Odessuim

The Odessium Faith originates from a whole new world and was brought to Rathnir/Abexlias by a Prophet named Tannic Von Solium. The religion is centered around Odessa who is Queen of all the gods and Mother of all life
== Origins of the universe and the religions history ==
=== Short Preview ===
Odessuim is not a native religion to rathnir or eldham it comes from a far off world known by its inhabitants as Tarbarkin a brutal world with many wars and many races of people fighting for dominance but the world was destroyed by the gods due to the people of the world breaking the Demagogue, a set of rules the gods had set on the people. The gods angered, destroyed Tarbarkin but some people were able to escape the apocalypse with teleporter technology, one notable group was led by a man known as Tannic who brought two other apostles named Nyanja and Unoble to rathnir where they would live in solium a peaceful town of western Sparwood.
=== Creation of the universe ===
The gods looked over emptiness wondering if they could bring energy to this barren universe and so the gods with a combination of all their powers created an universal implosion that kicked off the beginning of the universe and the formation of many new terrestrial planet where life would begin, and billions of years passed by until. One planet that stood out from the rest, a world the gods dubbed Tarbarkin had something special which we mortal would know as life with the first life forms becoming more and more complex and many other world's starting to develop life like Rathnir, Eldham, Teraka and more. The gods decided to hold a meeting to decide what to do with this development and over the course of 200 years LCC {Lunaris Chronicon Calendar} they have came to the conclusion to leave the life alone and let it develop as destroying it may leave the universe forever barren. 5 million years after the occurrens vitae life {meeting of life} ,on Tarbarkin life continued to get more complex with creatures going from single cellular to multi cellular and more developments continue with the creatures leaving the bodies of water and onto dry land where biomes and vegetation would thrive and over 670 million years LCC creatures continue to develop but then the gods noticed that some species would develop bigger brains than the normal sheep or cows the gods saw multiple species that began to work together to create something new, civilization. many more years past and the god's wonder what were these creatures like if they were near each other well their question was quickly answered when two different tribes of humanoids began to fight over land and food, the gods seeing the brutality once again had their own meeting where they agreed to send a prophet which was the son of Odessa and Venus the two main god's, about 500 years LCC or so from the first conflict to spread peace and the word of the god's.
=== The prophet landing in Tarbarkin ===
Tannics soul was placed into a ordinary creeper that lived in a cave near a swamp and with Tannic's soul inside the creepers body the gods plan did not go to well because the brain of creepers were not that big meaning the prophet they sent was unable to spread the word but something happen that helped Prophet Tannic. One day when Tannic was walking around the swamp he was quickly knocked out by a witch and brought to its hut where Tannic was then experimented on and when the prophet woke up he saw a horrific scene with dead creepers and blood everywhere he picked up a axe on the wall and murdered the witch and Tannic quickly noticed he had two arms and two legs and was no longer a normal creeper and with the gods watching this unfold they quickly realize that their own prophet had broken the rules of the gods but the gods quickly came to the agreement it was a act of self defense and Tannic was still considered pure in their eyes. Tannic quickly ran out of the scene and back into his cave where his fellow creepers forced him to leave and Tannic would never see his parents again as some days later pillagers would attack a nearby desert village and a explosion nearby caused the cave to have a cave-in. Tannic alone in the nearby desert quickly found a abandoned desert village where he would show his kindness and help the locals recover from a raid, but a couple days later another raid occurred forcing Tannic and one other survivor named joseph where they would run to another far away village where Tannic would quickly help build up the town and show his kindness. but over the course of hundred of years Tannic would live a long life of conquest and spreading the word of god but his efforts were in vain as the worlds end was near many countries across Tarbarkin ganged up on him and his empire. with the fall of the Heapion Reich and the destruction of hundreds of church's and the burning of Catalon the holiest city in the Odessuim faith meant the end was imminent and the god's quickly mobilized the Brachium sanctum, a army of the best warrior's that died and went to the the realm of the gods. 
