Prayer

What does Azadi prayer look like?  How is it different when you're in town vs travelling (eg on a boat!)?  Is there a call to prayer?  Ritual ablution?  Is the text of the three prayers available so we're all chanting the same thing?

Yes please! 
 

I realize the staff doesn't want to be prescriptive about a lot of things (and I get that!), but it would be lovely to have some basic touchstones to create a sense of commonality and mutual recognition among Azadis in the process of worship. Especially the daily prayers we all ought to know. 

Oooh. Yes. And are they done at specific hours etc? Which ones?

That I can answer! 

From the wiki

1. Incantation of Prayer: Prayers must be chanted to the One God three times a day: the Prayer of Awakening at daybreak, the Prayer of Full Song at noon, and the Prayer of Dreaming at dusk.

Which, due to the way time is expressed appears in game as :

4:00 - 6:00 Dawn "the hour of the promise"

12:00 Midday the hour of the scales(Sirdabi) the hour of daysong (Kalentoi -the boat seems to be on Kalentoi time?)

18:00 - 21:00 Dusk the hour of respite(Sirdab) the hour of the dove(Kalentoi)

I'd love to see some basic guidelines for worshipping for all the major faiths. Playing a very spiritually-focused character, but one that follows Nirzali, I've been curious how pagan worship in the Caliphate is different from One God worship.

There is now an Incantation of Prayer section on the Azadi wiki page! This is the gist of it here:

Although a central part of the Azadi faith, prayer at its most fundamental is a relatively simple affair. The faithful are encouraged to pray three times a day, at daybreak, noon, and evening, each of these hours being sung out with a call to prayer. Regardless of the hour, the same short verse is sung or chanted, this being the central prayer of Azadi:

The Surah of Oneness

By the Song of the One, Dreamer of all Dreams,
Breaker of bondage, master supreme

To you alone we give service and praise
Your name alone is on our lips, to you alone our song is raised

Send us the dreams of the righteous and the songs of sweet accord
And steer us clear of dark nightmare and discord.

In the light of your great name, we sing
O Annur, Dreamer of the Dream.

Prayer is offered while seated crosslegged on the ground, holding a prayer stone cupped in both hands. This stone is generally a pebble selected and carried about by the person in question, and is often chosen for the pleasing noise it makes, whether that is simply a pleasant plinking or the chiming hum of phonolite. The prayer begins wordlessly, with a drawn out hum, the al-ansijam, whose key varies according to the hour of prayer. If praying alone, the worshiper will continue this hum until they feel themselves suitably attuned to the Song, which may take as little as several seconds or as long as several minutes. They then sing the Surah of Oneness. Occasionally a few additional verses may be sung, according to the hour, the prompting of the imam leading the prayer, or the worshiper's own concerns or sentiments if they are alone. If praying aloud in the company of others, it is expected that all will coordinate al-ansijam and the singing of the Surah of Oneness, as to do otherwise would lead to dissonance. After completing the surah, each worshiper will kiss the stone while silently praising the Song. The prayer is then complete.

This constitutes the fullest elaboration of prayer, but it is not considered necessary to perform the full ritual each time. A person may simply bow their head and silently offer up the surah at the appropriate hour, praising Annur in their heart. If a prayer is entirely missed for whatever reason, it is enough to make up for it at the next hour of prayer by doubling (or if two prayers are missed, tripling) the usual incantation of the Surah of Oneness. One prayer a day is the minimum needed, but this one prayer at least must be given with full attention and with the mind, heart, and will fully fixed on the Song and the Dreamer of Dreams.