Church of Tubbius - Revision history

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 As noted in Sabinus Willoughby's [[Legends of Myrken Wood - Sabinus Willoughby|''Legends of Myrken Wood'']], the modern order of the Church of Tubbius stems from the worship of the nature god, Ploav, who was revered by a druidic community in central [[Amasynia]] approximately five centuries ago.  The final leader of this group, a man named [[Treadwells_(Family)#Tobias|Tobias]] from nearly three centuries past, proclaimed that the full name of their deity was "Ploav Tubbius" and that the god was slowly starving to death without a proper understanding of what He wanted from them.  [[Tubbius|The Great God]] not only demanded the obvious acceptance of their beliefs about natural growth through the following of their existing rituals and services, but He wanted evidence of their devotion shown through corpulence as well.  By gorging themselves on their divinely granted harvest bounty, they were showing outwardly to others not only that [[Tubbius]] was blessing them beyond what they needed but also that they were physically, obviously different from all others.  The new practices caught on quickly, and, within five years, the formerly frail Ploavians were fully faithful, rotund Tubbians given over to their new beliefs.
-== Current Beliefs and Internal Misconceptions ==
+== Current Beliefs ==
 The teachings of [[Treadwells_(Family)#Tobias|Tobias]] both revived and reorganized the faith, expanding its reach to include the deities [[Marta]], [[Libri]], and [[Porcus]].  The Tubbians believe simply that [[Tubbius]] is husband to [[Marta]], the [[Amasynia|Amasynian]] mother goddess; father to [[Libri]], the deity over scholarship; and owner of [[Porcus]], the [[Amasynia|Amasynian]] mother to pigs.  They also believe that their [[Tubbius Regalis]]--the ultimate head of their order--is the human conduit of [[Tubbius]] Himself.  Finally, despite the focus on gluttony and self-importance, the Tubbians are commanded in their scriptures to help see to the needs of their communities out of their excess that they receive.
-The chief concerns come with their ideas of how to include [[Marta]], [[Libri]], and [[Porcus]] into their belief system. These inclusions are riddled with mistaken beliefs that have gone uncorrected over time; all but one of the Tubbians are unaware that the relationship of these deities has changed over time.  Much of the faith secretly originates with [[The Glutton]], an omnivorous monster married to [[Marta]] who has indirectly manipulated potential followers over time, appealing to humans and fairies alike through the less threatening appearances of [[Tubbius]] and [[Porcus]].  His exposure as [[Porcus]] and replacement of Ploav as [[Tubbius]] saw [[The Glutton]] gain believers, and, in time, he also absorbed [[Marta|Marta's]] life, responsibilities, and role into his own self.  Therefore, where the Tubbians think they venerate four gods, they truly only worship two--[[The Glutton]] and his son, [[Libri]]--without knowing the truth.
+Until February 13, 2022 (A.R. 222), the reality was that [[The Glutton]] was secretly a multiple-bodied deity, being the core in a series of divine characters including [[Tubbius]], [[Marta]], and [[Porcus]]. This has all been set to rights, with the Glutton losing a great deal of its own power as its existence was fragmented into its component selves, with Tubbius, Marta, and Porcus each going their own ways and dominions. Now, the Church of Tubbius truly is only the Church devoted to Tubbius with no other underpinnings of which they are unaware.
 == Church Leadership ==

