Statue of the Sainted Mother | Church of the Acarid

LORE & BACKGROUND

Once the spiritual heart of the Church, the statue of the Sainted Mother depicted her seated in quiet strength, cradling a child as pilgrims knelt at her feet. Candles burned day and night, offerings of wax, fruit, and cloth piled at the base of the shrine.

When the Church fell, the statue did not escape ruin. The Mother’s head crumbled from her shoulders, her arms and breast overrun with parasites that cling and pulse where the child once rested. What had embodied comfort and protection became a broken witness to desecration.

In a grim symmetry, her ruined form mirrors the Broodmare far below, whose swollen silhouette echoes the Mother’s pose in grotesque parody. Faith and infestation now share the same shape, bound together by tragedy and belief misdirected.

The statue remains a powerful relic of what the Church once was, and a silent reminder of how easily devotion can be hollowed and reshaped.

Statue of the Sainted Mother | Church of the Acarid

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