The Believers of the Source (PWH)

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Primes: Take no offense if a Godsman refers to you as a "throwback" or a "bottom rung." Unlike many folks in the Cage who snub the Clueless, the Godsmen do so with no malice (usually). 
See, the faction thinks that the multiverse is one big proving ground. Every sod on the planes is being tested—that's the whole point, the end sum of life. Why? To see who's worthy of ascension. A sod who fails a test is reborn after death to do it all over again. If he really messes up, he might even come back as something worse off than before—for example (as some say), a prime.
A cutter who passes his life's test, though, is reborn into a higher form for another test, and so on, and so on, until he finally reaches the end. Facto! Ambar claims that such lucky folks find a better place and a whole new existence that we can know nothing about. 
The faction got its name because they think there might be a higher force that's doing all the testing. It's not the deities, the powers that we know. No, the gods are being tested, too—they're just farther along than most folks (a belief that shares a lot of common ground with the Athar). Fact is, the very existence of the powers should lend strength to the hearts of struggling sods everywhere. Factioneers say that everyone has the potential to become gods by passing enough of the cosmic tests (that's why the Believers are often nicknamed the "Godsmen"). 
'Course, it ain't as easy as all that, mainly because no one knows what we're all being tested for—ultimate good? Total evil? Complete selflessness? The Godsmen don't know. Once they figure it out for sure, they'll all be on the road to ascension. But in the meantime, they're slowly tempering their spirits like steel, learning with each new experience—whether it's a success or a failure. 
In keeping with this idea of tempering steel, the Godsmen run Sigil's Great Foundry, smithing and forging all manner of metal items in huge furnaces. Anyone who wants to join the faction's got to put in sweat time working at the forges—more as a test of their character than anything else.
A namer is then assigned to a mentor, who teaches faction doctrine and conducts tests of his own devising. Because aH Godsmen have varying views of what the final achievement is to be, mentors teach the candidates different lessons and test them for different strengths.
In the end, the Believers of the Source have one of the most diverse faction memberships. At the heart of it all, they believe in the ultimate worth of every individual, from the lowliest cutpurse to the noblest blood—and that includes primes. As a result, they're a hard bunch to dislike. 
- from A Prime's Guide to Sigil
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