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 Birth and death of [[Treadwells_(Family)#Tobias|Tobias]], the Church's founder.
-January 22: Feast of the Shrine of the Faith, the date in 207 [[Anno_Regalis|AR]] when Aloisius Treadwell miraculously appeared in the church at [[Orson]] and devoured an immense amount of food in under an hour before being spirited back home.  From this date on, he received direct, divine information from [[Tubbius]] until the time that [[Marta]] the Great Mother and [[Libri]] the Scholar revealed his true nature to him.
+January 22: Feast of the Shrine of the Faith, the date in 208 [[Anno_Regalis|AR]] when Aloisius Treadwell miraculously appeared in the church at [[Orson]] and devoured an immense amount of food in under an hour before being spirited back home.  From this date on, he received direct, divine information from [[Tubbius]] until the time that [[Marta]] the Great Mother and [[Libri]] the Scholar revealed his true nature to him.
 February 28 and March 10: Known as the First and Second Doubling of Food, respectively, these were the dates that the Tubbians witnessed, by the doing of [[Aloisius Treadwell]], a monumental increase in their food and drink stores.  The Second Doubling of Food held another miraculous event, as well: as before on February 23, at their Council of the Round, which was a meeting of their senior members, the Tubbians saw an immense, shimmering, obese spectral body around [[Aloisius Treadwell|Treadwell]]: a ghostly manifestation of the body of [[Tubbius]], affirming his power and his connection to the god they serve.

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 [[Furt]]: Far north of [[Myrken Wood]] on the coast, the church at [[Furt]] is a self-sufficient group of fourteen housed in a tower outside the town itself.
-Wane: Out of a town of around ninety, all are devoted faithful.  These ninety include the most prominent members of the town: Mayor Tom Kutch and his family; Edgar Bumpo the innkeeper, his wife Mabel, and their family; farmer and swineherd Manfred Blinney, his wife Lotha, and their children; and local blacksmith Ned Smith.  Because of their focus, the town houses a life-sized statue of [[Aloisius Treadwell]] in its central plaza.  Of special note is one Father George Cobble, a faithful preacher of both [[Marta]] and [[Tubbius]], a former gaunt and elderly man who has since fattened out and taken up a firm belief in the Great One.  In part due to his influence, the town has seen a rapid increase of Tubbian faithful, expanding to its current proportions from only a small eighteen out of seventy some years ago.
+Wane: Out of a town of ninety-two, all are devoted faithful.  These include the most prominent members of the town: Mayor Tom Kutch and his family; Edgar Bumpo the innkeeper, his wife Mabel, and their family; farmer and swineherd Manfred Blinney, his wife Lotha, and their children; and local blacksmith Ned Smith.  Because of their focus, the town houses a life-sized statue of [[Aloisius Treadwell]] in its central plaza.  Of special note is one Father George Cobble, a faithful preacher of both [[Marta]] and [[Tubbius]], a former gaunt and elderly man who has since fattened out and taken up a firm belief in the Great One.  In part due to his influence, the town has seen a rapid increase of Tubbian faithful, expanding to its current proportions from only a small eighteen out of seventy some years ago.  As of the end of July, 217, [[Aloisius Treadwell]] personally named Cobble as Lord Tubbian of Wane.
 [[Colmouth]]: A town on the coast between [[Myrken Wood]] and [[Furt]], the forty-six meeting here make for one of the largest of the human churches devoted to [[Tubbius]].  Colmouth is destined to be the ultimate home of the Church of Tubbius in years to come when Lord Tubbian [[Treadwells_(Family)#Harvell Urias Treadwell|Harvell "Harvey" Urias Treadwell]] assumes the Mayorship there.

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 [[Furt]]: Far north of [[Myrken Wood]] on the coast, the church at [[Furt]] is a self-sufficient group of fourteen housed in a tower outside the town itself.
-Wane: Out of a town of around seventy, eighteen are devoted faithful with others on the fringe of acceptance.  However, these eighteen include the most prominent members of the town: Mayor Tom Kutch and his family; Edgar Bumpo the innkeeper, his wife Mabel, and their family; farmer and swineherd Manfred Blinney, his wife Lotha, and their children; and local blacksmith Ned Smith.  Because of their focus, the town houses a life-sized statue of [[Aloisius Treadwell]] in its central plaza.  Of special note is one Father George Cobble, a faithful preacher of both [[Marta]] and [[Tubbius]], a former gaunt and elderly man who has since fattened out and taken up a firm belief in the Great One.
+Wane: Out of a town of around ninety, all are devoted faithful.  These ninety include the most prominent members of the town: Mayor Tom Kutch and his family; Edgar Bumpo the innkeeper, his wife Mabel, and their family; farmer and swineherd Manfred Blinney, his wife Lotha, and their children; and local blacksmith Ned Smith.  Because of their focus, the town houses a life-sized statue of [[Aloisius Treadwell]] in its central plaza.  Of special note is one Father George Cobble, a faithful preacher of both [[Marta]] and [[Tubbius]], a former gaunt and elderly man who has since fattened out and taken up a firm belief in the Great One.  In part due to his influence, the town has seen a rapid increase of Tubbian faithful, expanding to its current proportions from only a small eighteen out of seventy some years ago.
 [[Colmouth]]: A town on the coast between [[Myrken Wood]] and [[Furt]], the forty-six meeting here make for one of the largest of the human churches devoted to [[Tubbius]].  Colmouth is destined to be the ultimate home of the Church of Tubbius in years to come when Lord Tubbian [[Treadwells_(Family)#Harvell Urias Treadwell|Harvell "Harvey" Urias Treadwell]] assumes the Mayorship there.

