Verbena

Though modern Verbena have some similarities to Wiccans, they are inheritors of far older legacies from disparate cultures originating around the world. Regardless of their many differing faiths and customs, the Verbena share many principles in common. This includes a deep respect for the Earth and the natural order, a holistic view of people and the world as intrinsically intertwined, and the belief that power and understanding can be found by embracing life in all its passions and pains.
Of all the Traditions, the Verbena are perhaps most challenged by the changes brought to the world by advancing technology and expanding civilizations. Each member must find a way to apply the lessons and practices of the old ways to the modern world, or be seen by both mages and mortals as merely a fringe practitioner of a dying craft.
==Events==
Event/Verbena
==History==
The devastation of the Fall could have been worse. Far worse, were it not for the Verbena.
Sacrifice. Survival. Anything sacred has to be worth fighting for, worth dying for. Like their Dreamspeaker cousins, the Verbena have a relationship to the earth that some would argue is even more intimate given that they are avatars of the elements themselves. While the Dreamspeakers are connected to her spirit, the Verbena are connected to her flesh, the roots, plants, the animals, the sky, wind and water. The Verbena, view themselves as extensions of the earth.
What would you do to survive? What price would you pay? Is my will enough?
These are the questions the Verbena had to ask themselves when the bombs dropped. Hours before, they all felt it. The tension, the extreme anxiety. Something was wrong. It was a warning.
Above all things, the Verbena have always believed in working as a group. Coven contacted mother coven. Mother coven contacted Coven House and Coven House contacted the Primus.
Time passed across the psychic blood link they were joined across the Tellurian to hold back the devastation.
Then the pain began and the burns.
The Tradition as a whole was scorched black from head to toe with radiation. Many masters in an act of self-sacrifice turned to ash as if they were at ground zero. As they were commanded, the apprentices ate these ashes while they wept. After one cycle of the moon, their warriors began to appear.
The Verbena as a Tradition took up weapons and dispensed vengeance upon anyone they felt responsible for the Waste. The Verbena were among the first to enter the battle field of the Reconciliation War and the last to leave it.
Category:Faction/Traditions