The Weaver of Threads

The Weaver of Threads is, as the name suggests, the Watcher of the weavers of Ouvezia. But where her human counterparts weave beautiful cloth or tapestry, she works with something much more fragile and vibrant.   Hers is the domain of Unity. She weaves society together, binding people by memory, teaching, revelry and mutual obligation. Revering her means treating Unity as an action: looking out for your friends and neighbors, supporting those who have fallen on hard times and contributing to those things a society needs that can only be achieved by working together.   Her priests are mayors and those that care for communal building and rituals. Weddings are celebrated in her temple, as are great successes for a noble house, for example. Often, a successful trader will host a communal feast in their hometown as a way of returning home, both to give back and to integrate back into the social fabric at home.   And her watch is the Fourth Watch, beginning at noon, when the shade of the sundial is shortest. It is the busiest time of the day, the time where important social gatherings happen and people go out to seek favors or tend to relationships outside the immediate circle.   Her temples are no less busy, functioning as gathering places and providing the resources for organizing communal events, like gathering places, storage space and people skilled at coordinating things Even the most successful traders can not feed a whole city, and so those types of community feasts get announced at the temple, and the priests will make sure it is known and help organize contributions from others. Usually, the host provides the gathering place and a dish or two in sizeable quantities, and the community will provide dishes of their own to welcome them back home and help feed the guests, with the priests coordinating everything.   Similar events are held to welcome children into the group, though in a somewhat unintuitive way. Usually held once every halfyear, the feast does celebrate children born before the last feast - meaning children get welcomed into society between 6 months and a year of age. This is out of respect for Fire-Within-Stone, for She is the Watcher of Childhood and familial bonds. Those first six months do belong to the family, to strengthen their own bonds with the newborn and find their own rhythm. Only when the familial bonds have developed does society knock on the door - for even thought the communal bonds can carry you, they are also always an obligation. Mother and child, for at least the first six months of the child's life, are not held to the same standards as others, when it comes to societal obligations, for they are still under the protection of the Warm Watcher.   Obviously they are still welcomed if they join a group or a feast, but they do not have to keep up appearances or even talk to people if they are not inclined to do so - approaching a mother in a time like this, even during a feast, always includes a subtle request to talk and quiet, humble acceptance if the mother signals a no.   It is said that in the old times, the Weaver and her sister, the Dawn Watcher, both were quite attached to their subjects. When a child was born, She-Who-Opens-The-Door longed to linger a little, while the Weaver couldn't wait to welcome the newest addition into the weave. To stop the quarreling, the Dawn Watcher's daughter, the Weaver's beloved niece, stood up and claimed childhood as her domain, where both of them were welcomed guests, but guests nevertheless.