Ashes of Valreash Worldview

== Worldview ==
The cosmic forces of the universe are in constant change, full of entropy. What causes this entropy is cosmic waves of energies called forces or powers. These forces are pools of destruction that interact with other pools of destruction. Swirling, colliding, breaking up, combining with, and smashing into other pools. This happens on a cosmic level, the world level, the society level, the individual level as well as through time. This leads to the main tenant: The smaller these forces or powers, the slower the entropy and change in the universe. However, these forces are unobservable. Trying to see them, one fools their mind by thinking about them. The nature of these forces is truly boundless and limitless and describing them does not describe them in their totality.
=== Make-up of the universe ===
Because the entire universe is a collection of these forces, this means that all individuals are collections of these forces. Since all individuals are a collection of forces, society is also an assemblage of all those individual forces. The next level up, the world level. is a compilation of all the forces below it and the cosmic level is also a collection of all the forces below it, etc. This means that only forces interact with other forces and everything is in constant flux, destruction, and creation.
=== Cosmology ===
The forces are and always have been omnipresent. Before time and space, as we know it, these forces exist. They have created concepts and ideas and physical manifestations that the mind can not comprehend, only to be destroyed in place of other concepts, ideas, and physical manifestations. When the forces of the universe are strong, destruction happens. When the forces of the universe are weak there is stability. The times of the forces being strong and weak come in waves. There will be a couple hundred trillion years when the forces are strong and many changes arise, followed by another couple hundred trillion years of weak forces where the universe stays relatively stable.
Eventually, time and space as we see it today were created billions upon billions of years ago during a time of intense destruction and creation. It seems our time now is a transitions point between a time of a period of weak powers and stability and a gradual trend towards increasing destruction. 
== Common symbology ==
The main symbol for followers under this worldview is usually fire.
=== Social significance ===
Fire has a communal effect. Fire brought people together to share and communicate. This led to two developments the first was that everyone around the fire became friends. It also leads to the idea that “Light touches all” to signify equality among all people in the world. This communal lifestyle emphasized egalitarians. The main societal tradition that brought these worldviews to heart was the Cult of the Flame.
=== Mystic significance ===
The mystic tradition from the worldview came out the Cult of the Flame but focused on different aspects of fire. The way the fire moves is similar to the interactions of forces within the universe. Flames are constantly being created and destroyed by interacting with others and themselves. The interaction of flames gave rise to the cyclical and non-ending thought of the nature of reality.  These realizations of the flame were the birth of the mystical Tradition of this worldview called Mystics of the Flame. 
== Societal implications of worldview ==
In order to create a stable environment, self, or society, one needs to minimize their own power. The more power one assumes whether that be political power, strength, or spiritual power, the more chaos and destruction within the environment, within the society, and within themselves they create. Because of this, it is one’s duty to minimize the power one obtains as well as prevent their peers from obtaining power.
This also means that powerful people should be seen as distrustful, chaotic, evil, harmful. It is said that the more power one attains, the become insane, radical, and unpredictable. They lose the ability to control their forces and soon the powers control them and only grow. It is the duty of everyone to distrust, ignore, evade, and depose these powerful people because of the chaos that they create, in order for them to reduce the forces within them and have stability within society. 
== Mystical implications of worldview ==
As mentioned in the worldview, the universe is made up of forces. Dealing with distinctions that exist in this world, from ideology, race, or even social relations and the ego are all illusory. Interacting with these ideas will lead the mind to think these distinctions are real and independent from one another. However, when one realizes that all these illusory thoughts come from a point of view or a conception, one will realize that their own point-of-view blinds them to reality as it is. As forces!
The entire universe is made up of forces, this includes the self. So looking within ourselves we see the entire universe. Looking into a grain of sand, we see the entire universe. Looking at any object, we see how the entire universe makes up that object Seeing these forces within anything makes one realize, that we are all the same. This makes the mystic, who is dealing with these realizations, see the arbitrary ideas between self and others as fake. Slowly, one realizes that this reality of oneness is the truth. That without any point-of-view one sees things for how they really are, one!
The mystic, who sees all as one, realizes the redundancy of everything ideas and does not dwell in it. The mystic does not dwell in the material world's fears and desires, becoming fearless by being desireless. At that moment the mystic is enlightened.
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