Relics
The Hawthorn Wreath
The Hawthorn Wreath is a crown of dried hawthorn, worn about the head by the when they descend the Maw. It is bare wood and thorn, cut and left to dry until it holds its shape.
Making
In the making, the branches are dried and bent slowly to the curve of the brow, and a gap is left in the back where threads are woven to resemble an eye. By all accounts, the rite spoken over the wreath is as important as the wood itself.
Teeth for a crown, as you dry and bend, retain my thought.
Open the eye behind my own.
Use
What it is held to do is keep the wearer's own thoughts contained, so that they don't seep and alter under the many lures of Gartua. Above all, it keeps a watchful eye on the consciousness.
Virtue
Being bestowed a Hawthorn wreath is the last step to becoming an .
