“In Hatred, Meaning”
Colors: yellow, black, white, gray
Symbols: a harpy eagle, a tattered and bloody white flag, a corpse on a battlefield, a rusted sword
Ca’ri’kara, also known as the Blood Harpy and Corpse-eater, is a Minor God who has risen to prominence in recent years. In contemporary times, Ca’ri’kara is generally associated with the Realm of Hatred: those wishing to channel particularly strong emotion follow this God, often to their own destruction. Classically, Ca’ri’kara is more broadly associated with carnage, battle, and warfare.
Although associated with fearsome strength and bloodthirst, Ca’ri’kara is a scavenger God. Ca’ri’kara descends upon places of great bloodshed and feeds upon the corpses of the Fallen. It has long been assumed that Ca’ri’kara feeds on more than simply flesh, and many believe that, in eating the corpses of those lost to violence, so too does Ca’ri’kara consume traces of Mortal anguish, passion, and, of course, hatred.
Ca’ri’kara is unique among the Deities in that they never visit Mortals personally. Instead, Mortals, often in times of great desperation or want, approach them. To seek an audience with Ca’ri’kara is most certainly to court death, and very few survive their interactions with the animalistic deity.
Ca’ri’kara’s name, though styled after the Old Language, is in fact an onomatopoeia: “kahreekahrah” is believed to be the sound the Blood Harpy makes as they crunch on the bones of battlefield corpses.
Followers of Ca’ri’kara
Unsurprisingly, to follow Ca’ri’kara as a Devout is to follow a difficult path. Even more so than the Schemer Goddess, T’Zyri, Ca’ri’kara has no love for their followers. To Ca’ri’kara, Mortals are creatures of emotion–their only worth is that emotion often creates action.
Most who come to serve Ca’ri’kara formally have an unmet ambition or a terrible desire for justice. That Ca’ri’kara offers any Devout their Blessing is a miraculous shift in the history of Circadia.
To play a follower of Ca’ri’kara is to play a character associated with a violent and self-centered God. Do not play a follower of Ca’ri’kara if you want to play a goodly character.
Ca’ri’kara and the Layfolk
Worship of Ca’ri’kara is exceptionally rare among Devout, as Ca’ri’kara is not well liked by the majority of the Pantheon. Surprisingly, however, there are substantial layfolk cults that observe services related to the Minor God. Only quietly active, most of these Cults started during the Blood War, when Ca’ri’kara was apparent on battlefields.
Costuming and Appearance
Ca’ri’kara’s followers, layfolk or Devout, make subtle changes to their appearances. Most frequently, they add feathered mantles to their normal clothing or carry prominent feather tokens. More serious worshippers may carry on their person a rusted sword or a tattered, bloody white flag–these two symbols, intentionally tragic, are supposedly evocative of Ca’ri’kara’s connection to lost battles.
The Blessed
The Blessed of Ca’ri’kara are unmistakable in that they grow white and gray feathers and, occasionally, even talons and wings.
Zealot Larp 