to the ashes as the TRUE CHILDREN OF THE MANDALORIAN CREED reject the soulkilling stagnation of modern philosophies and return to basics. Committing their blades and souls to the OLD GODS OF MANDA and subscribing to their god who promises them the most basic desires of all. Power, Plunder and PLEASURE!
It is whispered in ancient text. That The Majestic Flame of Mandas doctrine is what inspired the creation of Death Watch many many years later.
SYMBOL: In the mythic visage of the Mandalorian Ancestors the mark of The Majestic Flame is the image of an Ancient Mythosuar Axe emblazoned in the warm flame of the Destroyer God Ha'rangir, commonly encased within a star! Much how like the Mandalorian Symbol is the Skull of the Mythosuar itself, this religion focuses on the ceremonial weapon as it's primary armament, enchanting an ancient weapon known as the Furyian Axe with the power to drink from the light of stars and shatter them in the glorious waging of war! Fables, myths and fairytales sweet audience. Certainly no good could come of history such as this were it to be discovered by the Descendants of a withering warrior culture~
INFLUENCE: A Minor Religion scattered upon the stars only heard by the true inheritors of the age old Mandalorian Promise. At the height of their power this fanatical cult burned so brightly it was perhaps only inevitable that they'd perish under the sheer weight of their own magnificent radiance. To seek potential prospects and inheritors the seeds of this religion have been planted in nearly every warrior barbarian culture across the stars civilized or feral. It is an age old promise programmed into the bones of almost every living creature in existence. Kill or BE KILLED. Hunt, or be hunted! It is the FIRST RULE of Mandalorian Culture which guarantees its perseverance as it is the most basic law of all. In this reality you are either hunter or prey! The Influence of this cult spreads with their hand involved or not through the sheer presence of war. To stoke the flames of a burning village is to covet a new child of war and is that not enough to embark them into the Path of the Mandalore? From which then, further harvesting of a warriors scorching flame may be fed into the great collective unconscious of the Mandas Spirit!
INFLUENCE AREA: While considered a lost Mandalorian Path etched into the stone caves from which the Ancient Taung occupied before they scrambled into the light and dawned the armor of a warrior this philosophy of destruction and discord followed by rebirth and evolution is one that can be easily enough found in a majority of warrior cultures! And in the ancient days of the Mandalorian Crusades their hand and influence was unmistakable and lives on in the hearts of the warborn children whose burning villages warmed their spark for war. To covet and harvest precious new children of war into the embrace of The Manda is a task not taken lightly, and while expunged from the scrolls and scratched from the history books the WORD OF WRATH perseveres! To the Children worthy of inheriting the Majestic Flame of Manda goes untold pleasures, power and plunder! A NOBLE OBLIGATION TO ANY MANDALORIAN YET WARRIOR TO ANSWER THE CALL!
DESCRIPTION: Lunatics at birth, lunatics at death, and striving to stoke the flames of war in devotion to their ancient destroyer god and the eternal war he wages. The Descendants of Ancient Mandalorians have always been fickle and indecisive in their nature, attempting to write and re-write cultural text in order to fit modern sensibilities and change with a culture that has all but lost its way. There is but one true path for the Mandalorian soul, the path of the warmonger. The Destiny of a Destroyer! Cast away thy wretched doubts of conviction and embrace the eternal flame of war as the light that leads the way! Sweet subjugation and slavery of the unworthy, the desolation of the stagnant and the pleasures of plunder and power there can be no other way!
The Majestic Flame of Manda is the whisper of an age old bond, a promise to those worthy of divine inheritance. Many Mandalorians will claim to be paladins! FIGURES OF JUSTICE! Peacemakers...and they called Furyia mad! Open thy eyes sweet descendants, take the flame within your heart and go forth! Cause war! Destroy and decimate in the name of The Old Gods and usher in sweet, delicious new life from the ashes of the unworthy!
Can you hear them? The voices of your ancestors beckoning you forth? They beg sweet child.
