Kojin

Kojin is a major religion on Al'ard, it is both the oldest still practiced major religion and only major monotheistic religion. The Kojin faith was likely founded in its early iteration in approximately 10,000 BCE. Though the exact historical details are sparse, this is believed to be the time of a major eruption of Mount Kojin, which led to a mini-ice age, and several decades of global cooling and darkened skies. For the great Empire of Oreia, this was an apocalyptic period, the destroyed much of their society and led to mass famine and death. In the immediate aftermath of the eruption a prophet emerged who miraculously survived the eruption from the foot of Mount Kojin. Known only as the Burned One, she spread spread word of her prophetic visions of the fire god Kojin, who was displeased with mankind and punished them with the great eruption. These revelations would quickly spread and coalesce into the religion of Kojin. Believers of Kojin adhere to the most important tenant, that Kojin is the one and only god, an all powerful creator god who dwells beneath Al'ard, and forged the planet and all of its life, while it was still young. Kojin can be both loving and temperamental, punishing those who fail to follow him, or those who have broken faith, but rewarding his supporters with an eternity of paradise within his home in the center of Al'ard.