Mantling

**Mantling**, known in Orcish as "Ogablesa," is a process that acts as the uniting force in all the religions in the Adwerism family, acting as a core tenet and philosophical idea. Though the actual implications behind the process are unclear and vary from person to person, the common belief is that a person can attempt to claim themselves as a figure of the past, making the argument that the person Mantling and the person being Mantled are, in fact, the same person on all accounts. Fundamentally the same in various different regards.

## Beliefs

The general belief of Mantling is that a person, with great effort, can come to a realization that they are the exact same as a person who existed years ago. Unlike reincarnation, the process of Mantling ignores the idea of mortality and death, and does not at all address the soul. Some say that, instead, Mantling is the complete absorption of a person's deed, presence, and personality, consuming and processing these until they are, in effect, the complete same person. Though some sects of the Adwerism family view this as similar to reincarnation or a replacement of the soul, some of those who have Mantled someone said that their soul, mind, and body, were the exact same as the person being Mantled.

It's unclear who a person is allowed to Mantle. Trasconism says that any person, alive or dead, or of any race, can be Mantled; while sects which have had repeated contact with the philosophical doctrines of Senlo Dei and the religions under its branches instead say that a person can only Mantle someone who has already died, or someone who is of the same race, or only an ancestor.

Regardless of the specifics of the process, the process of Mantling is personal; and the realization of Mantling someone may only come from a person's complete understanding, or destruction, of the ego. The end goal can be stated, but the process cannot be taught.

## Results

### Success

Due to the personal nature of Mantling, it's often to difficult to tell if someone has mantled successfully as, in the common beliefs of Mantling, they should not change their outward appearance or personality in the slightest, as a person who attempts to realize Mantling should already be the person they are attempting to Mantle. However, shamans and others who are close to the world of magics can notice that a person who has successfully realized their Mantle is neither alive, dead, or undead.

### Failure

An unsuccessful Mantling will change the person who was attempting it. Often, a person who fails to realize their Mantling will be driven into an incredible madness, with many reported cases of people becoming animalistic and wild, or being driven into deep depression, mania, or, in the most extreme cases, suicide.

### Sargan

A priest of the Yakta, Sargan, once attempted to realize a mantling for the ancient figure known as Wanah Targah. During this process, Sargan registered as neither alive, dead, nor undead, but his Mantling was typically regarded as a failure. He spoke in prose and in various ancient Orcish tongues, would breathe smoke, and was able to grab and hold onto fire, and use it to move stars. He would constantly argue to himself in four different voices, and knew magics that he had never been taught. Eventually, he was driven into such an insanity that he spontaneously set on fire, and then became a statue made of ice that has, over a millennia later, not yet melted.

It's often interpreted that, for the time of his Mantling, he was both Sargan and Wanah Targah at the same time.