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Unlike some other breeds, Tundra kaasht usually care little about religion, possibly as an offshoot of not caring about tradition. A Tundra kaasht will usually accept that there are forces at work beyond the mortal realm, but these forces are rarely if ever prayed to or even personified. If a Tundra kaasht even ascribes to a particular religion, it will be the generic following of the Color Spyral and the three moons, as such is a very simple religion and properly impersonal. Despite the overall consensus to avoid religious matters, there is a small sect of Tundra kaasht who adamantly insist that their way is the only way and all kaasht must conform or die at the tail of their gods. Generally disliked by not only Tundra kaasht, but all other kaasht who come across them, this cult is very strict in demands on the followers and highly evangelical. The whole premise is that the world will end, though the exact date is not specified, and those kaasht who are not clean in the eyes of the cult's two deities will be sent to everlasting torment, though descriptions of this torment vary from eternal flames to a cold hundreds of times worse than a winter night on the tundra. Plateau kaasht who have researched the cult call the it Rraa Mraakaa se maa Iissor or "two gods of the ice" in their logical fashion, but followers call it Wremaax, or "the one path". The two gods are a male and a female in a vaguely kaasht-like form. The male is supposedly comprised of the northern lights while the female is the stuff of the frozen earth, entirely of ice and snow. They are opposites, one representing the sky and the unpredictable weather while the other is the ground and solid reality, but at the same time their characters are very similar. Both demand absolute obediance and respect, as well as a moral life and every effort to convert other kaasht. Followers of this religion are very dedicated and it is common to see them either standing in the middle of walking places in stationary clans, or huddled in some small corner of a city mumbling prayers. It might surprise some to find Tundra kaasht the focal breed of such a harsh religion, as sometimes it takes a great deal of energy to do what is demanded of them, but deeper thought makes it a rather logical step. Tundra kaasht have an innate pessimism about not only the world in general, but themselves and fellow kaasht in specific. To a Tundra kaasht, it makes sense to say that the world is full of darkness and strife, but it makes even more sense to assert that the reason for this is within every kaasht: every kaasht is imperfect and failing. However, the one compelling desire in a Tundra kaasht is to somehow escape the dull resignation of his compatriots and rise above the dreary world into something better. Wremaax offers this and more: a means of rising above other kaasht as well as one's self. Many Tundra kaasht join Wremaax because they want to better themselves, others join because the want to better the world, though some still join because they want a paw-up on other kaasht. Wremaax is not confined to the ice and snow, though it originated there, nor is it confined to the Tundra breed. On occasion a kaasht of another breed will be converted and priests are very forward, to the point of being pushy, in any kaasht city that will welcome a Tundra kaasht. The center for Wremaax is on an island between the eastern point of Mirran and the western point of Kyisna, in a city called Maa Wreoo, or 'The Source'. According to Wremaax mythology, this city is where the first Tundra kaasht emerged from the Time of Madness. |