Amor Incrementum

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Opening sermon paragraph is an extract from Kain Petrie's POI page by CutTheBirch

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"We depend on nature too, and nature chooses to let us live. We must appease her lest we be like the mosquitos who suck the blood from a cow, desperately trying to sustain ourselves while the fact that we could be swept away at any time is held over our heads. We would not be alive without nature, none of us would, and for that, we must repay her. We must give our bodies to her as she did to us and let her feed as we have so greedily done to her for our entire lives."

— Extract from a sermon of Kain Petrie

Who is Amor Incrementum?

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Born from the great Level 4 Famine of 1848¹, Amor Incrementum is a religious group focused on the worship of nature and agriculture. Starting as a small conclave in the Abandonned Office, they grew with time thanks to their peaceful nature and communion with the Backrooms as a whole, now posessing many parishes all across it.

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History

Amor Incrementum is one of the oldest groups still existing nowadays. As mentionned above, their initial beliefs were initiated in the Abandonned Office² during one of the biggest famine events that ever occurred in the Backrooms. During this tragic event, Level 4 lost almost all of its sources of food, as they stopped automatically replenishing, leaving the communities there without a way to eat, as they grew dependant from them.

While some people left the level to find a better place to live in, not everyone had the courage or the possibility to leave their home dimension. Across the communities who chose to stay, one in particular resorted to the way of old, growing their own food despite the nature of the level seemingly making the process impossible.

Of course, this didn't happen out of sheer luck. While the records of Amor Incrementum are few³, some of them mention some sort of unnamed messiah⁴ who transmitted to them the knowledge required to make plants thrive in such harsh environmental conditions, without sunlight or easy-to-access soil. Whether intentional or not, those teachings were focused on the respect of botanical life so as for it to respect and help the starving citizens in return. While the identity and life of this mysterious benefactor are lost to time, those teachings remain in what is now known as the Botanica Lexicanum, the holy book of the group.

With time, their newformed religion started to spread around even long after the end of the famine, with many independant communities growing out of a desire to enter a mutual respect with what they call the "cycle of life" of the Backrooms. Nowadays, Amor Incrementum keeps on growing, with people finding hope into their religion.

replace paragraph above with more developped history? up to today, with other groups influencing their history and allat, like EoA, Macchina, CotV, Ariane Circle…

Religion

The beliefs of Amor Incrementim lie between druidic teachings and pagan religions.

They primarily state that humans are, despite not being born there, a part of the Backrooms ecosystem (the "cycle of life"). A place that feeds and sustains them just as it grows from their corpses once their physical envelopes come back to the soil. As such, they believe humanity should respect the life of the world that allows them to live against all odds⁵.

As such, their religion mainly focuses on two parts:

• The respect toward the botanical life of the Backrooms, with many rituals and antics aimed at granting themselves the favors of the botanical life around them. Those can range from enhancing, sprouting and developping plant life within levels to gifts and cantics given to it as a mark of respect.
• The self-incorporation of humanity within the cycle of life⁶, with events ranging from peaceful events such as the burying of their deceased members to more brutal rituals such as sacrifices.

Indeed, while Amor Incrementum is a peaceful group aimed at respecting the land around and the place of mankind within it, some of their traits are still akin to sect-like communities. While they are forgiving by nature and will never attack first, they will be quick to stop heretics if they disrespect the cycle of life and their religion.

Amor Incrementum's religion is open to anyone to join and convert themselve into. Their attraction is mainly tied to their friendliness and posession of food, but many also find comfort in religion in a place like the Backrooms.

develop "mythology"?

Way of Life

Hierarchy

black robe, high ranking members? Kain for instance
yellow robes from the commoneers? ritual cloaks?

Rituals

Branches their bases + different sub-religions if existing

Daily Life

Diplomacy

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Related G.P.D. Entries

Amor Incrementum is a part of the General Public Database cooperative initiated by the eponymous group. However, as they tend to not write down about themselve, most articles mentionning their group is created either by individual wanderers or by other groups interacting with them.

