The Madates of Earth

The Madates of Earth The Decorated Sun says All Are Of Gaia. Know that Kinfolk, humans, reptiles, and other Awakened are here for a reason. You have a place, and so do they. Respect the Crowning, listen to the Concealing, follow the Gathering. Leaders may be questioned, but authority does not come from winning a fight. Honor the Eighth Sun, who enable the Mokol6 to survive. Make sure that all resources, including food, are distributed fairly and in proportion. Heal the sick, help the wounded, allow the dying spirit to pass on into Gaia’s Memory. Reality: The Mokol6 do not understand why many Garou treat their Kinfolk so brutally. Mokol6 are much more concerned with having children than the Garou, but their attitude is that mating is there to be enjoyed. The Zhong Lung are the most dedicated to the “play of clouds and rain,” and have made endless “pillow books” and “springtime pictures” about the art of love. Both same-sex and oppositesex love have their places in Mokol6 society, although opposite-sex Mokol6 couples must not exist. The decimation of the MokolC in the Wars of Rage means that the old hierarchies are gone. Few clutches have a Crowning, and many MokolC are without a clutch at all - they are born to ‘clutches’ of Kinfolk who wait lifetimes for a true Mokol6 to come. Food and money were distributed more equally in the old days when human Kin were tribal. Nowadays, as social inequality worsens in the tropical nations where they live, observance of this Duty is fading. Mnesis helps a great deal in making this Duty real, however. MokolC know the pain of childbirth, the bite of hunger, and the lash of slavery. Almost all Mokol6 have Mnesis from members of the opposite sex, from humans and reptiles. This makes them unusually understanding (as residents of the World of Darkness go). The Eclipsed Sun says Remember. Sun made you Mokol6 for a reason. You are part of the Memory of Gaia. Don’t forget this. Reality: Many Mokol6 are too busy fighting for their lives to worry about Gaia’s great plan. However, their mere existence and the perpetuation of the Dragon Breed are enough to assure that Gaia has a Memory. Suchid Mokok have deed names, similar to those of the Garou. Names can be simple or complicated and can be earthy or very religious. Examples include Moss, the guardian of the Dismal Swamp, Stands Against The Tide, a warrior from Indonesia, and Winter Cannot Conquer Him, leader of the Mokol6 clutch in Detroit. Names can also refer to ancestorsor describe the Mokol6 (“Cinnamon-In-His-Light”) . Homids have a name appropriate for the land of their birth, and usually end up taking a MokolC name at their First Change. Often they keep their human name for all but the most formal functions, as human names sound silly in the Dragon’s Tongue. For gathers and courts, a Mokol6 introduces herself by name, clutch and sun auspice. Noonday: Us The Madates of Earth The Mokok of the East, the Makara and Zhong Lung, adhere to the Mandates of the Emerald Mother, the hengeyokai law. These rules are somewhat different from the Duties, but are based on the same principles. Shirk Not The Tasks Which Have Been Given You tion, and they should not desert belief in a future “workers respect for the land and its creatures, including Kin. The Makara and Zhong Lung both cherish human and reptile Kin and work closely with them. With Kinfolk help, they also work to keep up t Let Mercy Guide You In Our August cendants. There must be ar Not Upon Human Nor Beast This forbids excessive hunting as well as exterminate any nation or tribe. As the Mokol philosophers than fighters, this has never been diffi This simply means that wallows worth the lives of the Vasanta and T them. However, any Mokol6 would fig Warriors when defending a sacred site. And so I was led from a word to a word, From a thought to another thought. The Hzvamzl Jeffo spoke. “I always knew I was Gumagan. Mum talked about it to me, like anything else about us, like about the Dreamtime. I was about five when I knew she didn’t talk about it to anyone else but Morwangu. She didn’t talk to the welfare lady or the preacher.” “Yeah, I was like that. My mother, Cassandra, was a Fury, and she raised me at the caern and I knew lots ofGarou. But we couldn’t talk about it to anyone else. But a lot of Garou are lost till they change. Their parents aren’t knowing Kinfolk.” “Mokok can’t be like that. We have the Memory. Now, y’ can be Mokol6 but not know another. Some go their whole lives like that. No clutch, sometimes just Kinfolk. Sometimes Kinfolk keep the wallow long, hoping for a Mokok to be born. That’s what happened to Wolaru’s mob, our mob. Morwangu was born when only one granny was left who’d known Standing Stone and Wolaru.” “Wow. They remember that long, and keep everything the same?” “Even Kin are good at remembering. They don’t have The Memory, that’s all. You never get it till you get the djunggawon, the man-making.” f Afternoon: Dragon Making “What’s that?” “When I first became my dragon-self.’’ “Was that your First Change? Or whatever you call it?” “Not the Change that’s the big deal - it’s dreaming it. I was, oh, I guess, thirteen or fourteen. Gone walkabout down to Jabirru with me mates and felt ashakin’. Monvangu wasn’t anywhere near, so I told ’em to go on, an’ laid down with some water.” Jeffo’s eyes were bright, focused on the Was. “Next thing, I was crawling across a mudflat, cold as a squatter’s heart. Had to find food, but I could barely move. Then Lord Sun showed His face on the land. I turned my side to him, and the crest on my back drank His light. Soon I was moving, fastest thing on the block. I took a greatfrog who was barely awake - it tasted really good.” “I woke warm in the desert, staring up at thousands of stars. There was a power in me that I had never felt before. I could reach back with my mind, through life upon life, time upon time. I was greater than myself. I was Mokol6. Monvangu found me at moonset, and then he started teaching me the old ways. It’s been a long road.”