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The Gods and Religions of Eorine

Myth

Common Gods

  • God of Neutrality – The most neutral, and often the most powerful of the others
  • God of Law – The god considered the most good
  • God of Vengeance – A more neutrally aligned god of good
  • God of Greed – A neutrally aligned god of evil
  • God of Brutality – The god considered most evil

Common Religions

  • The Believers of the Five
    • Considered to be the most popular of the various religions, as members of nearly every race believes in the five gods to some extent.
      • Most believe in the five gods, two good, two evil, and one neutral that continue to watch over them
      • Some believe that there is one “true” god that then made four “lesser” gods that help to watch over the world.
        • Some of this belief further split into believing that the “true” god is now gone, and that the four “lesser” gods are not powerful enough to keep the world going, and that the day of judgement will be when the world is unable to continue operating
  • The Followers of the Four
    • Believe in four gods
    • Two different sects:
      • Those that believe that the gods are thinking beings, capable of empathy and will occasionally help those who ask
      • Those that believe the four gods are Lovecraftian beings, incapable of doing anything beyond following their own mysterious forces
  • Malumites
    • Those that believe that there were and unknowable number gods that created and helped shape the world in the First Age, but ultimately abandoned it after seeing the violence of their creations in the wars of the Second Age
    • Considered to be the least popular of the religions due to its bleak outlook and constant predictions of doom
  • Practicers of Ortu
    • Those that believe there are no gods other than the self made ones
    • Typically this belief is one of helping their fellow neighbor, but there are many that attempt to twist this belief into being used for their own gains
    • One of the least popular of the
  • The Cleansed
    • Those that follow the teachings of the group known as Cleansers, but are not formal members
    • They believe that it is the god’s will to hunt monsters and return them to the void
    • Most believe that once all evil creatures have been slain, the world will ascend into a perfected version of itself

Cults

  • Disciples of the Baron
    • Worshipers of a mysterious Baron that runs a small town in the Third Age
    • There is an annual celebration in which one lucky child under the age of adulthood is chosen by the Baron to ascend from the confines of menial labor into that of nobility in the city of Noskir
  • The Dragon’s Veil
    • A group of dragon worshipers that formed in the Third Age
    • They follow a mysterious character simply known as the Voice of the Dragon
    • They aim to bring back an age of Dragons like that which was in the time before history