Meriala

**Meriala the Dreamweaver** is one of The Twelve gods who make up the calendrical year. Meriala has dominion of the the 3rd month of the year during the cycle of Odem. Meriala is the goddess of joy, music and dreams. Meriala is the younger sister of Bobaran, former god of Beer and Wine.

Meriala's Akatian opposition is Thros

## Church of Meriala

The worshippers of Meriala focus on the dream world, the place people go when they dream and how to interpret its messages and eventually enter it. When people dream they either enter Meriala's plane of existence, the Rivers of Joy or Thros' Endless Lands of Solitude. Thros the spreader of lies sometimes creates false realities to corrupt dreamers and further her web of lies. Thros seeks to infringe lies upon mortals to instil doubt into Meriala's benevolence. Thros commonly crafts abhorrent visions to terrify or twist reality to corrupt the mind of dreamers while Meriala creates beautiful images of joy. Due to Meriala being mischievous and loving to prank mortals this leads to dreams being nonsensical and fantastical. While Thros as the Goddess of Lies makes the nightmares she imposes on sleepers confusing, terrifying and horrible.

The ultimate desire of many worshippers of Meriala is to enter the dream world, to experience the pure bliss of Meriala's creation. Only very few people are able to enter the dream world and those who do seldom return. Those who enter the dreamworld often appear in dreams to sleepers and can be recognized throughout their various visions. For example, you may have a dream of visiting a bakery, meeting a queen, or being chased by fairies while all the faces of the surreal people are made up of real people who escaped reality and entered the dream world like they were actors playing parts in a play. High Dreamers are the only people who have entered the dream world and have returned. Only three currently exist and they constantly flip between reality and surreality whenever they please.

## Structure

Church Ranks
 Visionary
 Somnus
 Oneiro
 High Dreamer

## 30 Days of Dancing

During the month of Meriala for every one of the 30 days in the month, a festival is thrown to honour the maiden of joy and music where everyone is expected to party, dance and enjoy themselves for the duration of the month. Each day different festivals are thrown, some small and local, while others are huge events joining hundreds of thousands of people together. The most important festivals during the month are the Dawning Dance on the 1st which marks the beginning of the festivities, and the Dreaming on the 14th which joins communities together to watch the figments of their dreams briefly become reality for the day through Meriala's powers of illusion, and the Dusk Dance which is a solemn dance that marks the end of the festivities.

1. The Dawning Dance
2. The Twilight Star
3. The Hog Chase
4. Lover's Return
5. Hill Tumbling
6. Melon Punching Day
7. Ruby Ribbons
8. Day of Ashes
9. Festival of Hadaar
10. Festival of Shalash
11. Festival of Oroka
12. Legend Day
13. Dreamer's Eve
14. The Dreaming
15. The Day of Rest
16. Drunkard's Fyre
17. Day of the Screaming Weasel
18. The Yearning
19. Piper's Day
20. Drummer's Day
21. Flutist's Day
22. Casa de Fiersa Day
23. Old Friend's Day
24. The Farmer's Dance
25. Saint Solomon's day
26. The Spiral March
27. Joyous Lights Day
28. Heroes Remembrance Day
29. Celebration of the Maze
30. The Dusk Dance

## Artifacts

### ***Daphne's Dreamcatcher***

An artifact that can turn anything a person dreams into reality as though created by a *Wish* spell.