Ieoaner School of Werran Thought

The Ieoaner school of Werran thought, founded by Ieoan of Roszon in the 3rd century VC. The school advocates that all foreign deities are demonic entities masquerading as gods in order to deceive their worshippers into granting them power and influence. The school of thought has become popular throughout the north of Juhnvechteya over the last century. 
The thought that foreign deities are demons is not a new concept; the Reborn of Esosfalu has believed that foreign gods are demons for many centuries, though the concept is new to the lands north of Brankony. 
Ieoaner thinking has found considerable sway throughout northern Juhnvechteya, and the works of Ieoan have been widely copied and exported along the roads and seaborne trade lanes that pass Syhtia, finding influences as far afield as Agan.
Ieoaner thought provides yet another, more just, reason for the constant conversion of heathens to the Werran faith: those demons which manipulate the honest folk who worship them seek o my to increase their own influence, they do not care for their subjects. Thus, conversion by the book or the sword is a moral duty of the Church, it is to save the peoples of the world from that which they unknowingly empower.
This is most clearly stated in his first work, Arkhas and the Demons. It begins with a short recount of his life and what drove him to theology, most critically his experiences battling the savage Syhtians in the marshes. 
Having direct experience with the tribes, having witnessed several of their secret rituals, and having seen the devastation they wreak upon Vechtese villages in Syhtia, Ieoan came to the epiphany that those gods the tribes worship are not deities, but rather demons who wish only for the destruction of that which is peaceful and that which is holy in the world. This view is reiterated and elaborated upon throughout the work and his subsequent essays. 
The Syhtian tribes, whose faith and people were the subject of his initial ridicule, denounced his works and his beliefs soon after he began proclaiming them from the Marktstrass square in Roszon. He was initially shunned by the people of the city, both Vechtese and civilized Syhtian, whom had a cultural understanding with one another at the time, but his philosophy began to find followers further afield, who began to flock to Roszon to hear his opinions. 
These foreigners would bring trade and business to the town, and merchants would begin taking advantage of this, forcing the resident Syhtians to either convert or leave the town altogether. Eventually the city’s council banished all pagans from the city’s walls to further increase Werran pilgrimage to the city, resulting furthering the tension between the cities and the Syhtians which exists today.
Category:Religion in Juhnvechtea