Aethera Inamorata are camp of Children of Gaia that follow the ways of Siduri Sabitu.
Overview[]
| “ | A thousand thousand welcomes, noble child. Enter into our love. Blessing upon you. We are the spiritual heirs of the hero Siduri Sabitu, who healed the earliest of human kings, and protected him from evil without and vanity within. We are men and women who use love to heal the world. We exalt sexuality and sexual love to heal wounded bodies and souls. By bringing the infinite joy of Gaia into the lives of men and women, we create peace where once there was anxiety and fear. We are the heavenly nymphs and satyrs. To the Egyptians we kept the Dance of Time over Ra, and were called the Ladies of the Hour; to the Persians the Hours became the Houri; to the Greeks, Horae; the the Semites, Harlots. To the Romans we were Lupae, priestesses of the Wolf goddess Lupa; in India, we were the earthly angles called Skywalkers, and to the Europeans we were cunning Women and Cunning Men. Throughout the ages our mission is the same: love, and the healing that love brings. The Wyrm hates us beyond all measure. It could not kill us, so it tried to convince mankind that sex was evil and unclean. The Wyrm has made all our sacred names into the foulest, most evil words known to man. Humans loved us too much to drive us out, but the Wyrm often succeeded in convincing pious churchmen to denounce out holy nature and defile our sacred temples. Our hora-houses became whorehouses. Priests and Priestesses became abject victims. As a final stab at our holy work, the Wyrm tried to make sex unclean, hurtful, and deadly. But the Wyrm cannot stop us. Out sacred rites have holy consequences even in depraved conditions. In the moment of orgasm, all men and women are linked to the divine. Even if they cannot remember the divine presence, the rapture remains within them. We monitor Kinfolk pregnancies to detect nascent Garou, and prepare the family to give up the child at pubescence. By smoothing the transition for both parent and child, we relive all trauma except the sacred ordeal of the Change. We institute intermarriage between Kinfolk of all Garou tribes. In linking our tribes together as a family, we begin to prevent wars between ourselves. This has helped build trust between tribes. If we could convince all tribes to interpret the Litany as we do, we could build great bonds between all tribes. As it is, we sanction and aid lovers from different tribes, so long as they do not reproduce. If they accept our aid, we even help them to ensure that they do not bring metis into the world. We also "adopt" other Garou. Since all Garou are Children of Gaia, all may join us and out Kinfolk network. After all, a Garou daughter raised as a Unicorn-worshipping Child of Gaia will know she is truly a child of the Goddess. Thus our tribe expands. |
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Trivia[]
- Werewolf: The Dark Ages states that this camp kept a low profile in the Christian West, but exerts their influence where they may during the Dark Ages.
- This camp wasn't even mentioned in the Revised Tribebook: Children of Gaia.
References[]
- WTA: Children of Gaia Tribebook, p. 34-35
- WTA: Litany of the Tribes Volume 1, p. CoG: 34-35
- VTDA: Werewolf: The Dark Ages, p. 69
- W20: Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition, p. 493