Eight Paths
From Webbcomic
Each of the Eight Goddesses in the mythology of Webbcomic oversees a way of life known as a Path. Although priestesses and devoted individuals may follow a Path as far as it will take them, for most people in this world, a Path is more of a transitional state of being rather than rigid subculture. Also, a person can be on more than one path at a time. For instance, an athlete who competes for glory follows the paths of Art and War, although choices that athlete makes along the way may cause him to choose between the two, or another one entirely.
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The Path of Duty
The Path of Duty is the path overseen by Gale. It is the path to fulfill one's obligations at any cost. Duty is not merely about performing actions mindlessly following orders, though, but also about honor and honesty. It is about not just following rules, but to follow up on the promises one keeps, to be responsible for one's actions and at times, that of others. There is also a duty to the self, and though the self should never prevent one from being accountable to one's liege, family, nation, or trade, denying the self for ascetic or masochistic purposes is a betrayal of duty to one self.
Soldiers, government officials, judges, and kings are among those who follow the Path of Duty, but in a sense all people, from the priestesses who devote themselves to a path, to witches and necromancers who tend to have next to no dealings with the gods, are bound by duty. All paths are in essence duty, and just as without the movement of air, one cannot breathe, without duty, there is no life.
What is the meaning of life? Duty.
The Path of Art
The Path of Art is overseen by Tide. It is both art of the body and of the mind and comprises dancing, singing, sculpting, painting, and other forms of creativity expressed in an aesthetically pleasing form.
Artisans, actors, workers of crafts, and tend to follow the path of Art more than others.
The Path of Labor
The Path of Labor is overseen by Stone. This path is of work. It is not about obligation or competition but of the state of being busy, active, and dedicated.
The vast majority of people, as they are commoners and serfs, are on this path.
The Path of Consumption
It is to absorb others into oneself. It is also
Widowers, and the needy
The Path of Acquisition
Scholars
The Path of Love
The Path of Love . It is both the primal urges with which ,
Young couples, those who
The Path of War
The Path of War encompasses not mere bloodshed, but fighting, opposition, and chaos
The Path of Destruction
The Path of destruction is not a mere nihil, and it is not . It is a path of deconstruction and study of world through the inevitable -- the decomposition of what. Through this, knowledge