Bloodmoon fruit

the cult of Bloodmoon and clarification.

The Bloodmoon fruit native to the lush forested regions of the Raviel island area is a type of tree that is quite common and frequently used by native Dwili as a mild intoxicant and energy enhancer. It wasn't until the arrival of the eastern Nobles and the foundation of the more technically advanced civilizations that advanced cultivation techniques were used to refine the Bloodmoon fruit in its potency. For as long as man has roamed the central area of the land of Dwilight the drug in its milder form has been used in conjunction with certain celestial changes. A common sympton or side effect of taking the potent form of Bloodmoon is hallucinations that usually involve the Bloodstars which physically lie in the western sky. Some have attributed the fruit and star effect symbiosis to mans connection with nature and with the universe. Some have suggested that Bloodmoon and its effects are symbiosis with the changes of the Bloodstars, just as the moon will react and change the tides in the ocean, the same pull will result on mankind when his mind is sufficiently cleaned and clear to be influenced by the Bloodstars. Others merely point to a form of brainwashing and or susceptibility of suggestion while under its effects and the Sanguis Astroism Bloodstars connection is merely because of the influence the religion held over the island group area being one of the largest religions to have passed through that area on its way to Terran during the initial colonial period of the Western continent.

To this day there only a handful of people in the Dwilight world nobility to have professed to have used or experimented with Bloodmoon. There are even fewer who use it for religious ceremony. It remains in use for a fringe of Bloodmoon spirit world travellers and the lesser peasant groups of Dwilight. It still remains a mystery to many outside of Ravielian aboriginal groups. And is only very loosely connected to the church of Sanguis Astroism.