Lehovism
A faith attested in the cultural practices of the Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age. people and connected to ancestor-petition rites, sacred foods, and specific ritual garments. Its origins and full doctrine remain obscure in the surviving records. It is known through the material culture it shapes: frondwood Natural History Frondwood The Frondwood is a tall, slender tree whose smooth fibrous trunk is crowned with great vaults of feathery fronds, each leaf laced finer than the weave of ancient banners. barkcloth inscribed with ancestor-names and worn in petition rites, and certain insects treated as sacred in its ceremonies.
Key traits
- Ancestor-name inscription is central to practice; fronds inscribed with the names of the dead are worn on the body as petition garments.
- Certain insects, among them the Brinewasp, the Hollowbeetle, and the Sporecrawler, are treated as sacred within its rites.
- Frondwood barkcloth serves as the primary ritual material, used for scholar-robes, funerary veils, and tunics of silent scribes.
- Attested in Maan cultural contexts; its founding era and institutional structure are not recorded in surviving sources.