(12-06-2016, 12:54 PM)Suna/Kana Wrote: What I want to know is, how does one cleanse Green Wrath? Is there a proper ritual for this sort of thing?
There is a proper ritual, only able to be performed by Conjurers of the Fane. This ritual is called a Rite of Purification. This Rite was the central theme of the 1.0 Gridanian storyline when the elementals of the Wood were far more powerful than before the Calamity, back when the Black Shroud lived up to its name and the wood was much thicker, more obstructive, and rumors claimed the pathways through the forest would change as the very trees came alive. The fires that ripped through the Wood have weakened the aetherial balance there, and so rites to cleanse woodsin are never mentioned in the ARR version of the game, though they are occasionally referenced.
There's some obscure lore that tells us, if needed, a Rite of Purification or Cleansing would take place once monthly at a festival called the "Woodgreet Mass." Other events would take place at this Mass, including a Fasting Ceremony (hearers forsake any food not taken directly from the wood), the Leafreading Ceremony (hearers consume hallucinogenic spores), and the main event: the Loam Eye Ceremony, where newly come residents of the Shroud would be showered with earth and leaves.
Light for the Rites Wrote:The Stillglade Fane is busy making preparations for this moon's Woodgreet Mass, and requires several evenfall fireflies to use in the Rites of Purification. In which two and ten of the luminous creatures are released from a basket over the Fane, their light believed to cleanse the sacred land and prepare it for ceremonies to follow.
The actual process of the Rite of Cleansing is best described by some of the NPC quotes below. Essentially an expertly carved mask is placed on the person seeking to be cleansed, the conjurers then draw upon the energies of the crowd (through dance) to draw woodsin out of a person and into the mask. One mask can only hold so much woodsin though before it breaks. Which is one of the reasons why Wood Wailers (who wear the halfmasks to soak up that woodsin) replace their masks regularly, even post-Calamity, but the ritual burning of the Wailer mask has since come to serve as remembrance for those who lost their lives to the Calamity.
Behind the Mask Wrote:Once every full moon, the Wood Wailers conduct a ceremony in which they create a giant pyre and set alight masks to honor the spirits of those spears who fell at the Battle of Carteneau, five summers past. Black Rabbit Traders have been commissioned to provide the masks, and they now seek talented woodworkers to assist them in completing the order in time.
Greenwrath can actually be expunged in a similar manner, though the Conjurers and moogles warn that the occurrence of an elemental relinquishing their hold on one taken by the Wood is incredibly rare and the cost of doing so may prove too steep.
Pudgy Moogle Wrote:And are you— Hey! You understand what I’m saying, kupo! Save a wildling? You mean one taken by the greenwrath, kupo? Taken and claimed? Cleansing a wildling is not easily done, kupo. The conjurers must perform their cleanses. Purges and cleanses, rituals and rites.
Kan-E-Senna Wrote:I have imparted the truth of what transpires, and in their benevolence they have forgiven us much of the greenwrath. So, too, have they consented to return to us those forestborn who were spirited away.
More info on Woodsin, Greenwrath, and Wildlings can be found in the following links and in the quotes below:
-Woodsin Lore
-Woodsin, Wailers, and Wildlings
-Wildling Lore
O-App-Pesi Wrote:Hahaha, well, be that as it may, a cleansing is needed. Woodsin is not to be taken lightly─something you would do well to remember. I gather it is nigh time we hold the rites. Until then, take care not to enter the forest depths. Gods know how much woodsin you've steeped yourselves in. It could well prove your undoing.
We dance to honor the elementals, and they forgive us our woodsin in turn. Thus absolved, their greenwrath will not be stirred. Remember this.
Zezekuta Wrote:Your mask for the purification rite is nearly finished. Come, try it on to test the fit. Is there some problem? I assumed Fufucha had explained everything...
The purification rite is a kind of, well... transference is what the conjurers call it. You see, dancing in the name of the elementals expunges woodsin by transferring it to the dancer's mask and binding it there, magically.
Mestonnaux Wrote:In light of this, the conjurers of Stillglade Fane have resolved to hold a rite of cleansing. Ah, you must forgive me. We forestfolk are wont to assume all know of the rite, so integral is it to our own lives. Let me enlighten you as to our ways. The majority of the rite of cleansing takes place here at Greatloam Growery. The magic enacted during the ceremony quells the greenwrath of the elementals, and thus ensures harmony within the wood.
R'djongo Wrote:We Gridanians have a penchant for festivities you'll not find elsewhere. We hold ceremonies to praise the elementals, and other rite to give them our thanks. We even dance to appease them when they are angered. If the annals are to be believed, there was actually a ceremony intended to arouse their anger at one time. What in the hells was the point of that, I wonder!? And who in their right minds would think to take part!?