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 [[Furt]]: Far north of [[Myrken Wood]] on the coast, the church at [[Furt]] is a self-sufficient group of fourteen housed in a tower outside the town itself.
-Wane: Out of a town of around seventy, eighteen are devoted faithful with others on the fringe of acceptance.  However, these eighteen include the most prominent members of the town: Mayor Tom Kutch and his family; Edgar Bumpo the innkeeper, his wife Mabel, and their family; farmer and swineherd Manfred Blinney, his wife Lotha, and their children; and local blacksmith Ned Smith.  Because of their focus, the town houses a life-sized statue of [[Aloisius Treadwell]] in its central plaza.  Of special disagreement in town is one Father George Cobble, a faithful preacher of [[Marta]], emphasizing her worship devoid of that of [[Tubbius]].
+Wane: Out of a town of around seventy, eighteen are devoted faithful with others on the fringe of acceptance.  However, these eighteen include the most prominent members of the town: Mayor Tom Kutch and his family; Edgar Bumpo the innkeeper, his wife Mabel, and their family; farmer and swineherd Manfred Blinney, his wife Lotha, and their children; and local blacksmith Ned Smith.  Because of their focus, the town houses a life-sized statue of [[Aloisius Treadwell]] in its central plaza.  Of special note is one Father George Cobble, a faithful preacher of both [[Marta]] and [[Tubbius]], a former gaunt and elderly man who has since fattened out and taken up a firm belief in the Great One.
 [[Colmouth]]: A town on the coast between [[Myrken Wood]] and [[Furt]], the forty-six meeting here make for one of the largest of the human churches devoted to [[Tubbius]].  Colmouth is destined to be the ultimate home of the Church of Tubbius in years to come when Lord Tubbian [[Treadwells_(Family)#Harvell Urias Treadwell|Harvell "Harvey" Urias Treadwell]] assumes the Mayorship there.

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 Orson: A four member church composed of a single family of brothers in the middle of the [[Amasynia|Amasynian]] plain.
-Chigurh: The members of this small church were ousted from their hometown by the town council following the failure of a harvest in 215 [[Anno_Regalis|AR]].  Their Lady Tubbian, Lavinia Devors, found [[Aloisius Treadwell]] at the [[Broken Dagger (Inn)|Broken Dagger]] to inform him of their predicament.
+Chigurh: The members of this small church were ousted from their hometown by the town council following the failure of a harvest in 215 [[Anno_Regalis|AR]].  Their Lady Tubbian, Lavinia Davors, found [[Aloisius Treadwell]] at the [[Broken Dagger (Inn)|Broken Dagger]] to inform him of their predicament.
 Mountain Grove: A ten member church in the forest at the base of the [[Wekslo Mountains]].  Known for disregarding the mandates of their [[Tubbius Regalis]].

