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There are eight major faiths in the known world, though all but two agree on how the world was created and by whom. The main differences between the faiths are mainly focused on what happened (or didn't happen), in the millennia after the creation of the world or else the reasons the world was created in the first place. Though religious wars between the faithful of specific deities are relatively common, war over differing faiths tends to be rare. The notable exception is the irreconcilable differences between the Imperial Ecclesia and the Koramian Heresy, with both sides bent, sometimes martially so, on eradicating the other. | There are eight major faiths in the known world, though all but two agree on how the world was created and by whom. The main differences between the faiths are mainly focused on what happened (or didn't happen), in the millennia after the creation of the world or else the reasons the world was created in the first place. Though religious wars between the faithful of specific deities are relatively common, war over differing faiths tends to be rare. The notable exception is the irreconcilable differences between the Imperial Ecclesia and the Koramian Heresy, with both sides bent, sometimes martially so, on eradicating the other. | ||
==Aebasan Orthodoxy== | ==Aebasan Orthodoxy== | ||
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==Animism== | ==Animism== | ||
[[:Animism]] | [[:Animism]] | ||
Revision as of 16:08, 23 March 2010
There are eight major faiths in the known world, though all but two agree on how the world was created and by whom. The main differences between the faiths are mainly focused on what happened (or didn't happen), in the millennia after the creation of the world or else the reasons the world was created in the first place. Though religious wars between the faithful of specific deities are relatively common, war over differing faiths tends to be rare. The notable exception is the irreconcilable differences between the Imperial Ecclesia and the Koramian Heresy, with both sides bent, sometimes martially so, on eradicating the other.
Aebasan Orthodoxy
The Aebasan Orthodoxy is one of the three dominant human faiths and arguably the largest of the three, comparable only to the Imperial Ecclesia in numbers of worshipers. The Aebasan faith is primarily practiced across the breadth of the continent of Gallorea, though most High Temples are located among the cities of Aebasa. The central theological difference between the Aebasan Orthodoxy is that, some time during the 2nd Age of Man, Lord Ptharos stepped down as King of the Gods because he realized his own selfishness and tyranny had resulted in great hardship on Creation itself. He was replaced by the Celestial Council, an essentially democratic governing body of the gods, which he remains as an adviser to. As a result, democratic governments and thought are much more dominant on Gallorea than on either Aurea or Duria. Within the Aebasan Orthodoxy, Phlegethon (god of tyranny) is the primary Adversary, with Dagon reduced to the role of an almost comical trickster-god.
