Here are my thoughts on religion.<br/><br/><strong>Saint Ovara the Honeydipped:</strong>Ovara was a sister of an established religion centuries ago, during a time of deep political division. She was a natural mediator, brokering peace between split churches and helping to transform a social landscape headed for war. Ovara was not trusted by all, and achieved sainthood through martyrdom. The details of her execution led to an association with honey, and later with honeybees.<br/><br/><strong>Ovara's Colony:</strong>Worship of Ovara spread from her convent, which after her death became a renowned apiary for the heartland. Here the contemplatives developed a peerless understanding of botany and cultivars. A cult devoted to her began to spread through the distribution of cultivar seeds to help feed the realm's growing population. Prayers in Ovara's name were soon uttered during plant and harvest, over meals and over mead as far as the meadows roamed. The first magnificent honeycomb chapels of Ovara began to appear in cities.<br/><br/>Though common folk know Ovara's Colony as providing harvest bounty and promoting health and wellness through honey and beeswax, the church retains political aims of social harmony and unification, plotting for a phase named Supercolony where evil can finally be extinguished and all people will have a purpose in life.<br/><br/><strong>The Honeybees:</strong>As Ovara's seedbringers ventured further from home and spent more time under the protection of soldiers, a culture of entertainment and theatrics developed to break tension. A club of performers called the Honeybees assumed the duties of entertaining soldiers in almost burlesque yellow and black costume, spreading goodwill for Ovara's Colony and its benign aims in the heartland. Honeybee plays involve bawdy tavern comedy, torch songs, and mild striptease, but ordinarily remain chaste. Even so, they've done much to transform the meaning of Saint Ovara the Honeydipped.