Paxiannic Dharma

Paxiannic Dharma is a philosophy and religion that is most concerned with the human relationship to themselves and the universe, in order to cultivate positive personal experience, ethics, and spirituality. It draws a lore connection back to Paxia, but was not written out or publicized at all until January of 2025, in the Wyyrma event. It is found in-game in the books of Paxiannic Dharma, which are collections of teachings on various subjects
== Theology ==
Nature of the Universe / God
Paxiannic Dharma is a pan-theistic monist religion, meaning that it believes the entire Universe is divine and largely sentient. God can be well represented with romanticized images of cosmic structures that inspire awe in humans, like stars, galaxies, nebulae, supernovae, black holes, and time lapses depicting cycles of life and worldly phenomena. God is not a person or character with control over the world and its inhabitants, but the world itself and the Universal experience of it. 
Death
Paxiannic Dharma believes that when we ultimately die for the final time, our consciousness reintegrates with the Universal consciousness. Personal individuality is an illusion created by our own bodies and minds, as each living being is a part of a great divine cycle of consciousness which forms God itself- each being is the Universe pretending to be an individual. It is akin to a water droplet falling from a raincloud, thinking it is its own singular being in a drop, when in fact, it will soon dissipate as a part of the ocean, a small and fluid part of the massive and dynamic water cycle of the clouds, rains, rivers, and oceans. When we die, our consciousness unites back with the Universe, and we become omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent as a part of God. 
As individual consciousness unifies with the ultimate experience of the Universe, it dissipates, and parts of the consciousness may be recycled or stay fixed to aspects of their living lives. There is an afterlife, but it is not "you" that experiences it, but parts of "you" that do various things. When combined with the Ethics of Paxiannic Dharma, this means that many of the worldly interpretations of the afterlife- heaven and hell, reincarnation, spirits and ghosts, dissipation into the inanimate world, cosmic journeys, eternal void, and experience with God; are all true to a certain extent.
Ethics
The intimate omnipresence of God as the Divine Universe creates an imperative for every living being to live in a way that reduces harm and suffering for themselves, their people, all people, and all living beings. Any harm done to an experiencing being is harm that is experienced by the Divine Universe itself. However, it is a fact of reality that many living beings must cause harm to others in order to survive, and are imperfect in avoiding causing some accidental harm to others.
The unseparated, unindividuated nature between humans and God means that any actions (helpful or harmful) we do in these lives will be experienced from every possible angle when we reunite with the Universe. You will directly experience how your treatment of others feels, just as intimately and intensely as the other people feel it. 
== Books of Paxiannic Dharma ==
The Books of Paxiannic Dharma are individual core lessons and theological claims of the philosophy. The books are written in the perspective of Eve, the first paleolithic human to be imbued with the grand knowledge and sentience of humans, who travels the world and learns the lessons of the books from various specialized Chiefs, like the Chief of Chaos, and the Chief of Death. The currently written books and their main points are:
==== The Chief of Death ====
* Living humans have a very narrow and biologically-particular understanding of the universe
* Learning about our true relationship as unified with the Universal God is the Little Awakening, before the Big Awakening that is death
* A person is, at their core, the experience of life and existence. It is not their titles, labels, attributes, body parts, or even mind and thoughts
* An individual living being is just the Universe pretending to be an individual, we are all more like leaves budding out of one tree, where that leaf seems like a separate thing, but is ultimately a part of the tree
* God is the experience of the Universe, unseparated from anything within the Universe itself
* Death is the full reunion of our experience with the omnipotent and omniscient experience of the Universe
* It is therefore imperative to treat yourself and others well, because any harm done to others or yourself is harm against God and yourself.
* The three Divine Rules:
** Treat others as you wish to be treated, and do not treat others as you wish not to be treated
** Treat yourself as well as you can, even though you are imperfect
** Do not try to equate or calculate harm and help, because negative things are experienced more intensely than positive things
* While death is blissful, the experience of being God is intense, awe-inspiring, and cold
* Be thankful you only have a tiny narrow section of the Universe to influence, and just be a good and decent person within it.
==== The Chief of Chaos, Change, & Suffering ====
* Life is inherently change
* The world is full of change, and humans only have very limited control over what changes within it
* The root of internal suffering is that humans desire (or want)- they wish things were different than they are
* Humans can cease their internal suffering by curbing their desires
* Want and the suffering it inflicts on the mind are powerful motivators to change one's circumstances in life
* People in desperate or unstable conditions should rely on desire to fix their conditions
* People who do not need to rely on desire as a motivator should work to curb their desires, as this will curb their suffering
* People can find a healthier and stronger motivation than desire in combining: life purpose, understanding their projected future, and focused effort