Emra Gohg was the religion contrived by a number of Druinar elves, which was dedicated to the angel of pain, M'ranin and her offspring, the Fouled Seven. The name means "pain servant" in High Vinthish.
It was particularly marked by brutal ritual sacrifices, often of captured slaves of all manner of races, although they believed she favored giants for their quantity of blood and elves for their quality of blood. Humans, meninar, and dwarfs were also used, as well as animals when no other options were available. Because M'ranin and the Dark Seven had been banished to the Shadow Lay (making them darkangels, the Emra Gohg always performed their sacrifices at night, with the new moon being the optimal time aside from locations at the far longitudes such experience weeks of total darkness in winter.
Sacrifice and Pain
Pain was the most important element of sacrifice, although traits of the Fouled Seven were also incorporated into ritual. One thing to note is that the zealots themselves viewed sacrifice that resulted in death as being less meaningful than continued sacrifice of the consenting. So the zealots themselves would also practice blood-letting of themselves to mirror the blood being spilled by captives. In this way they could give more blood over a lifetime than a captive could in one instance.
Pain was the most sacred experience, but they always strove to achieve a state called dvanagask, which was the perfect amount of pain.
Deities
- M'ranin - chief deity and angel of pain
- Gugil - darkangel of ritual and order, represented by Emra priests as a markhor
- Jolth - darkangel of clarity and focus, represented by Emra priests as a serpent
- Anagas - darkangel of blood and breath, represented by Emra priests as a bat
- Disirra - darkangel of sobriety and strictness, represented by Emra priests as a spider
- Iora - darkangel of progression and experimentation, represented by Emra priests as a moth
- Serulys - darkangel of vengeance, represented by Emra priests as a boneshrike
- Naldreg - darkangel of duty and purpose, represented by Emra priests as a wasp
Sacred Sites
There were a number of sacred sites throughout the world, mostly temples or altars where sacrifices were performed.