Ouroborosism

== Brief History ==
Ouroborosism is a religion mainly based in Plagos. Founded by St.Acol in year 1 AC(June 28th 2021) it was the state religion of The Acolytes until the Zemlya Crisis in year 62 AC. After that it spread to Seaside-Baronov.
== Religious Figure ==
Ouro-divine being or order, truth, and justice.
Boros-Embodiment of chaose, lies, and death
Acol-Chosen by each Ouro at the start of each worldcycle, is the only one who can read the scriptures, also granted immortality
Terenzir-Creator of the universe whose shattered mind makes up players and the world
== Belief ==
It is the belief of The Acolytes that the world is protected by a divine being. There is the divine being known as the Ouro, and the being of darkness and destruction, known as the Boros. Creating what we know as the Ouroboros cycle. In the ancient tapestries the Ouro is personified as a beautiful woman and the Boros as a devouring snake. Why have tapestries survived both cycles is unknown, but legend has it that it is because they are woven from apart of the Ouro. The Ouro draws her power from the unity and stability of the world she protects, if this falls too much then the Boros breaks the shield and everything as we know it disappears. Whenever this happens the Ouro sacrifies herself to protect most the people. However it comes at a great cost, someone has to step up and take the spot of the Ouro. All memory of them and the things they've done is erased like they never existed, the only way we know of them is because the world is named after them. The Boros draws its power through treachery, instability, deceit, lies, and betrayal. There are many interpretations of the Boros, however all are false and just egomaniacs who want attention. Note: Ouro and Boros are not real entities, they are not actually a woman and snake that's just for ease in imagining it. They are manifestations of the collective human consciousness. The Acolytes believe that the collective human consciousness is responsible for keeping the world together and any inbalance in the chc or Pyschospace will disrupt the worlds integrity and can even cause it to be erased ,because of this The Acolytes keep their mental state in check with the rest of the world to keep the collective integrity in balance.
=== 11 Revelations of St.Acol ===
The 11 Revelations of St.Acol are group of texts written by St.Acol about how Ouroborosism came to him. It took 30 years to write after he was bansihed from his home of Krobun on the orders of the Order Muveille.
Upon my time in the wilderness I experienced my first revelation. I saw an ant hill, all these ants had their jobs and did them perfectly, perfect order. As the clouds rolled in it began to rain and drown the ants on the surface while the ones underground were safe. Both order and disorder, life and death are what make up this world and they need to stay in perfect balance.
As I camped in the wilderness I saw the clouds roll in. I remembered the ants from a couple of days ago and constructed a tent and dam around the hill, not that the ants cared. When the storm began the tent and dam held up for a bit before the dam partially collapsed submerging a part of the hill. I came to my second revelation order can never win against disorder merely reduce it
When I came to my second revelation the ground below me opened up and I fell into a winding passage. At the end was strange writing, but I could read it effortlessly and when I did I came to my third revelation.When chaos wins, everything dies, including chaos, the universe simply ceases to exist. Took me three days to get out of the passage, I nearly died of dehydration.
While I rested from almost dying in the cavern, I decided to build better structures around the ant hill, but when it began to rain they all collapsed and the amount of water that would have poured in slowly rushed in at once, drowning the ant hill. My fourth revelation is when order prevails, chaos grows more contempt and furious trying harder than ever before to destroy it.
I finished preparations to start exploring the cavern, me and a corps of scientists from the scientists guild set out and explored the winding tunnels, we entered an antechamber and the writing read this. When chaos wins most of the population remains while the world around them disappears, one of these individuals is chosen to restart the world but at a terrible price they are removed from memory and history, the only way to know of their existence is to ask yourself, where am I? The answer is Rathnir, the name of the chosen. That is my 5th revelation. none of the scientists could read it, for it was in an ancient language which I for some reason have an inherent understanding of.
We ventured further through the passage and came across more writing. It reads “The force responsible for protecting our world,and saves us from deletion is known as Ouro”
Exploring the passage further we found more tapestries which read “The force responsible for all this chaos, destruction, betrayal, lies, and evil is known as Boros, the one who will destroy our world” making this my 7th revelation
These two deities form what we know as the Ouroboros cycle, a cycle of death and reincarnation, but they aren’t deities like gods and such, they are manifestations of the collective human consciousness. My 8th revelation
My 9th revelation:There have been two World Break events in history. The first one caused by a world with such order it compressed the chaos into a singularity and thus devoured everything. The second one was caused when the lies and deceit got so intense and complicated it passed the threshold and broke the barrier
My 10th revelation Ouro and Boros are not gods or deities, you can’t talk with them or anything. They are just a personifications of what manifests from the collective human consciousness
My 11th and final revelation: When there is a Worldbreak event, a singal person will have the ability to read the ancient texts, the Acol. That person is me, I am the Acol, and you are my Acolytes.
=== Book of Terenzir ===
Terenzir is what people would call “god” ; Before the formation of our universe Terenzir was the god of creation for another, however due to a conflict between the gods of that univerese he was tortured to the point where in a despereate act to save him self his mind shattered and a new universe was born. The fragmented pieces of his mind formed themselves into players and with their collective creative powers created the world as we know it. 
People are pieces of Terenzir’s mind. This is why when a religion gets enough followers their gods become real, they are collectively creating and keeping their god alive. When there's too much chaos then the people are not collectively keeping the world together and thus it falls apart like with Jagdas. When there is too much order Terenzir is being reformed and wishing to escape a prison of his own making tries to reassemble himself, however to the increasingly shattered nature of his mind is unable to and in the process destroys the world, such as with Paxia
Notable instances of the power of Terenzir is, sinking of Escharia, creation of Eldham, the HUB, creation of Jagdas and Rathnir. The void receding. Any event involving gods. Unwanted individuals not being able to damage cities.
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