=== The flaming trumpets of destruction ===
The gods fed up with the people of Tarbarkin continuing to burn church's and continuing to fight wars the gods sounded the first flames of destruction with fire storms , tornados , and earthquakes killing millions more than any war before but this was not it the second flames of destruction sounded with Venus leading the Brachium sanctum to kill millions more non believers across Tarbarkin The 3rd flames of destruction sounded with all bombs being taken from the people and launched by the soldiers of god and decimating over 1000s of cities killing 800 million and nuclear winter soon set in and the god's wanting to making the suffering worse waited 10 years to signal the final flame of destruction with the entire world being consumed by a quasar. only a couple hundred people fled the destruction of Tarbarkin with almost all fleeing to Thalmoir or Teraka and with only 3 fleeing to a unknown world of Rathnir.
=== Origins of Odessuim in Rathnir's ===
Prophet Tannic and his apostles were teleported into rathnir and quickly they were ambushed by bandits causing Tannic to be injured and them being ransacked for all of their items and with the 3 holy men cold , weak, and poor in a forest they decided they needed to find a town to settle down into so they asked around for a place to stay and much to their surprise many towns offered them a home but one town caught Tannic attention a nation named the Sataumia Khanate a squatter nation that was seeking a place to settle down too and the two groups worked together and found a small peninsula near a town in the nation of plagos and the town of Sataumia was short lived as men from plagos soon arrived and destroyed the town and killing many forcing the young nation to scatter and Tannic had a place in mind to escape to. Prophet Tannic soon arrived in a town named Solium in the Nation of Serafini where him , his apostles and a couple of people from Sataumia fled. 2 days after arriving in Solium Tannic and his apostles fell sick due to the lack of sanitation in Solium, Nyanja and Unoble quickly died due to new diseases that they weren't use too in rathnir while Tannic on his death bed having 2 broken legs , sick and over 630 years old was most likely to die within 3 days but then a stroke of mercy from his parents he was quickly healed all diseases were cured and his broken legs were healed. Tannic back to full health quickly established himself as a figure head in Solium with a huge makeover and a large recruitment drive he helped Tzar Herrech develop Solium into the second biggest town in Serafini and 4th biggest in TEK and when Herrech resigned he gave Tannic full power over Solium. Tannic also had a second mission which was to spread the religion to Rathnir to make sure that Rathnir isn't destroyed for their sins, he quickly built a church in Solium but his religious work was quickly stopped due to his attention being taken away from religion and more into politics in Serafini.
=== Origins of Odessuim in Abexlias ===
Over the course of a couple of years Havens_ridge was done being setup and some land was available in the town and the first Church of the Religion was built by the pastor SurgencioYegros and the religion continues to expand her holy realm and more people join her realm too be continue...
== The Religions Rules/Gods Description and The Realm of the Gods ==
=== The Demagogue ===
# do not kill innocent life
# do not use the God's names in vain
# do not burn or damage religious church's
# give poorer people food and excess wealth
# if the faith is under attack u must take up the sword of Venus and the banner of Odessa and kill the heretic's
# do not consume mushroom related food as it has un-holy properties
# do not discriminate race as all people are created equal under Odessa 
# do not take or steal from others
# do not follow other fake god's or figure-heads only follow Odessa
# do not judge others 
=== Jihadsia {Holy Jihad} ===
The Church is not always peaceful as when in time of crisis the church must take up arms against the Heretics but only can The Holy Prophet can call to arm's to cleanse the heretic's, all who follow Odessa must take up arms no matter the cost or no matter who the enemy is the faith comes first before all and when the people of Odessuim fall victim of persecution or discrimination in a nation we must free them of the chains and destroy the slave holders and when we take up arms we will have the strength of Venus on our side to win the religious battles. Holy Jihad should not be mistaken as a political war as when Nation States erupt into conflict the religion will stay quiet but when the Faithful are actively being stripped of their rights and are being executed for their core beliefs we must fight for her holy realm and their is one Holy chant to call upon the gods in our time of need, In temporibus discriminibus vires nostras mundo ostendemus, et haereticos pro fide nostra emundamus, Venerem divinam Gladium invocamus, ut percuteret inimicos nostros.{In times of crisis we shall show our strength to the world and cleanse the heretics for our faith, Venus we call upon u our divine Sword to Strike the enemies down}
=== Fides Ratiosa {Faith System} ===
Faith can be thought as some type of anchor, and without some type of anchor, the Faithful loose control of their minds and so do gods. When a Entity loose their Anchor they loose their mind and become victim of the void a dark and eerie place and when they die, they are permanently stuck in the void with heretics and their souls are forever lost. The Fides Ratiosa works the other way around the heavier the anchor the closer they are to Odessa and the Purity of the Regnum Divintiesa Deorum as the anchor keeps the voidist away from the faithfuls minds, the more good deeds u do for the God's the heavier the anchor gets, the stronger a Entity mind gets. their are many deeds that strengthen the Faithful's Anchor such as providing help to the poor , building church's and protecting fellow worshippers.
