Victori

**Victori** are historical humans the Gefendur church has recognized as having completed/been removed from their reincarnation cycle to live with the gods. Vaosa is the Ssaelism adaptation of the same concept, being figures the church has declared as having found Sonum Ssael, and the earliest Vaosa were Victori mentioned in Ssaelit scripture.

## Overview

### Gefendur Victori

In Gefendur beliefs "Victori have been freed of mortal reincarnations and dwell Outside the world with the Twins. Sometimes they reenter the world to help people in need, or they plea directly with the gods to answer a certain prayer or intercede on someone’s behalf. Victori were heroes in life, or figures of great renown."

Some of the folk figures of Kasslyne history to be named Victori include "Dauph, master of a huge barley farm around 800 years [prior to Book I] who poisoned his crops in order to kill a thousand-legged giant that every week would scuttle from its burrow, across Dauph’s lands, and into the nearest city to wreak havoc. [...] Paulina, a Gefendur priestess who had hidden away the twin children in her care from a gang of cultists out to rescue them. Even under torture she wouldn’t reveal where they were, and so they violated and killed her. Another Victori, Celestine, kept the children in her care alive during a famine by first feeding them her pet owls and hound, and then amputating her own legs for them to eat." "Gefendur is older, and hence weirder. Victori Leofard had a giant schlong that he pierced with an efheby fang so it would do his bidding independent of him. It would come to life, detach, and fight at his side." More modern figures with heroic and famous enough exploits that line up with the church's interests are also declared Victori after their deaths.

"Kasslyne used to be a much more religiously diverse place. Some of the Vaosa/Victori themselves probably were never actual real people; they were tribal deities covertly worked into the conquering religion by generous missionaries, or by covert forced converts. The Gefendur have annihilated hundreds, maybe thousands of faiths over the centuries."

### Ssaelit Vaosa

"[T]here are a number of people in Ssaelit canon who are presumed to have found Ssael. These are called the Vaosa. When Duane exclaims: “Anteit Vaosa!” they’re who he’s referring to. The Vaosa lived most excellent and heroic lives in pursuit of the glory of the Temples, or Alderode; were grand warriors or scholars or even particularly heroic mothers (Ssaelism puts a lot of stock in mothers); and the Temple proclaimed them to have reached Ssael’s side upon their death.
Many Ssaelit treat certain Vaosa like personal Saints and beseech them for blessings. Lots of cities and schools named after them, and a few books of Ssaelit Scripture were penned by their hand.

"Northsongs [...] includes a number of Gefendur Victori as being among the “Dissatisfied Dead” who allied with Ssael and helped destroy the Twins. They got in on the ground floor of the religion, so to speak, and the Temple recognizes them as the original Vaosa.
New Ssaelit converts at the time loved this part of the tale since they got to hang on to a bunch of beloved figures from Aldish history, but staunch Gefendur forever afterwards despise it. After all, the Ssaelit were declaring that some of the holiest figures from the Gefendur religion had betrayed the gods and killed them! Talk about blasphemy."

"The [Ssaelit] Temples don’t like too much talk of the Vaosa (or Tirna), and tell people to concentrate on Ssael. Duane would tell you never to pray to a Vaosa because you’re potentially weakening yourself if they respond, denying yourself of the value of the struggle and your own success. It’s generally thought Ssael doesn’t like when Vaosa interferes, even if he doesn’t stop it.
Still, people get desperate, and they do what makes them feel best. It’s easy for priests to tell you to fight your own battles but if your ten year old is dying of some wasting illness just who are you supposed to fight?
Vaosa and Victori are everywhere anyway. You can find shrines to them, buy totems, see them in plays, read pulpy books about them reincarnating as recent heroes, and even see them in Tainish etymology. Roura is “heroic”, after Vaosa Rou, who died in battle and is beloved by soldiers. Dalmara means “humble” after Vaosa Dalmas, an ancient artifacter to Aldish Kings. Lost souls are called deverosell after Vaosa Devereux who threw himself overboard and was lost during a storm at sea while saving a fallen cabin boy."

## Known Victori

* **Victori Arbert**
* **Victori Hersch**
* **King Rortide** (Aldish fraternal church only)
* **Victori Paulina**
* **Victori Celestine**
* **Victori Dauph** (also adopted as Vaosa by the Ssaelit)
* **Victori Leofard**

## Known Vaosa

* Vaosa Dauph (adopted from Gefendur Victori)
* Vaosa Medley
* Vaosa Rou
* Vaosa Dalmas
* Vaosa Devereux
* Vaosa Giriaume

## Notes

### Q & A answers on Victori and Vaosa

* Lesser gods, Spirits and Legends
* Reincarnations of Vaosa and Victori
* Ssaelit Official Doctrine on Vaosa
* Gefendur Reincarnation and Favoritism of the gods
* Escape Clauses and Entry Clauses
* Avatars or Prophets?
* Overlap and Some Legends
* Overlap and Alderode
* Overlap Recall
* Would the Church Consider Declaring Emil a Victori?

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