THE FIVE TESTS OF THE LEVIDIANS
The Five Tests were not invented merely to challenge future members. Each was born from a real experience that helped forge the original Levidians into a Family.
Together, they allow Levidier to understand a person’s character while giving that person the opportunity to experience the principles upon which the Family was built.
I. THE RIDDLE
In the beginning, the Levidians had no way of knowing how someone might think, decide or respond when given an opportunity. The Riddle was created to reveal what an ordinary conversation could not.
It has no correct answer and has never unfolded the same way twice. Every response shapes the question that follows, gradually revealing the person behind the words.
Even an answer given simply to impress the tester reveals something—because it is not the answer that matters, but the choice to give it.
The Riddle does not seek the right answer. It reveals the person answering.
II. THE SACRIFICE
The first Levidians built their Family by sacrificing for one another. They gave their time, shared their skills and offered resources they could not always easily spare.
Sacrifice became part of Levidian culture because the Family could not have survived without it.
The test exists to discover whether a future member understands that belonging requires contribution—not only receiving from the Family, but helping to carry it.
A Levidian sacrifices time, skill or resource.
III. THE TEST OF FAITH
Levidier was built during times when progress was not always visible and the way forward was rarely certain.
The Levidians needed faith that they would find a way through together, faith that every person was worth the sacrifices made for them, and grace when the journey did not unfold perfectly.
This test honours that history. It asks the Family and the future member to trust one another before the final outcome is known.
Faith carried them through uncertainty. Grace kept them together.
V. THE CEREMONY
The Fifth was created to ensure that a journey of such meaning ended with recognition.
The Ceremony is not another trial. It is the moment when the Houses gather to honour everything revealed through the Riddle, Sacrifice, Faith and the Fast.
It celebrates the individual’s growth, the Family’s investment in them and the trust forged between them. It marks their formal establishment within the Levidian Family and their progression into the High Houses.
The first four reveal the person.
The Fifth recognises their journey—and welcomes them home.
IV. THE FAST
Undertaken only at Formalised and above.
In the beginning, the Levidians often had very little food or money. They would divide small meals between them—sometimes sharing six wings and chips so that each person could have something.
Those moments shaped their understanding of Family: when there is little, nobody should be left with nothing.
Today, the Levidians fast beside the future member to recreate that shared experience and make a promise:
What we once did for one another, we are prepared to do for you.
The future member, in turn, demonstrates whether they will remain through abundance and hardship, when there is plenty and when there is little. Some Levidians also believe that fasting together strengthens the spiritual bond between them.
