Paenrfyrrism

Paenrfyrrism is a religion followed almost only in Cieryn, with the majority of cyrric pigmen being followers. Paenfyrrism can be better described as a conglomeration of different beliefs only united under a single pantheon of gods. Each "sub-religion" of Paenfyrrism usually worships a specific god from the pantheon in hopes of gaining their favour and who they worship is usually based around what is the most important thing in the specific area they inhabit. The probability of being noticed by the god is smaller for more powerful gods and higher for weaker ones, however areas with a high population such as cities or powerful clans have a higher chance of becoming ordained servants of the god.
== History ==
Originally there were many religions that came with the migration belonging to different groups which is why some links can be seen between the religion of Cieryn and religion across Eldham and Rathnir. Much like the culture and language they eventually merged together and a new religion was formed. Religion throughout the recorded and told history of cyrric pigmen has been the cause for the largest and most violent wars, mostly due to the fact as God's usually join in and fight each other in order to gain power.
=== Second War of Heaven ===
As the clans power grew equally, the clans soon did not care as much for resources as for developing ideas and philosophies. And with the various clans relatively independent developing of philosophies, each clans beliefs and structures grew drastically different to each other. Some clans who maintained close relations with each other were not as affected as much, but clans such as the Grand Clan of the Piglins, while they had become more accepted into other Cyrric clan cultures, still remained distant to their Porceirfyrr brethren. Eventually the growing schisms of belief and religion became visibly clear with various Ceirfyrr of different beliefs attacking each other in and across clan borders. While some rune priests wanted to prevent a religious war, others were supported by certain god's to further their own aims (as while each sub-religion in cieryn will most likely call the god they support fair and understanding they are mostly equally power hungry just like the various creatures they had created in their image). Soon the climate grew into disarray with storms sweeping in only seconds after a drought and a harsh bright sun. The god's were restless and also arguing and fighting between themselves. As most of the first gods had "died" there was no one to take control and sort out disagreements. Surprisingly the war was not started as one clan or god had lots more power than the other but for the opposite reason as each clan and god has slightly more or less power than another which meant they could bully each other but still not instantly take control of or destroy their opposition. This war went on for hundreds of years with clans and gods switching sides and allegiances seemingly every generation, with millions dyeing and fertile soil being razed to the ground. It was not until the war devolved into a replay of the first war with many of the children of Beetroot and their allies of smaller deities and piglins appearing on one side and many other clans and gods appearing on the other. While the sides in the war now were remaining unchanged, with there being an actual strong purpose behind the war, the casualties did not decrease. After much bloodshed the side headed by a coalition of the western clans and the children of Chorus and Potato came out of what would be called the victors, yet in this war like most others there was no truly positive outcome with millions more dyeing of starvation and disease after the war, as well as to roving bands of bandits who had turned to crime to sate their hunger and poverty.
Over the next hundred of year there was little to no defined borders of clans, with them constantly shifting and small skirmishes for resources still plaguing the land. Eventually, after a grand effort from many rune priests, the council of 9 re-conviened and decided that the piglins had been the ones to break the peace and they had made no effort to reconcile and so all piglins would be exiled or killed. While they could have found a much less harsh and sinister solution, many of the leaders upon the council wanted more resources and held immense grudges against them believing piglins not to be true Porcfyrr or children of any gods, but a mistake that should be eradicated by the "true" followers of Paenrfyrrism. With that thousands left and many found refuge in the nether with the "true" piglins that still maintained a resemblance to them more so that to the other Porceirfyrr races. Hundreds of piglin were lynched by angry hordes of those seeking for revenge or a scapegoat for their situation.
=== Etymology ===
This religion is known as Paenrfyrrism by foreigners, as yet again Cerant does not have a true name for it as they take it for a fact, and is named after the head of the pantheon and the creator of gods, Paenrfyrr.
