The Mori, Never Truely Dead

What is dead is never truely lost, unless it is to be forgotten. The Mori are seen as suffers of a curse by a cruel god, unable to know their own past. However to some of them it is a blessing, for what they lose of their own past they learn from others to help them shape their new futures. Besides, can one truely say you've lost something if you were never quite sure you had it to begin with?

As to when exactly they came to be, most are not quite sure, as the Mori themselves often retell their history as awakening to the call of their Porcelain Goddess, a mother figure seen by many as someone to give them a second chance. However, this is not always the case.

A People Divided

The Mori are not all united under the cause of their goddess as many would think. In time each Mori has seemed to come to terms with their existence in one form or another. Often leading to them to choose a side in the debate of their existence and answer the question; Is the Porcelain Goddess truly as benevolent as some believe? Each Mori comes to their own conclusion in three schools of thought. Oftern these schools are classified as Followers of the Divine (Respect the plans of The gods), Follows of the Occult (Rejecting the plans of The gods), or apostates (believers of neither schools, often believing more in their own power then any other.

Dead, But Living

The Mori appear to be living statues, however this has proven to not be the case. For the most part, The Mori resemble humans, though some have said to have seem Mori resemble Elves or Dwarves as well. They lack any hair and are naturally unpainted, giving them pure white eyes and no tones or shades to their skin. Under this shell resets flesh fused to the Porcelain like skin. Their hearts beat slowly with veins full of a blackened, magical blood that keeps them alive. The forces keeping the Mori alive are not dissimilar to the magics that often keep a revenant or lich anchored to the living world. Still, they have needs like that of many other mortals such as still requiring food and air. The Mori, find certain aspects such as poison and diseases a triviality in their lives as they have no real ability to grow ill.

The Mori also find things like sleeping to not be as much of an issue. While exhaustion still can plague them, they do not need as much sleep as others finding many of their hours kept with light activity. If they find cracks in their Porcelain flesh or have injuries they can often use these down times to focus their energy on healing themselves with the magic in their bodies to repair fractures in their skin and close open wounds. Some Mori take more care of their appearance this way than others, seeking to keep their forms pure and colorless as devotion to their mother, while others dress themselves up in the manner similar to the mortals that may be near them, painting their Porcelain eyes to have color and giving their skin fleshy tones.

Rising of The Mori

The Mori are not born, they are made. How this process occurs is often through prayer over a fallen, as no one person chooses to become one of The Mori of their own free will. It starts with a blessing from their Goddess, a body of the unknown and forgotten delivered to a Casting Sanctum, the pools where the Mori are awakened. After it is treated with the utmost care the body is laid into a pool of slip, liquid Porcelain, and entomb to body in a perfect form. From there, they let the bodies rest and the Porcelain dry. If they do not awaken after this, the body is taken to a tomb to be put to rest and given a proper remembrance.

This is true death to the Mori, as often these are the people who have died to never be remembered. However, during the Casting Process if the body is to Awaken, this is seen as a celebration, a second chance to be given a new life and a blessing by the Goddess.

Risen With a Meaning

The Mori often see their new lives as a second chance. Blessed with a new body by a Goddess, these newly awakend go out to the world and seek a purpose as to why they were raised. Often, this can effect their point of view on their state and shaping it into a more positive or negative one. For those who see it as a more positive experience it is life granted anew and they seek often seek to spread the word of the Goddess.

In the event, however, that they grow to resent this many may turn to the darker powers of the Covens and the Occult in an attempt to end this exisistance and claw their way back into the living world and free themselves of their Porcelain body. Yet not all of them gain such a black and white perspective on the world and their new life and often take to doing what feels right by them. While neither side of this debate enjots these few, they do not seek to outright hinder them as they are often seen as not making a choice yet on their existance.