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PLACEHOLDER - TO REMOVE

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https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/sarkicism-hub

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Main characters

• Level 499 (AI speadt to other levels. Not sure if they created the plants of L499 of if they just help them growing from there. Also meat plants? Ig if doesn't iff them?)
• Kain Petrie (religious nature of AI)
• Love, Aster (darker side of their religion)
• Opheliaone (idk man)
• BASE OMEGA INCIDENT REPORT - 3/21/2022 (same)
• Isla Botanica

Mentions

• Level 4
• The Office Market (they are prone to commerce and exchange, even to outsiders or people who might not respect nature as much)
• Level 8 (they can definitely be agressive if you fuck up with their sacred places)
• Slam City (same as Office Market)
• Level 881 (good relations with the M.E.G. + they have a "diplomatic delegation" (and grow Organiguns))
• Finding Paradise (kinda?) (I'll have to read it again ngl)

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Rambling to Myrand

most lore pages on site mentionning them is from Elias/Birch groupcon, which is an unfinished storyline

obviously they worship agriculture, but this worship seems to be more of a religion and less of a sect/cult (seeing the sermon of [Kain Petrie](http://backrooms-wiki.wikidot.com/kain-petrie). What I mean by this is that their religion is one of respect and care for nature and agriculture. Kind of a "fantasy elf" link to nature, where they seem themselves as a part of it, and they must worship it and not disturb or exploit it for more than they should.

They do have some cult-tendencies too tho. They do sacrifices ([Aster](http://backrooms-wiki.wikidot.com/love-aster), their partner/friend I'm not sure, got chosen for one, and they seemed quite grateful although they're still kinda scared), so they're not 100% harmless. This tendency to make sacrifices or have more "dark" sides might be what made Kain leave the cult (can't say for sure, this is implied at best).

They seemed to have grown enough for them to have bases in other places, mainly [Level 499](http://backrooms-wiki.wikidot.com/level-499), where they grow "meaty plants" it seems (kinda weird but that's the lore I guess). They also have a pilgrimage site in Level 8 (see screenshot) where they can pay respect to fungi/plants.

Rose used them in their Finding Paradise canon-ish series too, although with more of a sect vibe to it. I guess it can depend on the different outposts that might not be the same level of radical, but I guess that can be ignored if needed since Rose's series is their own interpretation of many parts of the wiki. They do wear yellow robes and clothes tho, a detail I personally like enough to mention it here.

As for unwritten lore, for the series of Elias/Birch I unfortunately can't say stuff for sure. Most parts of it are unwritten, there was supposed to be a L499 sublevel and an enigmatic entity named "burning gaia" seeing the deadlinks, but hard to say for sure what they were supposed to be unless you can ask them and they remember it. In their series Amor Incrementum attacked Base Omega for unclear reasons, making their relations with the MEG perhaps not the best, but again, very hard to say for sure. In Level 881 (courtyard of windows), the M.E.G. gave them samples of the plants found there and Amor incrementum gave them some Organiguns in exchange so this looks like the incident wasn't that bad or got settled in a way that made the two groups happy.

I personally have two pages I'm working on that mention them. One is a room in Level 4 used as a market by many groups and wanderers to sell stuff, and I will mention Amor Incrementum as selling some earthly goods like food there (the story of the creation of the market isn't really relevant to them, but they do participate to the market now that it exist). The other is a level I'm working on with Niku that is a folding point (kinda like L38) between many forested levels, that is seen as a sacred place of nature by them and the center of the universe. It's kind of their Jerusalem in terms of pilgrimage site (tho they don't live them), but they are keeping the place secret and nowadays, nobody other than them know about it until the events that occurs in the actual draft (probably occurs in ~2018 date-wise).

And… That's basically it for onsite stuff and my plants for the group. Not a lot, but there's definitely stuff you can build upon. Overall I'd say they're a group that is obviously deeply religious, but not really a sect and more as a peaceful religion, although some of their rites might be seen as more bloodthirsty or questionable. They're probably quite small, but do have some influence in other places and are big enough to be interacted with by some other groups. Their links with them are most likely better than for stuff like the FoJ (because again they are more peaceful, less of a dangerous cult), but there's a storyline where they attacked Base Omega for reasons I'm unsure about

Notes de bas de page

1. Standard M.E.G. Time estimation.

2. Which looked like a factory workhouse back then (see Level Evolution).

3. As they mainly transmit their history verbally.

4. Nowadays thought to have noclipped from current day Earth, making them a part of the Lost and Displaced.

5. Keep in mind the Backrooms and its "life" are two different things. Amor Incrementum doesn't worship the Backrooms in itself (which is mainly dull and artificial), but the botanical and fungal life within it.

6. Since they do not originate from the Backrooms, they do not believe themselve to be naturally part of it.