Religion
Shireroth's diverse society is home to many multicultural faiths, from the Soloralism of Jasonia to the gods of Halluci to the austere religion of the Hyperboreans and the dread god Zurvan, worshipped by fanatical Babkhi in the lower reaches of the White and Blue Elwynn. But for most of Shireroth's history, the official state religion sanctioned by the Kaisers was Cedrism, which developed years ago out of a childish love for explosions and fruits and has since evolved a staggering pantheon of gods all the way from Mors, God of Death, to Hypotomoose, God of Miscalculations. The Cedrist Temple, located in Mirioth, is presided over by a High Priest (currently, Greg Russell) who has the final say in all of Shireroth's religious affairs.
In the eastern parts of the Empire (Kildare) the divergent sect known as Catologism was the most practised religion, replacing the old Soloralist faith. Many consider the introduction of this heresy to have been the precursor memetic inoculation that facilitated the Jingdaoese subversion and takeover of Kildare. This anxiety, that foreign faiths serve foreign powers, was a key driver in the Cedrist revival of the 17th Century (7th Millennium, ASC).
Contents
Cedrism
Cedrism
BO0O/\/\ism
Divine Census
Dæmonic Census
Cedrist Myth And Stories
The End Times
The Tale of B'Caw
Rrakanychan
Vampires
The Good
The Transcendi
The Gods
The Celestial Temple
Valhalla
Brrapa Lu Eraro
The Bad
The Descendi
The Dæmons
Balgurd
Dæmon Fish of Balgurd
Legions of Balgurd
The Great Swords
The Sword of Vengeance
The Sword of Fire
The Sword of Death
The Sword of Life
The Sword of Light
The Sword of Madness
The Sword of Chaos
The Sword of Wisdom
The Realms
The Mortal Realm
The Dæmonic Realm
The Divine Realm
The Planes
The Plane of Chaos
The Plane of Order
The Plane of Balance
Concepts
Reincarnation
Karma
Transcendence and the Path of Transcendence
Descendence and the Path of Descendence
Diversionary Sects
- The Sons of Mortis
- The Children of Mors
- Followers of B'Caw
- Hunters of the Stag
- The Sisters of Viviantia
- Cult of the Descendi
- The Hand of Rrakanychan
Other Religions
- Arya
- Bovinism
- Catologism
- Froyalanish Ancient Ways (considered heretical and an instrument of daemonic worship after 1651 AN)
- Halluci Envisionism
- Holy Church of the Divine Icebear
- Minarborealism (Church of Minarbor) (Note: "Although sharing much of the mythological cosmology and narrative of Cedrism, describing Minarborealism as a divergent sect of Cedrism is guaranteed to cause maximum offence amongst the faithful and should be avoided at all costs, especially if addressing a dissitor (missionary) who is, at that moment, carrying a hoe. This much I know." - Laqi Hyrrion, Ambassador to Minarboria)
- Realist Temple Church
- Soloralism
- sumurayh'Borelan
- Suthra
- Treesian Unorthodox Church
- Zurvanism