The Six Gods and Religions
Extract from The Chyrome. This holy book describes the coming of the gods and the creation of the world.
When time was still, fire and chaos ruled. Burning worlds spun on erratic paths and suns burned the sky.
Then from the blackness of the Realm Edge a tone began to sound. It was a tone of pure note and pitch and it steadily grew in intensity. As the tone reverberated around the Realm a single point of light appeared. The light became brighter and brighter as time began to flow. When the tone and light reached their maximum, they disappeared, leaving six beings behind.
The six gods had come to our Realm.
The Gods
God of Life: Stephar
Representative Gender: Female
Representative Colour: Red
God of Death: Lukash
Representative Gender: Male
Representative Colour: Black
Day God: Litha
Representative Gender: Female
Representative Colour: Yellow
Night God: Etarl
Representative Gender: Male
Representative Colour: Purple
Earth God: Garge
Representative Gender: Male
Representative Colour: Green
Water God: Medria
Representative Gender: Female
Representative Colour: Blue
Religion in The Kingdom
When someone of The Kingdom is born, they are dedicated to a god. This dedication gives no special influence, nor does it grant social access. It merely determines which god they pray to at home.
Kingdomites are afraid of death becuase of the great unknown that is poses. The Chyrome (which isn't finished) stops while discussing the God of Death, as if the writer died mid-sentence. Most Kingdomites see this as symbolic of deaths finality.
The head of the Church, the Hyriminar, is the Kings official religious representative. Only the King can appoint a Hyriminar. The Hyriminar has to keep religion and politics. He is usually only called upon to perform weddings and funerals for the nobles in the King's court. He also acts as a leader for the monks and priests of the Church as they travel the lands, bringing hope and goodwill.
A priest lives in a church in each major town. He provides the Lord and the people with guidance, but never becomes involved in it's politics. Some priests are versed in the healing arts, as they were once monks, but most have a dedicated healer within the church to deal with the sick and injured.
A monk travels to all the minor settlements and communities that don't have a regular priest. He provides them with brief services, helps people with spiritual matters, and performs weddings and funerals. He also is a healer, versed in the ability give comfort to those who are injured, and even heal people who have minor illness.
History of the Church
The Hearers
Man first learnt of the six gods when six different people, three males and 3 females, claimed to be able to hear someone talking to them. After much investigation it was determined that they were indeed listening to six different "entities". It was many years before the realisation that these "entities" were infact gods.
When the "Hearers", as the 6 people were known, died replacements that looked very similar began to talk like they had. These 6 people were taken by the church and given a life away from distraction.
It was about 200 years later that the Hearers stopped being replaced (around 300BU), but the Church didn't want the general populace to know that the gods had left them, so they picked young people to become the new Hearers and killed their parents so they couldn't tell everyone.
The practice continues today as the Church maintains the fiction that the gods still talk to them.
The Hearers are above the Kings power. No-one can set eyes upon them, except for the highest of Church officials.
Magic and the Magi
Throughout the history of The Kingdom there have been a select number of scholars who after years of learning have managed to master the art of spell casting. These "Magi" live humble, hermit-like existances in the wilderness.
The Church forbids all types of magic as they see it as an intrusion into the domain of the gods. Even though the Church actively denounces magic and claims to be eradicating the Magi, the reality is that they haven't killed one in 100 years. Their soldiers are scared due to tales of whole squads being killed in a single fireblast.
There has been a few magi that have attempted to use their magic for good purposes like healing but supertitious townsfolk and the Church have attacke the straight away.
Most sit in there small retreats and contemplate life and wait from someone to find them so that they can teach their secrets, thus maintaining the tradition.
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