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Backstory

The “Stitched Father” is a colloquial name used to describe an ancient Stinonian god, of whom, we have few, and spotty, records describing his appearance and function. In the most famous depiction of the “Stitched Father”, a bas-relief in a temple south of Ariroma, he is shown holding objects resembling a large needle and bobbin of thread. This is still a speculative reading of this image, bobbins wouldn’t become common until machinery assisted fabric production, but this interpretation does align with epitaphs of the “Stitched Father” as “One who Binds”, “The Closer of Wounds” and, most common “Sower”.

The “Stitched Father” is also most commonly describe in relation to his partner, the goddess informally referred to as the “Mother of Fabric” and their child, the “Woven Child”.

Although it seems that these three deities may have originated without association, as local cult figures, they were later syncretized by regional rulership into a familial relationship that outranks any of their individual associations. The Textilian Heresy of the 15th century, which created the Textilian religion of modern day, appropriated the three deities into an iconography of fabric as a metaphor for interconnectedness. Those even slightly familiar with the religion would recognize the prayer, “Family of fiber who know what’s best, bless those who lie under your blanket with rest, For their evil is but a run, A stitch will fix, A yarn unspun. You offer all, but give us shawl, and to the warp and weft, whatever left, still we will be warm at night.”

An esoteric form of Textillianism, Noseticism claims that Stinonian imagery is so sparse because true experience of the ancient ones was intended to be kept out of plain sight. The Gods were not supposed to be seen through graven images but instead communed with in initiatory rites. These rites, which were supposedly held in ornamented caves, would take the neophyte through weeks of deprivation only to then be exposed to psychoactive substances and ritual invocation of the Stinoanian gods through prayer and specially prepared smells. Some Nosetics claim that the names of the Stinoanian gods can be recovered if these smells are ever rediscovered. Others differ by suggesting that these smells were never actually lost. Instead, a unbroken chain of secret societies has passed them along to the present day.

Stats

Smell: Hemp, Lanolin

Height: ???

Associated Stinkease: Mother of Fabric (Consort)