Ursanism

Praise be the great bear, the one who protects and nurtures us, Praise be her ferocity, her strength, may she lead us to safety and victory.

Mother Bear

This religion is practiced uniquely by the Felmen, the beast races of Felmeria, they believe the one true Deity of the world is a great, all-powerful mother bear called Lita.

She is a symbol of protection, nurturing, strength, and ferocity, for a bear shows love and care to her cubs, but death and contempt to those who would harm them.

Temples

There are many shrines to the goddess, where people may gaze upon her likeness and be in awe.
These temples come in many shapes and sizes, the countryside sees smaller wooden temples, just big enough to service small villages. The cities, however, see grand temples, architectural marvels of rock and glass.

Religious Organization

The faith is split into five distinct branches, one for each of the Felmer races, and each of these branches is led by a High-Priest.
The basic structure is as follows:

Volunteers
Large parts of temple's needs are met by volunteers. They do maintenance, they help prepare food, and many other things. In the countryside, this is less true, but in the cities, it is common for most of the people working in a temple to be volunteers.

Prior
The volunteers vote representatives into power to lead them, usually it is only one, but very large temples may have multiple, such representatives are called Priors, meaning 'first'.

Monk
Volunteers who wish to dedicate themselves to the temple more fully may apply for monkhood. If accepted, they are then educated in the true ways of mother bear, and eventually, they are named monks and sent to work in the temples full-time.
Monks not only do chores, but they also guide the faithful in prayer.

Priest
The true teachers, however, are not the monks, that is the job of the priests. When a prior proves especially capable, loved, and dedicated, they may be offered the chance to become a priest. This includes a more extensive education in the ways of mother bear, and it turns them into true teachers, leaders, and confidants.
When people come to the temple looking for help, the priest offers advice and guidance. In times of hardship, the priests offer hope and reassurance.

Abbot
Abbots are high-ranking monks. They slightly outrank priests, but not by much. It is their job to lead the other monks. smaller temples will mix the role of the priest and abbot, but larger temples with separate the monastic branch, and that of the priests into separate hierarchies.
Monks have their own section of the temple, often a separate building, called the monastery, where they live.

First-Priest
The bear is a high-ranking priest, they lead large temples and often have multiple smaller temples under their jurisdiction as well. The high priest promotes them from among available priests.

High-Priest
The high priest leads the entire branch of faith, and they are voted into power by the faithful, from among available First-Priests.

Militant Holy Orders

The faith has a number of militant orders, they are often founded with a specific purpose, whether that be protecting temples, fighting evil, or guarding hospitals.

War-Priest
War-Priests are types of priests, they leave the temple to pursue a life of fighting for Mother Bear. They often join militant holy orders and give up the ability to ascend in temple hierarchy.

GrandMaster
The head of a militant order is called the grandmaster, and is always elected from among war-priests.

The Blood of Mother Bear

Each branch of the faith, alongside the High-Priest, have a carrier of the blood of mother bear. This is not a church administrator, but a warrior. This individuals exact status within the faith depends on the branch, but in all branches, this is a most important individual.
In three of the branches there is a holy order called: '(Nations) Knights order for the Blood of Mother Bear'. Of which the carrier of the blood is the grandmaster.

They have the power to transform into the avatar of mother bear, and use her strnegth and her fury to lay waste to their enemies. With this power, they are granted great toughness, resilience, and the ability to heal their own wounds.

When they age and lose potency, they will seek to pass their gift on to the next generation. They will choose the most capable of their war-priests, and ask them if they are willing, for to be the carrier of the blood is a great responsibility.
They drain a cup of blood from their own veins, and the recipient drinks it. This will then start the transition. The gift will leave its current host and be passed on to the recipient over the course of a few hours. At the end of these hours, there will be a new carrier of the blood, and the previous carrier will be dead, their life force drained from them.

Branches

Each nation has its own interpretation of the faith, and their organization of the faith differ to some degree. Some deviate more from the above-described norm than others, though.

The Blood King of Lupinor

Of all the branches, the Lupinorian is the only one that has crowned their carrier of the blood as their monarch, a tradition that started centuries ago and has continued to this day. This Blood King transformed Lupinor's Knights for the Blood of Mother Bear into his personal guard and selects his replacement, not from among them, but from among his most capable offspring.

Rodential Clergy

Rodentia has integrated its clergy into its government in the form of a house of representatives. This house is meant to represent the spiritual needs of the Rodentian people.
They are gathered in the Mofruea Cathedral, one of the grandest temples in all of the faith, and there not only the High-Priest resides, but a number of Orators, elected church officials, who represent the faithful in the government.

Borlandian Theocracy

Borlania has become a theocratic state, meaning their High-Priest is also the king, and as such, they have greatly expanded their clerical structure to include all the necessary branches of government, each led by a Minister-Abbot and staffed with abbots and monks.
They have transformed the Borlandian Knights order for the Blood of Mother Bear into the leading structure for their entire military, with the carrier of the blood at its head.

Mothers Blessing

A lesser strain of the blood allows certain families to transform into a more beastly and more powerful version of their race, this ability is known as mothers blessing, and it is passed from a mother to her children.

These individuals are considered sacred by the clergy, and they are often made shieldmaidens, or squires to carriers of the blood of mother bear.