Senghik Outoun

A Vargr religion.

Those who follow this faith believe that spirits with high charisma survive after death. Believers claim that Senghik Outoun initiates can channel these spirits in order to enhance their own charisma. Congregations are generally small; there are no churches, with meetings often held in members’ quarters.

Rites

Initiates work themselves into an ecstatic state through singing, music and howling, while a priest chants the (usually idealized) life history of whatever spirit is to be raised, mixed with regular invocations to an immaterial divinity, Kfaeghr Gohz ("herder of souls"). Ceremonies last three to six hours. If everything goes well, the participant will become “possessed”.

Senghik Outoun believers tell stories of hosts gaining new skills or learning lost secrets. Most observers consider the ritual a form of auto-hypnosis.

Distribution

Senghik Outoun spread throughout the Vargr Extents, mutating widely as Vargr philosophies do.

• The Ghuedzvan subsect dispenses with congregations; families perform rituals at home, channeling their ancestors.
• The Rukh kfaeghr believe that the deceased's skull is necessary for the ritual to work.
• The Zhatuga kfaeghr insist that all their priests be female and born during jump.

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