The Garden of Unearthly Delights

Wellness nuts, Sofiane's extended family, left behind elderly, poisoners, pariahs

The worst fate for a god is to be forgotten. Re-establish the ancient faith of the gods of carnivorous verdure and enact a dark apotheosis.

The God of the Grove: Sofiane - Son of Adroa, Bringer of War, Poisoners, Pariahs, and Grand Obscenity

Walk the poison path and pray to the god of the grove, death is your gift in exchange for your worship.

Some pleasures are so intense they can corrupt the laws of the physical world. A poison that can harm is often also a medicine that can cure. You eat, drink, inhale, and rub poisons on your skin, not to harm yourself, but to absorb the powers of plants for pleasure, for power. You choose to poison yourself in a sacred ritual manner to aid in inducing trance, imbas, visions, possession, for the pulsing power they lend.

Let those who are unable to care for themselves due to illness or old age come to the sacred grove, they can spend their remaining years safe and sound here, enjoying the garden. The plants burrow beneath their skin and slowly feed, granting them the blissful long Kiss.

Plants and fungi lead aggressive, active lives struggling against each other for survival. Plants can feel what happens to them. Plants can count. Plants can communicate with each other. Plants sometimes try to control animal behavior, even human beings, but they do it subtly and often for mutual benefit, so we rarely notice, but plants are almost always at war.

Supplicants tend to the garden, offering their worship, labor, prayers, blood, and forfeit the names and lives of their enemies in exchange for invigorating ruby ambrosia.

Skill Specialty: Horticulture or Fungiculture

Initiates study plantlore to learn the secrets of the myriad uses of plant and fungi, entheogenic and recreational, medicinal pharmakeia and baneful veneficia, weal and woe.

Interdisciplinary Specialty: Horticulture or Fungiculture (•) [CofD 45] or Area of Expertise: Horticulture or Fungiculture (•) [CofD 44] or Holistic Awareness (•) [CofD 44]

Maenads and Satyrs are empowered to guard the greenhouse where the Mandragora sleep, a sacred grove of unearthly crimson trees encased in glass in the heart of Downtown.

Temple Guardian (•••, Style) [SotC 182] or Altar (•) [VtR 109] shared with the Cult. As an explicit add-on to the Altar merit, when casting a ritual that normally affects only yourself, you may grant the benefit to a number of participants equal to your Crúac rating.

Cyprians strive to learn as much Crúac as their gaping souls can stomach, spilling blood like water and chanting until their voices crack.

Vampires: Gain Green Fang (•) [BtA 12] and either Chorister (••) [SotC 181] or Animalism Devotion: Of Rose and Thorn (••)
Mortals/Supernaturals: Mother's Army Recruit (•••) [HD 45]

The God of the Grove is the Childe of Adroa that sits upon a throne of thorns, an incarnated divine being capable of counsel both mad and sage, with peerless mastery over flora, fauna, and fungi. They may be accompanied by the Divine Consort who soaks their roots with blood.

Supplanting the God of the Grove is only possible through a single means: destroying them and drinking their heartsblood to become the Rex/Regina Nemorensis so that the souls of all the old Grove Kings/Queens become contained in a single vessel.

Vampires/Ghouls: You Are What You Drink (•••) [BtA 13] and learn a single Crúac rite of your choice equal to or below your Crúac rating.
Supernaturals: One dot of Crúac and learn a single Crúac rite of your choice equal to or below your Crúac rating.
Mortals: Three dots of Supernatural Resistance (•••) [HL 78] merit and learn a single Crúac rite of your choice equal to or below your Crúac rating.