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 Wane: Out of a town of around seventy, eighteen are devoted faithful with others on the fringe of acceptance.  However, these eighteen include the most prominent members of the town: Mayor Tom Kutch and his family; Edgar Bumpo the innkeeper, his wife Mabel, and their family; farmer and swineherd Manfred Blinney, his wife Lotha, and their children; and local blacksmith Ned Smith.  Because of their focus, the town houses a life-sized statue of [[Aloisius Treadwell]] in its central plaza.  Of special disagreement in town is one Father George Cobble, a faithful preacher of [[Marta]], emphasizing her worship devoid of that of [[Tubbius]].
-[[Colmouth]]: A town on the coast between [[Myrken Wood]] and [[Furt]], the forty-six meeting here make for one of the largest of the human churches devoted to [[Tubbius]].  Colmouth is destined to be the ultimate home of the Church of Tubbius in years to come due to its growing seafood and baked goods industries.
+[[Colmouth]]: A town on the coast between [[Myrken Wood]] and [[Furt]], the forty-six meeting here make for one of the largest of the human churches devoted to [[Tubbius]].  Colmouth is destined to be the ultimate home of the Church of Tubbius in years to come when Lord Tubbian [[Treadwells_(Family)#Harvell Urias Treadwell|Harvell "Harvey" Urias Treadwell]] assumes the Mayorship there.
 [[Westenford]]: Twenty-eight of the twenty-nine seated members of the [[Westenford Ruling Council]] are the active members of the Church in Westenford, overseeing the town's politics and part of its religious activities.  The final member, Doug Wiggins, is a firm believer of the [[One True Faith]].
-[[Myrken Wood]]: This location once served as the seat of the Church.  Counting [[Aloisius Treadwell]], there were fifty here until August 214 [[Anno_Regalis|AR]], when [[Aloisius Treadwell|Treadwell]] asked most of the members present to leave to return to where the Church was founded and worship there in order to avoid potentially conflict with the [[One True Faith]].  The former church building itself in [[Myrken Wood]] has been converted to an orphanage, although the deed for land and building is still under [[Aloisius Treadwell|Treadwell]]'s ownership.  Therefore, [[Aloisius Treadwell|Treadwell]] maintains his former office there with its access to the hot spring beneath the church.
+[[Myrken Wood]]: This location currently serves as the seat of the Church.  Counting [[Aloisius Treadwell]], there were fifty here until August 214 [[Anno_Regalis|AR]], when [[Aloisius Treadwell|Treadwell]] asked most of the members present to leave to return to where the Church was founded and worship there in order to avoid potentially conflict with the [[One True Faith]].  The church building itself in [[Myrkentown]] was briefly converted to an orphanage, although with the reemergence of the faithful in [[Myrkentown]] and an accompanying reopening of the church building for services, this institution again flourishes under its leadership.
 [[New Hibera]]: The Tubbian faith is royally mandated by [[Richard Aengus]] and [[Dr. Orin Barrin]], and it is thus divinely supported; [[Tubbius]] has blessed the kingdom with constantly rejuvenating food and drink, allowing all of the roughly thousand fairies there to grow very fat, very happy, and, admittedly, very lazy.  In short, the fairies of [[New Hibera]] are in many ways the ideal Tubbian faithful.

