The ancient World Goddess Vecatra has been all but stamped out.  Once, in the Age of Heroes, her cults, like a thousand others, could be found in every corner of the world, some say worshiped even by Elves, but now all that remains is a sad remnant of those long-passed days.  With the coming of Benalus, the Eschaton, and the founding of the Throne, the Church has systematically eradicated all of the old religions, but stubborn Vecatra clings to life, her ways surviving in isolated pockets.  

Rural families in isolated communities, especially in Dunland where her cult center was once located, but also in many other places the world over, still raise their children with the old words.  They teach the ancient stories, and practice the ancient values.  The Sins these pagans care for are entirely different than the Seven Sins of modern society.  They focus on the Circle, a tight-knit in-group of only those people that they have selected as their own, such as their family, their tribe, their clan, or their band.  These groups were once quite large, but are now usually just a few people, those holdouts, and others of their ways that they can find in the world.  What outsiders do doesn’t matter, and what happens to them doesn’t matter.