*This career is meant to be very simple*
Nuns are women & girls who were religious monastics living together in communities sharing accommodation, meals and the duties required to sustain the complexes to sustain the nunnery. They sleep in a communal dormitory, eat in a communal refectory, and are forbidden to leave the monastery or have private property. They are also expected to relinquish their possessions, and some have their hair cut or tonsured. The rules and lifestyle within a convent or nunnery were very similar to those in a male monastery. Nuns took vows of chastity, renounced worldly goods and devoted themselves to prayer, religious studies and helping society's most needy. Many nuns produced religious literature and music as well as kept and created histographical records and are as much historians as male monks, scholars, etc. are. Nuns spent a lot of time reading, writing, and illustrating devotional books, prayer compendiums, and musical chants. They attend religious services throughout the day, including a midnight service called that could last until almost dawn. They also prayed for the souls of people who donated to the nunnery or convent. Many nuns aren't exempt from performing manual labor, such needlework and weaving in luxury textile industry or embroidering robes and textiles for use in church services. They themselves are expected to wear simple clothing, even those with slightly uncomfortable or itchy fabrics, as a symbol and self-reminder of her shunning of worldly goods and distractions.
Nuns give back to the larger community around their own through charitable work, especially distributing clothes and food to the poor on a daily basis and giving out larger quantities on special anniversaries. Besides giving out alms, nuns often acted as tutors to children, they looked after the sick, helped women in distress and provided hospice services for the dying. Nunneries thus tended to be more closely related to their local communities than male monasteries were and nunneries were often actually part of urban settings and less physically remote places. Nuns are perhaps much more visible to the secular world than their male counterparts.
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Levels
- "Novice": Also known as a postulant or a candidate, you are either a girl in your mid-to-late teens your parents sent to a nunnery because they family had such a multitude of daughters that marrying them all off was an unlikely possibility or you an older woman looking to settle down to a contemplative and secure retirement. Perhaps you simply wanted prepare yourself for the next life before time runs out. In a year or so, you will be ale to take your vows and become a full nun. Hopefully, you have the spiritual fortitude to stick it out! For now, you perform much of the same work as nuns but relatively keep your own supervising nun.
- “Nun”: You have taken your vows and live your life as part of the larger nunnery.
Branches
- “Abbess”: A nunnery run by an abbess.
- LV1 -- "Obedientary Nun": You are a senior-level nun and a lesser official who the superior appointed to assist in the running of the convent.
- LV2 -- "Claustral Prioress": You assist the abbess in government of the abbey. You rank below her, but give her and your own orders to senior nuns.
- LV3 -- "Abbess": You have absolute authority and are likely a widow with some experience of managing your deceased husband's estate before you joined the nunnery. You're assisted by a prioress and a number of senior nuns (obedientaries) who you or others gave specific duties.
- “Prioress”: A nunnery run by an prioress.
- LV1 -- "Obedientary Nun": You are a senior-level nun and a lesser official who the superior appointed to assit in the running of the convent.
- LV2 -- "Prioress": You are the superior of an independent or conventual priory, thus the leader of an order of nuns.
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Runs from Child to Elder.
Married or engaged sims cannot join this career!
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Things NEEDED:
Lot51's Core Library
You MUST have the Trait "Worship of the Watcher" trait from Lumpinou's Rambunctions Religions to access this career.
ALL THREE CAREERS (Nun, Monk, Clergy) PLUS my Aristocrat/Royalty Career pack MUST BE PLAYED TOGETHER TO GET THE BASTARD FEATURES
Tools Used:
Translations I Know Of:
barbie_agiota (Discord) Brazilian Portugese [included in package already]