=== Regnum Divintiesa Deorum {The Realm Of Gods}===
Regnum Divintiesa Deorum is the realm where all the deity's reside, the realm is outside the barriers of the natural world and in the super natural world were there is no natural laws of physic's or anything that even resembles the natural plain of existence. The super natural plain where the gods reside in have many different realms for all the gods but the realms that concern the mortals of the Faith Is Puritas Divini Regniasa {Purity Divine Realm} and the Vacuusinanis regnum {Void Realm}. Puritas Divini Regniasa is the realm where the warriors and followers of the faith reside with the gods, the realm has a large food hall for the faithful to indulge into mead and food and the gods reside in a massive Palace built by the holy angelus {angels} of the realm. The Vacuusinanis regnum is where the Voidist, Heretic's and Non Anchorist are located within the realms it is a dark place filled with the ruins of old worlds and the Beasts of Decay, creatures that feast on souls and eldritch horrors that are beyond comprehension, these creatures are in rampant numbers and their is no escaping the void and when the Beasts of Decay feast upon u will come back to the void over and over again for all of eternity. 
=== Description of the God's===
====== Odessa mother of all life and Queen of all the other gods======
Odessa is the most important god of all of Odessuim as she is the mother of all life and energy in the universe as it was her proposal to kick start the universe. Odessa is not be mistaken as a weak god although she maybe a mother she still has the powers of all the energy and light in the universe and can single handily destroy the universe with the snap of her finger. Odessa also is in a relationship with another god know as Venus and these two were the parents of Prophet Tannic and she also had a number of other son's but they did not go down the holy path like Tannic did, making the misconception that she only had one child more widespread. The god's have perfect bodies and show their followers to inspire to look like them and be healthy both physically and mentally, and no other god proves this point better than the one true mother of all life with a body made of light, huge angelic wings and a perfect feminine body. She is also known for her everlasting forgiveness for all who repent to her holy name. 
======Venus god of war and destruction======
Venus is the father of prophet Tannic and husband of Odessa and as God of war is a master of tactics and combat. Venus has a range of powers and skills from raising entire armies of the dead to being able to win entire wars in day's and as a master of tactics and combat he is seen as the second strongest god but is still out shined by Odessa. Venus appearance is much more about putting fear into his enemies with 2 massive horns on his heads , wither skull for a face and has the height of 8 foot 9 a unbelievable size and finally his own sword that can kill almost any creature or heretic. Venus is always present in a war that the followers of the religion are fighting in.
======Golwuesa God of Magic======
Golwuesa knows all types of magic and is able to perform all dark arts of magic it was also the one who taught The Prophet Necromancy. Golwuesa is a powerful deity and it is the Gatekeeper of the void and it is also the creator of the Beasts of Decay. Golwuesa wears a cloak to cover it's true form but when it takes off the cloak it can transform into a dark 60 ft behemoth that eats souls. Golwuesa is also known for its torturing of people in rathnir with many incidents and one of Golwuesa's Minions Entropy caused a lot of havoc upon rathnir.
