Efteta’s Impact on Piracy

Information

Class: Report
Wc: 622

Publishing

Aut: Aei yla Riselzh
Dt: 601 A.T.
Ogn: Sellsword

Related Links

• Efteta
• Pirates

The specter of an Ontautt looms over the onslaught of pirates spilling from the Pale Shores, a representation of everything these Avotoc pirates know and place in high regard. In the same way that all pori come from Porrair, these pirates and all Avotoc come from Davoto. Also known as The Gatekeeper, Davoto, contrary to the assumptions of many pori, is not a passive, lenient Ontautt. No, he is an instrumental force and the worship of him drives Avotoc to their overrepresentation among the pirate population.

Davoto was the third of the Eight to be created, expressly for the purpose of death. Before Davoto, life was running rampant and his creation solved a deep need within the universe as populations started outpacing their natural resource supplies due to the abundance of life. His Sentient Species, that Avotoc were created for similar manner, to help the deity dispose of the bodies he separated from souls. In this advent of Piracy the Avotoc have found something similar in separating the body from the soul: separating the wealth from its owner. In this comparison, Davoto views the physical corporeal form as distinguishable from the soul which continues in some regard without a vessel, and the pirates view the wealth (whether currency, or item(s) of value) as distinguishable from its rightful owner. Now that the Avotoc have expanded in population more than the role of gravekeeper requires, they have found similar work to Davoto to occupy themselves with.

The Avotoc are bolstered in their connection with Davoto by a religion called Efteta. Their main worship is called Driovoc and is centered on the core pillar of Davoto not being a benevolent deity. They purport that all should fear the Ontautt who can not only kill, but separate a soul from the body entirely. It is easy then to see a through-line from their worship of a malevolent deity capable of wanton violence and the violence they wield to fulfill their yearnings for other’s wealth and property.

One of the many entities the Ontautt Davoto separated himself into is Sca, purportedly an Avoc who served to watch over the graves, letting Davoto know when a body had fully decomposed so that the soul once in it had no more attachment to existence and ushers it into a new body. This forms the basis of their belief in a system of reincarnation, where a soul can find a new body after death. This belief propels them to their violent pursuits – what use is personal safety when your body can be shed and replaced upon death? What use is death if your soul transcends into a new body? Avotoc are not afraid to die, to end their life’s pursuits prematurely, when they know they have another life where they can pursue the same end goals until they are satisfied.

This quote, often heard from pirates indicates that not only is Davoto guiding the Avotoc on this violent path, but is actively aiding them in their pursuits:

While the Gaze leads not astray, with his protection journey underway. I make these waves in her name. May she flow the waters where I aim.

Clearly, these can only be theories until a deeper level of research has been done through the whole of Efteta and the Avotoc psyche. We find that these points of what is understood delineate the connection between the behavior observed and its religious foundations indicate that if we continue to defend without retaliation we will continue to do so, stuck in a cycle not dissimilar from that of the Avotoc. While there is not an academic or political consensus on the topic, the author notes that the correlations presented herein should be enough justification for action.