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 title: Greenwardens
 description: 
 published: true
-date: 2024-05-12T21:08:15.899Z
+date: 2024-05-13T11:36:44.615Z
 tags: game-master, fiori, greenwardens, fiori's clergy, marcandrian clergies
 editor: ckeditor
 dateCreated: 2023-01-06T16:54:32.966Z
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 <p>Greenwardens tend to conduct continuous study and research potential new in the fields of herbalism and medicine, in order to either come up with new or improve existing remedies. This includes studying texts they come across on the subject matter, often gotten from the Meranzeum's archives, learning from another Greenwarden, or through experimenting with new plants, tweaking alchemical processes, or by tweaking or testing out new compounds.</p>
 <p>(<strong>Help farmers with planning crop cycles etc. Tries to commune with Fiori through rituals and observing the lands, and through prayers in their gardens – looking for signs on what the right course of action is</strong>) Just like the Heartmender herself, the Greenwardens are very involved when it comes to nature and agriculture in Marcandria. Many Greenwardens have extensive knowledge in the field of agriculture, both from knowledge passed down by their mentor and through experience by helping out farmers. When farmers are having issues with their crops or livestock, they generally turn to the Greenwardens for help. Issues could include their fields being full of parasites, or their crops or farm animals having contracted some kind of sickness. A Greenwarden will pull from their knowledge and experience, look for signs from the Heartmender in the crops and animals, and pray to the Heartmender for guidance in order to come up with the best possible solution for dealing with the issue. Greenwardens often assist farmers in implementing preventative measures to prevent issues with crops, such as guidance on crop rotations, fallowing, or companion planting crops with natural pest-repellents such as garlic or marigolds. Greenwardens also often end up doing counseling for other citizens, typically from the lower castes of society, who come to them seeking a wise ear. While people may come with them looking for advice on topics that are outside the Greenwarden's area of expertise, a Greenwarden will typically use their wordly knowledge to come up with as best advice as they can. Greenwardens can thus end up as a sort of wise-man or woman for small rural communities.</p>
 <p>Greenwardens care deeply about the wellbeing of nature, as they see it as the Heartemender's gift. They therefore oppose actions that they deem harmful or unnecessarily harsh on the land. Farming practices where its attempted to exploit the land to the point of turning it barren, or excessive logging without reforesting. They will actively seek to lobby against such actions by convincing those with whom they have influence to oppose it with them. Those operating such endeavors can find the Greenwardens unrelenting nagging and complaining exceptionally annoying. Still, a person would have to go rather far with their overexploitation of nature before the Greenwardens would attempt to intervene forcefully. A Greenwarden will often take on a role of environmental steward in the area where they operate. These endeavors include cleaning up waterways, planting saplings, and restoring natural habitat.</p>
+<p>(<strong>Weddings, Funeral services for the common citizens, who cannot afford the more lavish services of the Joybringers or the Meranzeum. The “poor man's wedding/funeral”, in which case the Greenwarden will also bless on behalf of Meranzi and Callera</strong>) The Greenwardens also do ritual services, such as wedding and funeral ceremonies, either on their own or in collaboration with Marcandria's other two major clergies. Wedding ceremonies involving only the Greenwardens are typically seen as a “poor man's wedding”, mostly utilized by the lower classes, who cannot afford the added extravagance that comes with involving the Joybringers or the Meranzeum. Those without money at hand to afford such extravagance thus turns to the Greenwardens for a cheaper and more modest wedding ceremony. A tradition for weddings involving the Greenwardens is for the newly wedded couple to spend their first night together in either a crop field or flower field, a tradition which is more commonly followed by lower class newlyweds than upper class ones. It is believed that the Heartmender will bless the newlyweds with a fertile union as they spend the first night in the field. Greenwardens also participate in funeral services, as the Heartmender is typically seen as theone who'll come for you at the end of your life's cycle, to guide you to the afterlife.</p>
+<p>Greenwardens spend a noticeable amount of their time praying and meditating in fields or in their lush gardens, where they attempt to deepen their bond with the Heartmender and look for signs of guidance. Greenwardens believe Fiori communes through crops and flowers, with plants and flowers either blooming or drooping in response to their prayers and meditation. The Greenwardens believe the Heartmender's guidance can be discerned based on which plants bloom or droop around them as they pray and meditate. How good they are at deciphering this puzzle is often equated to how deep their bond is with the Heartmender.</p>
+<p>The Greenwardens also conduct rituals of prayer involving planting a number of different seeds in the same pot, often together with someone whose come to them seeking the Heartemender's guidance. The person will pray for guidance on a specific topic, planting the seeds as they do so. The Greenwarden will then tend to the pot, waiting for seeds to sprout. The Heartmender's guidance is then discerned based on which seeds germinated, and the growth pattern of each seed that did. This method of communication is thus rather slow, and is believed to be the Heartmender's way of reinforcing the patience and contemplation she preaches in her followers. it is believed that this method will make people contemplate on how to solve their problems on their own first, only resulting in utilizing this ritual if they find her guidance worth the wait on this particular question.</p>
+<p>and by observing how they behave around you during prayer or meditation, you can discern her guidance.</p>
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-<p>(<strong>Weddings, Funeral services for the common citizens, who cannot afford the more lavish services of the Joybringers or the Meranzeum. The “poor man's wedding/funeral”, in which case the Greenwarden will also bless on behalf of Meranzi and Callera</strong>)&nbsp;</p>
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-  <li>Fiori and the Greenwardens can in many ways be seen as the clergy/faith of farmers and other lower-class and common-people. Those who either cannot afford the extravagant practices of&nbsp;Callera's teachings, or simply either want either a simpler or more natural celebration or ceremony, often turn to the Greenwardens instead to perform ceremonies such as marriage. A long standing tradition the clergy holds is that a newly wedded couple should spend their first night together in a freshly tilled field, which is said to ensure a fertile union. The Greenwardens are also commonly those enlisted to hold funeral ceremonies, both among commoners and nobility.</li>
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 <p>(<strong>Communicating with the Heartmender, and attempting to deepen their bond with her and her domain, i.e. nature etc</strong>.)</p>
 <p>Spiritual Practices: Generally trying to get closer to Fiori's ideal. Regular meditation, prayer, and rituals in their gardens or in nature would be central to a Greenwarden’s life. These practices help them connect more deeply with Fiori and seek her guidance, fostering spiritual growth and insight.</p>
 <p>(<strong>The taking on off apprentices. Apprentices then moving to their own area, often looking for rural areas missing the Greenweardens' presence, to settle down in themselves</strong>)</p>