Church of Jergal

The Church of Jergal was a collection of clerics, monks, and specialty priests called doomscribes devoted to Jergal, the Forgotten One.

Organization
When compared to other churches, Jergal only had a small handful of living followers. Upon their death, Jergal would sometimes transform one of his priests into a mummy to carry on working for him in undeath. These mummified priests worked isolated in secluded crypts and were sometimes served by mindless undead such as zombies or skeletons.

Jergal's clergy were referred to as the Scriveners of Doom. The high priest within each temple was called the First Scrivener of Doom. Jergal's followers were evenly split between clerics, monks, and doomscribes.

All of Jergal's clergy shaved their heads and wore gray robes.

Activities
Through history Jergal's faithful held roles as morticians, scribes, and funerary workers. They kept meticulous records of births, deaths, and taxes for those whom they served.

Celebrations
The two main events for Jergal's clergy were the Sealing, performed upon each new death recorded, and the Night of Another Year, where the scriveners read aloud the names of every death recorded during the previous year.

Base of Operations
Temples dedicated to Jergal were usually stone mausoleums or dry crypts. Sentient creatures who worked within these temples aged quickly and grew weak, but never died before their naturally appointed time.

The Crypt of Imminent Death in Bezantur, Thay was one of the larger temples dedicated to Jergal.

Orders
Two orders served the Forgotten One–the Companions of the Pallid Mask and the Hand of Jergal. Both were extinct as of the mid–14 century DR.