Page one of a two page comic made in Kisekae 2 featuring my character Vlasta performing the opening ceremony for a spring fertility festival of the Dívčí Národ, or Maiden Nation, a culture related to the ancient Sarmatians that later migrated into the Slavic region, whose belief system is based on a pantheon of seven goddesses, the three listed here being the ones with varying degrees of fertility aspects, plus one evil god, Oirpai, who is the source what the Dívčí Národ consider "the male taint". Out of self-preservation, the Dívčí Národ culture went into hiding around the time gunpowder was introduced to Europe, as firearms made their traditional style of warfare, which favored capture over killing their opponents in battle, much less viable. but they still exist in secret. Men born to Dívčí Národ women are treated as slaves and livestock and basically brainwashed to believe the highest purpose the can serve is to be eaten by a Dívčí Národ woman. The Dívčí Národ also eat outsider males in at least as great of numbers, but for most religious ceremonies like the one depicted here, so-called 'maiden-born males' are preferred as sacrifices. The Dívčí Národ culture is a theocracy spread over numerous 'official' nations. Lower levels of the clergy can be entered by any female with the proper training, but the upper ranks of priestesshood are hereditary offices. Vlasta, my main OC for the Dívčí Národ-verse, is the eldest daughter of the current high priestess, and being groomed to eventually take over that role, and currently acts as a state priestess, similar to how in monarchies a prince might also be the duke of some area. In this case, 'state' refers to the entire Dívčí Národ population within a given geographical nation-state, in Vlasta's case, Russia. It is in her capacity of state priestess of Russia that she is performing this ceremony. She doesn't actually speak Russian any more than I do, so presumably there's a translator helping out off-scene.

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