Begging for a sweet song of eternal fire~
SOCIAL DOGMA
FOUNDER: Mythic in her visage yet expunged from the scrolls of history the name PRIME has been all but lost to the fairytale books of young Mandalorian Children. Merely a whisper of a legend as the children of Mandalorian Culture throughout time withered and rotted into a flimsy shell of the fear and respect once commanded! Following the Great Fall of the Taung Age in 3960 BBY following the Defeat of Mandalore The Ultimate at the hands of Darth Revan there was a period in history referred to by Mandalorians as 'The Great Stagnation.' A period in which the sloth and trickster gods of Mandalorian Culture had taken rotted root within the heart of Mandalorian Descendants following the steady extinction of The Mother Species of Mandalorian Culture the long lost Taung! Furyia Prime, a dwarfish girl spawned from the union of a Ancient Taung Warrior pulled into the fold of the Sith Purebloods during The Great Sith Wars was the FIRST DAUGHTER and VESSEL of the destroyer god Kad Ha'rangir.
The first to hear his voice so clearly in her mind it was like a song. Sweet music tempting her to delicious destruction! In her life the girl developed a soft spot for her mothers people, dedicating her study among the Sith Priest and her fathers Executioner of Jedi, Sith, and Mandalorians alike if they did not meet the expectations placed upon their spark. She became beloved in a way, a shining beacon to Mandalorians who still thirsted for war but being kept in check by galactic powers at the time. Through her scorching flame she cast vicious judgement upon her mothers people, scattering the weak to the dust and harvesting the strong to covet new life in her god Ha'rangir.
The plunder, riches and spoils from the countless worlds decimated in her wake was collected by her people. Even Mandalorians were not spared from her destructive flame, testing them with trials and snatching from them their possessions if deemed unworthy of the Mandalorian Name. All stashed away into a thousand treasure troves! Vaults forged in the light of stars and smothered away into the molten core of planets as a way to promise Future Generations and Inheritors of The Culture that even in the darkest times, there would be hope for them to return to their full glory! Hoping one day her descendants would find these treasure vaults and bring the spoils to the Worthy Mandalorian Inheritors and begin anew just as the Dogma dictates!
But this is a story of tragedy. Defeated by the joint forces of both a Jedi, a Mandalorian Non-Force User, and a Sith, Furyia Prime was killed before she could become a wound in the force. Her spirit banished and bonded to the mythical weapon she had designed as her phantom haunted it's radiant steel. Searching for the next inheritor of the Mandalorian Dream. The Dream of The Destroyer~
DOGMA: Something to be understood is that this order does not subscribe to morality or feelings of 'the heart'. For these hearts burn with a raging fire to purge worthy warriors with their radiance! War for wars sake, sweet slavery and superior subjugation these fanatic warmongering zealots cannot be reasoned or negotiated with. To destroy and potentially be destroyed in their greatest bliss and the promise of plunder, pleasure and power is forever on their lips! An Age Old Bond from the Mythic Age of their Ancestors during an age where the Rakatan ruled and the universe seemed just a LITTLE DARKER!
- Noblesse Oblige: Seek strength and the rest will follow O child mine. Technologies of incredible might? Take them. Artifacts of the Force? Use them. Power within your own veins? Cultivate and harvest. To have power is to be right, to reject its embrace is to welcome certain doom. Hunter or prey sweet child. When the hellhounds come nipping at your heels which will you be in the end? Noblesse Oblige; A noble obligation to the Mandalorian People. A responsibility to show them the TRUE PATH and cast judgment upon them. To the worthy? Plunder, pleasure and power beyond imagination. To the unworthy inheritors? Scattered to dust~
- God. Glory. Gold: As if there could be anything else that sings sweet melody to the Mandalorian Soul! To destroy in the name of thy god, to seek glory not only for his sake but for thy own! To plunder and pillage all things that glimmer and shine this is a promise made to every Mandalorian Child regardless of their 'creed' of thought. If you can see it...if you can take it, then it deserves to be yours. If no one can stop you? Then it was simply divine destiny manifesting in the eternal flame. War. War for the sake of war!
- Stoke The Flames: Instigate violence, seek conflict, embrace pain and make it your strength. Stoke the flames of war and chaos everywhere rather it be your war or another. Make allies and then make those same allies enemies for to love thy enemy is to overcome thy enemy. Ha'rangir demands fire and destruction from ALL HIS CHILDREN! To deny him his feast is the greatest sin O child mine.
- Purify & Purge: Stare into the fire of the village and burn away thy doubts. Cast away suspicion and morality to fully embrace a truly divine and ancient purpose! Seek stagnation and burn it away in others and in oneself! Seek the strong and either scatter them or bring them into the fold of the majestic flame. Obliterate the old so that the new may flourish and rise from the ashes!