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 Given the Church's devotion to natural growth of food sources--including grains, fruits, vegetables, livestock, and swine--Church members and their families are generally highly knowledgeable of farming and raising animals and are normally well-fed to the point of exorbitance.  In most of the individual congregations, many of the members are upper-classed or are placed in important positions, making being in the Church a mark of usually high socioeconomic status.  This is especially visible in [[Westenford]], Wane, Chalmbury, and Colmouth.
-The primary symbol of the Church is known as the Rings of Tubbius: two circles, one inside the other, with the inner circle offset lower inside the outer.  These Rings are not only sewn into the fronts of the robes and undergarments that the faithful wear, but, in the cases of [[Aloisius Treadwell]] and his young son [[Treadwells_(Family)#Gideon|Gideon]], the man and boy display them as fatty, puffy circles in their bellies, there since their respective births.  In the elder [[Aloisius Treadwell|Treadwell]]'s case, these Rings have been shown to serve as a rare conduit for magical energies that are infrequently used but provide a brief, golden glow when active.
+The primary symbol of the Church is known as the Rings of Tubbius: two circles, one inside the other, with the inner circle offset lower inside the outer.  These Rings are not only sewn into the fronts of the robes and undergarments that the faithful wear, but, in the cases of [[Aloisius Treadwell]] and his young son [[Treadwells_(Family)#Gideon|Gideon]], the man and boy were born with with them and display them as fatty, puffy circles in their bellies.  In the elder [[Aloisius Treadwell|Treadwell]]'s case, these Rings have been shown to serve as a rare conduit for magical energies that are infrequently used but provide a brief, golden glow when active.  Very few other faithful have ever shown evidence of these; [[James Wilde]], former ''[[Tubbius Princeps]]'', had these Rings appear on his stomach at his initial blessing from [[Tubbius]], as has his successor, [[Langley Treadwell]].
 The singular scriptural book for the Church of Tubbius is known as ''The Folds of Tubbius''.  A slim volume combining prose, hymns, poetry, and religious laws, it dictates displaying ultimate obedience to farming practices of many kinds, celebrating the harvest, and enjoying the gluttonous desires of the flesh meant to accompany life as a Tubbian.  Originally written down by [[Treadwells_(Family)#Tobias|Tobias]] as the product of divine inspiration, the book itself has been copied and passed down many times over.

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 The primary symbol of the Church is known as the Rings of Tubbius: two circles, one inside the other, with the inner circle offset lower inside the outer.  These Rings are not only sewn into the fronts of the robes and undergarments that the faithful wear, but, in the cases of [[Aloisius Treadwell]] and his young son [[Treadwells_(Family)#Gideon|Gideon]], the man and boy display them as fatty, puffy circles in their bellies, there since their respective births.  In the elder [[Aloisius Treadwell|Treadwell]]'s case, these Rings have been shown to serve as a rare conduit for magical energies that are infrequently used but provide a brief, golden glow when active.
-The singular scriptural book for the Church of Tubbius is known as ''The Folds of Tubbius''.  A slim volume combining prose, hymns, poetry, and religious laws, it dictates ultimate obedience to farming practices of many kinds, celebrating the harvest, and enjoying the gluttonous desires of the flesh meant to accompany life as a Tubbian.  Originally written down by [[Treadwells_(Family)#Tobias|Tobias]] as the product of divine inspiration, the book itself has been copied and passed down many times over.
+The singular scriptural book for the Church of Tubbius is known as ''The Folds of Tubbius''.  A slim volume combining prose, hymns, poetry, and religious laws, it dictates displaying ultimate obedience to farming practices of many kinds, celebrating the harvest, and enjoying the gluttonous desires of the flesh meant to accompany life as a Tubbian.  Originally written down by [[Treadwells_(Family)#Tobias|Tobias]] as the product of divine inspiration, the book itself has been copied and passed down many times over.
 Due to the Tubbian emphasis on size, padding, and girth, the ceremonial attire for Tubbian brothers is a multi-layered outfit composed of an outer robe, an inner robe, a light vest, a light pair of trousers, and a one-piece, buttoned up, pajama jumper beneath all else.  Matching gloves and boots accompany the outfit.  For Tubbian sisters, the outfit is instead exchanged for a flowing dress (with a hood or hat) and accompanying undergarments, although there is no prohibition on their wearing the same robes and pajamas as their male counterparts if they wish.  All of the clothes are embroidered with the Rings of Tubbius at the stomach.  Allowed colors will vary depending on the wearer's rank in the Church: hunter green, burgundy, purple, or yellow.  The highest ranking officials--the ''[[Tubbius Princeps]]'' in his purple or the ''[[Tubbius Regalis]]'' in his yellow--may wear extra garments or may wear the colors of lower stations if desired, as well.  The ''[[Tubbius Princeps]]'' wears a white sash around his middle with a purple alb and miter during church ceremonies, and the ''[[Tubbius Regalis]]'' usually wears a yellow sash, alb, and miter, and he may carry a ceremonial staff topped with a sculpture of the Rings of Tubbius.