======Thesseum God of Chaos and anarchy======
Thesseum was one of the only gods who disliked the occurrens vitae life which added uniform and life to the universe he also disliked the idea of a stable universe he wants to create total disorder and destruction. Thesseum was kicked out of the Regnum Divintiesa Deorum and roams the universe trying to cause disarray and chaos but the rest of the gods keep him in check, Thesseum also have a strong hatred for the Prophet as he felt he was a better choice. His appearance is that of a mortal human/elf he has long hair and always wears a red attire to symbolize chaos and disorder and he his 5ft tall. 
====== Amanaises God of Celestial Bodies ======
Amanaises was deemed the best situated for managing the Celestial plain and keeping the universe stable, she also makes sure matter and anti-matter are in equal quantities or else the universe would be destroyed she is a fairly old goddess and is a staunch enemy of Thesseum as they fight over the universes stability. her appearance is that of a widely infinite body made up of the universe with all the stars , planets , blackholes , quasars and all other Celestial creations all within the natural plain of existence, she has no defined shape or form but due to her shear size she can not speak or make noise as it would erupt the universe into disarray and it would kill all life due to the sound being so loud and destructive with this issue known by the other gods the god of magic Golwuesa casting a spell that makes it impossible for Amanaises to talk.
====== Inkanuko God of Fertility ======
Inkanuko is a god that is seen by all as the beauty symbol of all and her ideal see mortals and gods to last forever in a natural order for she knows chaos looms over the horizon. Inkanuko is also the daughter of the void and part of Golwuesa but later was purified by Odessa to her current beautiful and more appealing form. 
====== Merkalsa God of Time ======
Merkalsa is a very powerful god who has the power to speed up and slow down time or all together stop time itself, the other gods didn't mind these powers before the occurrens vitae life, but this would change when the Merkalsa would speed up and slow down the universe constantly and damaging the universal time structure in the process which lead to all the gods formulating a plan to trap and contain Merkalsa forever and it worked when Golwuesa God of Magic trapped Merkalsa in a umqobo a magical barrier that forever contains an individual forever and with Merkalsa contained, the universe would return to normal.
====== Sorla Fowsa God of filth and corruption ======
Sorla Fowsa a god who is fairly unknown to the mortal realm but is known to come to all mortals in spirit form at least once in their life to tempt to betray their ideals and when mortals succumb to Sorla corruption they will become nothing like their fellow man they transform into abominable creatures. Sorla Fowsa is the younger brother of Thesseum and works with Thesseum to corrupt and destroy the natural order of the universe.
====== Kuarepot God of forging, manufacturing and craftsmanship ======
Kuarepot is one of the first-born child of Odessa and is God of all Manufacturing a symbol of inspiration and strife, Kuarepot is also known for his practice of appearing to workers anywhere and blessing them to continue working efficiently, he is also known for being the architect of the universe from how it operates to the way it looks and is the one who forged Amanaises.
====== Arkemesa The Messenger Spirit ======
Arkemesa as the named entails is a Spirit/Demi-god who spreads words from the realm of the gods to the mortal realm and talks to high priests and holiest of the mortals. Arkemesa is tasked on delivering important details and information about visions and holy scriptures to mortals.
==== Difucationa God of Wisdom ====
Difucationa is a God with unlimited wisdom of the past, present and future and is known for his never-ending knowledge and is not bound by humanoid form and for it takes the form of a living library within Regnum Divintiesa Deorum under the Palace. when mortals reach a point of enlightenment the gods give the mortal a chance to visit the library and gain untapped knowledge to benefit them and the religion.
====== Persoara Goddess of Prophecies and Visions ======
Persoara a goddess with a similar ability of Difucationa, she is able to predict the future but not see the present and has Arkemesa deliver them to the mortals in the form of Prophecies and Visions. Persoara gives visions and prophecies to anyone at any time from good things like predicting good harvest season, future families and good fortunes to bad things like, inevitable wars, massacres and deadly natural events. 
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