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Goblin Territory • Minor Kingdom of Rhome

Altars and Faith of the Gutterfen Marshes

Altars tangled with mist, honors measured in rot.


Gutterfen worships not the sky but the sludge. Verdant rot, drowned ancestors, whispered omens, and mercurial luck make up the faith of those clinging above the muck.

Agencies Honored

  • Verdant Cycle: Decay as promise of new green; rot is kin.
  • Veil of Silence: Stillness over graves and buried sins.
  • Coin’s Edge: Sharp bargains with fate just as sharp as knives.
  • The Drowned: Ancestors breathing gas-lit warnings under the fen.

These pillars link back to the broader Agencies in Pillars of Faith.

Holy Sites

The Driftwood Shrine, the Stillwater Circle, and the Drowned Barrows set the stage for reflection and fear.

Rituals

Rot-dipped offerings, mud-bound oaths, the Drowned’s Breath ceremony, and coin tosses into the fen.

Sacred Relics

  • Moss‑coated flutes from the Croaking Pit
  • Veil shards from drowned idols
  • Coin-edge knives used to carve names in bone

Faith Figures

Mistcallers, swamp-bards, and the silent Drowned Mothers who sing with trapped air.

Interactions with the Faith

The clergy barter prophecies for poisons, and the Verdant priests determine crop harvests through decay ratios.

Hooks & Faith Seeds

  • An altar is desecrated, and the Drowned demand restitution before the bogs drown a village.
  • A Mistcaller guides a caravan through fog but demands a spell tied to a forgotten pillar.