- Dream of The Destroyer: It is a beautiful dream O audience. So sweet it could be a song. Can you see it? A galaxy consumed in the flames of war as Ha'rangir feasts from the light of The Eternal Flame. And when the lights in the galaxy go out and all ceases to exist, it is his flame which will remain. And like a supernova he will wipe away all existence and bring forth a glorious NEW BEGINNING! Oh to be a dreamer of divine destruction~
- Death & Rebirth: The Mandalorian Soul is never quite extinguished is it sweet descendants? In life the war is all that matters and in death the Mandalorian fights even harder. The Promise of The Destroyers children is that should they bring sweet discord and destruction upon the stars then even in death their spirit will be beckoned to continue the Eternal War through immortal servitude under the Majestic Flame of Manda!
SACRED: War. War never changes. And their War is Eternal! To adopt the name of Mandalorian is to adopt an age old promise. To wage war and stoke the flames of chaos IS THEIR DIVINE. The blood spilled from their conquest will drown the earths soil and in the wake of the ashes left in their path the blood will feed glorious new seeds of life! The Children of The Old Gods will kneel only to the majestic flame that casts it's radiance upon the galaxy to burn away stagnation and rot! This fanatic cult sees the divine in many things but none quite as powerful as what they see in their deity.
Second in their revelry is the Mythic Mythosuar Axe and all forms of MELEE weaponry. It is commonplace now for a majority of Mandalorian Descendants to utilize blasters, slugs. Explosives and war machines to wage their conflicts across the stars. And while this may be fine to some, hell, even encouraged by others. To the Majestic Flame of Manda such tools are HEAVILY SCRUTINIZED beneath the judgement of The Eternal Flame. In this age old order, a Mandalorians honor is won through their hands or through extension a weapon forged in iron. Holiest to the Mandaorian Ancients being the Warhammer, the Spear. And most mythical of all, the Mythosuar Battle Axe which to this day serves as the symbol of the Majestic Flame of Manda.
Third, The visage of the ancient beast in which their culture is branded is one that calls to an old true lost to Mandalorians of the Modern Era. Many think it is to merely hunt like they hunted the beast of their idolization to extinction. The Mandas Majestic Flame however wishes not only to hunt, but to cultivate. The taming of vicious, bloodthirsty creatures is a pastime of Mandalorian ancients, one in desperate need of revitalization. Beast and destructive creatures will often be harvested from countless worlds and trained as Warmounts to serve the Mandalorian Cause!
And last but certain not least. To this cult, Stagnation is sin as is dictated by the sloth god of mythology. To grow complacent and form roots of rot is to kill the Mandalorian soul! And with that, the Majestic Flame has all but abandoned the idea of permanent planetary habitation. Embracing the path of their originators they travel the stars and drink from the light of suns before moving on to the next world to pillage and plunder. Mandalore? Just another rock too many descendants have grown attached to, resulting in the withering of the culture that once was considered so great.
MEMBERSHIP: Mother of Mandas Flame, cast thy judgment upon thee! To simply be a warrior is not enough. To be a Mandalorian is NOT ENOUGH ANYMORE! Too long have false idols and inheritors of the name of Mandalorian tainted the mythic visage of their ancestors with folly and lack of conviction! To follow the path of The Destroyer is to thirst for somatic superiority. To feast, drink, and excess in all things and sip from the light of the cosmos. Many will be scrutinized beneath the Mandas Flame! Mandalorians will be called unworthy and scattered to the dust. Barbaric and feral primitives on a no name world may be embraced into the loving fire of Ha'rangir's embrace.
This is a path for the warmongers. For the flamedancers who sing their song of devastation across the stars! For those with an itch for violence that can NOT be quenched this is no path for the meek. It is for the love of the game, the delight in the hunt in which a True Mandalorian finds their soul.
It is likely Mandalorian Descendants will fulfill the Majestic Flames heavy expectations and adopt the path of their ancestors. And to those who don't? They will be scattered to dust and from their cinders and ashes will rise a stronger, mightier Mandalorian whose purpose is perverse decimation.
REPUTATION: Fanatical madmen they will say. 'Primitive savages' scholars will argue. 'Just another cult' the weak will whisper while huddling their cradles in the dark. An inkling of cinders from what they used to be most would likely just quirk a brow awkwardly as the mention of a 'Majestic Flame of Manda'. Ancient in their design and scrubbed from historic scrolls the only ones likely to have any understanding of this mysterious cult would be those with secret occult knowledge possessed within Holocrons of the mythic age. Others may simply misake them for Death Watch, the descendants of their devotion to the destroyer.
