On Breaking with Tradition

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Part of the following chapter The Priest's Tale #19
Ennead Pilgrimage Scroll, Part 3

What Pontifex Charmion proposes is heresy. Casting aside the rituals of our forebearers, which have preserved us for generations. Replacing them with something audacious and terrible. And yet…and yet… Do we not live in a land of marvels and horrors? Are we not slain and resurrected like Osiris himself? We must be closer to the gods here, on Aeternum, than we ever were before. My bones quake, yet the more I listen to Pontifex Charmion’s reasoning, the more obvious it seems. Why would the gods leave such wonders behind, if not to guide us to them?