Clergy of the Twelve

[Zohar_Lahar]

So in the various city-states, I have noticed:

-Order of Nald'Thal in Ul'dah, including its legislature(?)
-The Ishgardian Orthodox Church (Halone) used to run the city-state as a theocracy
-The Fists of Rhalgr were a big deal in Ala Mhigo until the purge
-Stillgalde Fane and the seedseers seem be indirectly a Nophica order

But I notice Limsa Lominsa does not appear to have a Llymlaen religious order (it's rather secular). Likewise, other members of the Twelve lack visible religious groups or priest(esse)s in Eorzea, despite Azeyma and Menphina's association with the catgirl clans.

Any idea on this? At least for Thaliak, it can be surmised any such order would be at Sharlayan old world.

[FJerome]

Funny enough we literally got part of the answer for this today, from the pictures people attending the 14 hour broadcast took of the Lore Book preview.

First picture of the second sec of pics, bottom left corner.

As one might expect for a maritime city-state, Lominsans revere Llymlaen, watcher of the seas and goddess of navigators. True believers make pilgrimages to the [???] of the Navigator before they sail, and [???] their safe [??? ??? ???]. The worship of Lymlaen [??? ??? ???] a loose collection of local beliefs, [???], and thus cannot be thought of as a formal religion. Indeed, the Navigator has no grand temples nor clergy to Her name in Limsa, save the odd [ . . . ?????????????]

[Enkidoh]

Azeyma does have some kind of organized clergy - a priest of Azeyma named Swaehylt appeared in both 1.0 and ARR for a couple of sidequests (curiously for a devotee of Azeyma, he's a hellsguard roegadyn!) - in 1.0 he was in Gridania and actually sends you off to hear confessions from other npcs who are also Azeyma worshipers, and in ARR he is still sermonizing, this time in Camp Drybone about how the Calamity was supposedly Azeyma's wrath on the 'sinful Eorzeans'. Which is pretty ironic that he's decided to set himself up right next to a place of worship for the Order of Nald'thal (the Church of Saint Adama Landama)!

Either way, an actual physical church for worship of Azeyma is never shown - given she's the goddess of the sun, it's entirely possible worship is deliberately done outside in sunlight as part of her worship, rather then being cooped up inside a dingy building. But that's just my speculation so take that with a grain of salt.

Other than that, I do recall reading about Ala Mhigo's backstory in regards to the 'King of Ruin' Theoduric who in the last few years of his reign, actually outlawed the established Ala Mhigan religion of Rhalgr the Destroyer and instead forced the entire city to worship only Nymiea the Spinner (in fact, I'm pretty sure he outlawed worship of all other members of the Twelve, only declaring the Goddess of fate as the 'true god').

Needless to say, his subjects did not take kindly to this (it was one of the causes behind Ala Mhigo's brief civil war which resulted in Theoduric being toppled, paving the way for Gaius and the XIVth Legion to move in and take over). But that's another story.