Just just wait. Wait till the embers become a great flame once again and the flame of war consumes the stars! Dread and Woe to the witnesses of divine destruction brought upon by the Majestic Flame. Long may the fire reign~
MEMBERS & PRACTITIONERS
- Furyia Prime (First Vessel & Daughter to hear The Voice of Destruction, Creator of The Furyian Axe.)
- Domina Prime (Second Vessel & Daughter to Hear The Voice, First Inheritor of The Furyain Axe.)
- All Proclaimed Children of 'Kad Ha'rangir' The Destroyer
- Sons & Daughters of Death Watch
- Primitive & Savage Species/Cultures absorbed into The Eternal Flame
- Many more to be added~
HISTORICAL CHRONICLE
An Age Old Bond. A vow. A Oath. Some things cannot be allowed to change sweet audience and when there is great stagnation and rot this oath beckons it's children forth! This is a promise most profound from a mythic bygone age where titans and colossus roamed the cosmos. The Ancestral Precursors to the Mandalorian Cult known as Death Watch and the antithesis to the Modern Mandalorian Era this ancient path has long but been eroded by the passage of time.
Salvation to the worthy inheritors of Manda, judgment to the fakes and impersonators of the Mandalorian Soul! Sweet song of discord and destruction a fire stoked across the galaxy as the Majestic Flame of Manda seeks to purify and purge! To drink from the light of stars and feast from cosmic dust can there be any greater path for a Master of War & Chaos? Founded by a Sith Mandalorian who foresaw great stagnation and rot within her mothers people after the steady extinction of The Taung in 3960 BBY following the defeat of Mandalore The Ultimate at the hands of Revan Mandalorian culture pivoted almost irreversibly into a downward spiral of decay. Never again quite reaching the heights of respect and fear across the galaxy that they once so easily commanded.
Vicious envy rotted the heart of the young Mandalorian girl. Seeking the strength to save her mothers people a voice whispered so lovingly into her ear. A voice telling her to sow sweet destruction and discord across the stars! To take the warriors of worth into her fold and purify their souls to the Majestic Flame of Manda! To stoke the flames of war across the galaxy in hopes that from the ashes beautiful new life would flourish and begin the cycle anew! A MARVELOUS DANCE OF DEATH AND REBIRTH!
Under the rule of their Primearch of the Majestic Flame these Mandalorian Inheritors attempted to RE-IGNITE the GREAT MANDALORIAN WARS that had been ended nearly a century before. Using the power of The Force to feed the fire and flames and bringing destruction on a scale considered mythic in the hindsight of historians the Daughter of The Destroyer, a girl born to the union of a Taung Mandalorian Woman and a Sith Massassi she convened with the unholy priest to convene with the force! Learning soecery and alchemy and with the help of her mother forged a weapon of woe and myth! The Mythosuar Axe! Forged in the light of a dying start and used to feast upon the chaos and destruction fueled by the Majestic Flames fanatic war of wars!
It is said, that by the end of it all Furyia Prime and her Majestic Flame had shattered the very stars and cast entire solar systems into the cold dark! Her Mandalorian Brothers & Sisters then pillaging the cold, dead worlds and taking the vast stashes of wealth and burying them within massive treasure vaults hidden in the molten core of the planets left to survive.
Her hunger for war was unmatched by any living creature in her era. The first daughter of vessel of Kad Ha'rangir and Mother of the Majestic Flame her name was all but feared in the galaxy for the shortest of times. And that fear turned to desperation in the enemies of Mandalore.
In the end. It took the combined effort of a Mandalorian hero, a Sith Traitor, and a Jedi in Exile to unite and vanquish the Majestic Flame. Killing Furyia Prime before her power could creshendo and her essence became a wound in the force. Scattering her flesh like ashes the spirit of her unbreakable will and unending thirst for fire and flames bonded and merged with the mythic Axe she had used to destroy a small chunk of the galaxy. And it is within this Axe her soul waits in torment as she searches for the next worthy inheritor of the Furyian Axe.
To the inheritor goes the power to lead Mandalorians TRUE Descendants to glory as was promised by the old gods! The leadership to call upon the Majestic Flame and all it's undead souls so the dream of the destroyer can be fulfilled once again!
LONG LIVE THE MANDALORIAN SPIRIT!
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