Paenrfyrr literally means creator of all beings from the verb Paenur (to create), ero (all/everything) and fyrr (beings)
== Beliefs ==
=== Runes and Mana ===
Religion is strongly tied to mana/life force and runes. Rune priests can contact gods, or remnants of gods, through writing runes and they can imbue weapons and armour with power through runes. Runes are a language of the ancients and it is believed that the god's themselves gifted the porcfyrr with the gift of writing, hence why runes allow people to communicate with them. Rune priests are masters of the craft and hold power over most clans or run them. Scholars of runes study runes in excruciating detail and dedicate their entire life to it. They do not have to possess the ability to imbue power through runes and do not have to contain more than the average mana, but instead focus on optimising rune combinations for the rune priests to then use. Many religious figures get tattoos which are believed to give them permanent power, however you must undergo a series of trials in order for you to gain a tattoo. The most powerful rune priests sometimes have entire limbs covered in the dark teal ink. There is the risk of infection and if it happens then they will not be provided any medical assistance as they believe it is a way for the god's to test them further. During a war an enemy rune priest may be captured and to prevent them from using their powers given to them by the tattoos, they are deformed through burning their skin resulting in horrific scars.
=== Creation of Gods ===
Paenrfyrr was the only god capable of creating entirely new gods out of a physical manifestation of a specific concept. The only other way new gods are created is through a "death" of a god or "reproduction" between gods. Both of these concepts only apply to living beings however they are similar metaphors to what actually occurs. When a god is "killed" it is done through destroying it as a physical manifestation and so the god returns to live as the concept it was the god of, and can no longer physically appear as a true "being", however they can still answer prayers and influence certain events without direct communication. When a god is returned to where it came from part of it splits into 3 separate gods representing certain previous characteristics of the god, along with parts of their personality and physical features. Some get more of their parent than their siblings and so are more powerful- however when they are born, much like a baby, they are weak and must grow to their full potential.
=== Books of the faith ===
==== A Short Guide for Rathnirans on the history of the Gods, By Ananu ====
(This book is heavily biased towards the god Potato (Ghyrr) and his allies. It is not truly representative of all of the faith and many bits are created only for the purpose of comparison and to allow people of different fatihs from Rathnir to understand it better. The names of places and beings are not the native name but names either translated directly into Travellers Tongue or given names usually relating to mythology of other religions. When the native name of something is used it is italicised)
An extract from the book:
The first god grew from the great world tree- Apple. Apple created different branches to different worlds. Five seeds fell and they became his Five children, Beetroot god of underworld, Potato god of earth, Carrot god of life, Axalotl, god of water and chorus, god of the sky.
When exploring the worlds he came across beings of the void (voidebi) they offered him more power in return for one of his magical gold apples. Not realising their evil intentions, his foresight clouded by their malicious black magic, he gave them one in return for knowledge beyond comprehension. Instead they used his apple against him and mortally wounded him, taking over the world tree invading all the realms. Axalotl was the first to realise his father's death. He rushed to his aid but the voidebi were too strong. A commander of the voidebi called inanis charged axalotl with his obsidian spear, but axalotl grabbed a coral spike ,with a three pointed head, which became the first trident. After overpowering inanis, axalotl rushed to warn the others of the impending threat but inanis changes into a wyrm-like form and crushed axalotl between its jaws. However axalotl did manage to send a warning to his brother as as he died he spread his energy to the world's oceans, the remnants of him becoming the axalotls we know today. His three remnant/children, Baku, Agu and Xolotol(kyndu) swam with haste to the kingdom of the gods, informing beetroot and chorus of their father's untimely demise. Beetroot was filled with rage and grabbed his hammer ignimael and began rallying his troops for a full attack, yet chorus stopped him as the voidebi would most likely be expecting this, and would be setting an ambush for them. Chorus instead waited and enlisted more troops from the realms, from his endmen to carrot's patron pigmen (pyaicfyrr) and some of the fiery Blazemen (ardefyrr) from beetroot. They soon gathered a great army where they then marched to a hidden stronghold told about in apple's diaries of old, an unknown access point to the voidebi's realm. They attacked the voidebi swiftly, surprising them, however they quickly overcame their surprise and called upon all others to help them battle this army of beings(fyrr). A fierce battle raged for many days and nights, Gods vs Demons, The good vs the evil. The war was not going well for either side, with both having heavy losses. Tired of fighting, all the gods were called to chorus, who asked for each of their world-killer weapons. With all the world-killer's, except ignimael (Beetroot did not wish to risk losing his precious hammer) Chorus flew into the air then plummeted downwards holding the world-killers up high, then bringing them down on the hard yellow rock that covered the surface of the voidebi world. Suddenly the ground trembled, fissures formed and volcanoes erupted across the planet. Chorus gave the order to the army of fyrr to retreat back into the world tree's branches and watched through cracks at the destruction of Inmundovoi, the broken parts of the planet scattered across the restless plain void. The final battle had been won but the war would never be over, so chorus told some of his endmen to stay upon the largest of the floating islands and protect the other realms from harm. He also stationed a piece of himself there, in the form of his holy avatar, a dragon. Not soon after, the realms would face a much greater threat. 
