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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; | <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">G</span></span>rand's church has started to solidify in the third age of the world. For decades, the worship of [[Grand]] existed along with the worship of orc ancestors, neither supplanting the other and often in conflict. Around 1390, however, the son of a powerful clan leader named Jukha Marrowcruncher saw an opportunity to make changes. His tribe, several thousand strong living in and around the base of the Brech mountains, was in conflict over religious issues. Those that followed Grand insisted only Grand was worthy of worship. However, most of the tribe still worshiped their strongest ancestors. Jukha seized power with a stroke of brilliance. Smarter by half than most of his kind, he learned a fair bit of shamanism from his grandfather while still a pug. His grandfather also set him on the path to worship the Destroyer of Dwarves. He practiced the art of enchanting with the spells his god gave him and continued his shaman path to adulthood. | ||
On a hot day in the middle of the third month of the year, called Girding, he carefully placed a great number of powerfully enchanted simple items on and around a platform. He then called the tribe to a meeting in his father's name. Using the enchanted items in a spectacular display of fireworks, halos of [[light]] and bloody [[death]] for both the two loudest ancestor worshipers and the single most insistent Grand follower, he manufactured an epiphany regarding Grand. Neither side was right, he said; instead, both were. Grand wished for the clans to worship their ancestors, because the ancestors who were the strongest and took the most enemies (and the most dwarven lives) were blessed of Grand. And by venerating them, they paid homage to their god. | On a hot day in the middle of the third month of the year, called Girding, he carefully placed a great number of powerfully enchanted simple items on and around a platform. He then called the tribe to a meeting in his father's name. Using the enchanted items in a spectacular display of fireworks, halos of [[light]] and bloody [[death]] for both the two loudest ancestor worshipers and the single most insistent Grand follower, he manufactured an epiphany regarding Grand. Neither side was right, he said; instead, both were. Grand wished for the clans to worship their ancestors, because the ancestors who were the strongest and took the most enemies (and the most dwarven lives) were blessed of Grand. And by venerating them, they paid homage to their god. | ||