Religion

Religion, as it is in Trinity.

History of Religion

In the beginning of the world, there were no individual deities, nor servants of them; there was only the Divine itself, to which the universe - that is, Nature itself - sealed off into what is known as the Metaphysic.

Over time, the Divine gradually worked itself into the fabric of reality, able to exert its will upon the happenings therein, albeit slowly and indirectly. The first and foremost of these channels were what are known as the True Gods - beings that were directly tied to the Divine itself, channeling the power of the Divine in an overwhelming manner.

The True Gods, however, were not limitless in power, and - in order to hide their activites from the gaze of Nature - so created minions to do their bidding throughout the world. These are collectively known as the Scions, children of the True Gods, and they came in two forms: Saints and Lucavi, terms that are recognized even today. Unable to directly gift their creations with the power of the Divine, the True Gods forged a bridge between their essences and the Metaphysic: only through faith, and faith alone, could these beings attain a semblance of the Divine power wielded by the True Gods.

However, reality did eventually turn its eye to the machinations of the Divine and its direct servitors. In the Fourth Age of the Second Epoch, known simply as The Fracture, a massive cataclysm arose that resulted in the utter and irreversible destruction of the True Gods. Only their "children," the Scions, were spared.

Unlike their servitors, the Saints and the Lucavi were not disrupted by this event; however, their power was directly tied to worship. Seeking a means to prevent the power of the Divine from waning utterly from reality, they took the ashes, shards, and splinters of the True Gods, and fashioned each fraction into a being unto itself: thus were born Angels and Daemons. These creatures retained a semblance of the power wielded by the True Gods, but it was fractional and incomplete; in the deaths of the True Gods, the sentience and free-will of the Gods had been lost. However, with these servants, the Saints and Lucavi could retain some amount of Divine power in the face of waning faith.

...to be continued...

Old Stuff

Religions are not a well-explored aspect of the world. While religions are present, they tend to take a backseat to the ever-present enmity between the forces of the Trinity of Reality.

• Active Religions
  • The Order
  • Elendism
• Dead Religions
  • Elementalism
    • Orthodox
    • Reformed
  • Fundamentalism
  • Philosophialism
• Other
  • Atheism