Wee Jas

Wee Jas is a Greater God of The Pantheon. She is the goddess of death and is portrayed as a woman with a long slim body, wearing elegant arcane clothing, skin red and face often resembeling a skull with the flesh pulled over it. No matter what though her eyes are always shown as two dark holes (much like the ones of a skull), for she is a blind goddess. This is shown to symbolize the blindness of death, it doesn't care who you are, when you're sands up it's your time to go. Followers of Wee Jas call themselves The Ruby Temple. Her titles include The Witch Goddess, The Ruby Sorceress, The Stern Lady, and Death's Guardian. Her favored weapon is the sickle.

Dogma
The Ruby Temple teaches that each life is like an hour glass, the sands slowly running out until your time is up. When a character dies but is brought back to life through magic, it wasn't that characters time to die...just yet. They believe that death is immensly powerful, and the moment when a soul crosses over permanently is a moment of extreme magical power. Despite the churches fascination with death it strongly opposes the creation of undead, viewing them as abominations to their Mistress' laws of death. There are, however, liches devoted to Wee Jas that see their existence as an experiment in the nature of death and magic, with the clear understanding that they must destroy themselves when they have learned as much as they can from the experience. Those who do not are hunted down as heretics.

Cleargy and Temples
Clerics and priests are most often women although men are not discouraged to participate in the Ruby Temple. Priests of Wee Jas wear hoods that include a veil to cover their eyes to identify with their blind goddess. Their robes are long and flowing and a dark red color. Funerals are the primary events overseen by followers of Wee Jas. With permission from the family a member of the church with oversee a member of the communities death, silently observing and taking notes. When the body does finally die the church also handles all matters with the burying of the body as elegantly as possible.

Temples to the Ruby Mistress include crypts and catacomphs underneath that are used to protect the bodies of the dead, usually powerful spellcasters alone get the privelliage of being buried in these crypts, with their personal magic items usually. Commoners are buried outside in graveyards.

Prayers and Oathes
Followers of Wee Jas will often exclaim "By the Ruby Lady!" or "By the sands of time!" a curse said to enemies would be "May your sands run quick."