Dungeon World: Eta/Mord

In Lluth, worship of Mord is legal, but not encouraged. The state religion is the Church of Sol, which makes worship of Mord politically suspect, and then there's the question of why exactly someone would choose to focus on worshiping death instead of the life-giving sun, the blue sky above, or the land that nourishes us. Practice is confined to house churches or lords who choose to create shrines on their private estates.

Where it is found, Mord's cult follows these practices:

• Mord's followers associate death with purity. The deceased has been freed from the constant struggle of the living world. They will never again know hunger, thirst, illness, nor injury. This doesn't make death a good thing. It's just a way of finding the upside.
• Suicide is heresy. Mord will call all living things in their due time, and we come when we are called.
• Corpses are marked with ashes on their eyes in the shape of an X as part of funeral rites. The deceased will never see the living world again, and so their eyes are pure.
• Clergy of Mord have their tongues tattooed for purity, consecrated to the goddess and can speak only her holy word. This is not a geas, merely a promise to their goddess to speak no word of heresy.
• To kill a raven is a crime against Mord, to feed a raven is to worship her. Wear dead raven feathers to venerate her. Wearing feathers from a live raven is a desecration.
• Blood is offered to the goddess of death in a goblet, all blood must come from the same person. As the individual loses blood, they come closer to death, so more blood makes for a stronger offering.