Beetroot was becoming restless and did not believe he had enough power. He was angry how chorus had taken their fathers place, and felt Chorus was arrogant and controlling. After their battle with the Voidebi Chorus had given control of the different realms to different gods. Chorus's realm was Finani (the end), fit for the most powerful god (Now mostly free of the Voidebi, but occasionally small raiding parties would take what they could, but they were nothing but a small tick on a giants back), then beetroot had Nithero (the Nether), a place for him to dwell and plot, and potato the least powerful got Midmundi (the overworld) which he shared with many Minor deities and his less powerful brother carrot, and the remnants of axolotl. Beetroot disliked how much power chorus held and did not see potato or other gods as a true threat to him, so he began plotting his coup. 
He first needed greater beings of intelligence than his Blazemen for this coup in order to overthrow the other gods, and so took a few of carrot's pyaicfyrr in secret and took him to his lair in the depths of magnarbor-mundi (the world tree) in the realm of Nithero. He took them to his fortress called turrignidol and twisted them to his will and created the embodiment of himself;they were corrupted by another corrupted being. However not all survived this process of pain and madness and many died a slow death while other pounded their heads into bloody pulp in their cells, but there were also the ones who did not survive but did not fully die and were left to rot on the wastelands of Nithero forever roaming their burning prison. They were the first Demmortii. The half dead. 
In midmundi, in an effort to create the same base structure of life that Apple had given his sons for their separate races, potato and some minor deities had created a living being of primordial slime. At first they did not realise that they had created it and that it was alive, until they found it in all corners of the overworld and surmised that it could rapidly reproduce and spread. It was when even beetroot angrily reported a variation of this slime to be within the underworld that they decided to contain it. At first they attempted to set fire to it, which managed to kill many of the ones in the overworld- preventing from them self replicating further- however the ones in Nithero had evolved a resistance to fire due to their environment. It was when Svamgur, a deity of the swamp, realised that his small race of frogs could effectively combat them as they seemed to use the slimes as a food source. Slimes in areas that frogs previously did not inhabit were quickly destroyed as they did not see the frogs as a threat. When the slime infestation in the overworld was mostly eradicated, apart from the swamps where the slimes had adapted to live in balance with frogs (which Svamgur and Potato deemed more suitable than a genocide against a race that had done no intentional harm), Potato immediately went to his brother beetroot to suggest the use of the frogs in Nithero, however Beetroot swiftly refused without reason at first, and then have the excuse of the frogs being almost the same problem as the slimes, as they had already created colonies in environments different to their natural habitat. For example some frogs were seen to becoming more pale and white in the tundra in an effort to camouflage. Potato, too eager to prove his brother wrong, took a few frogs and placed them in the underworld anyway. While there, Potato stumbled upon the Demmortii. Horrified of his morbid discovery, Potato left Nithero to his abode Solanuum in Midmundi. He kept it to himself for thousands of years, creating many excuses for his brother, unable to fathom the want for...
== Gods ==
While when translated into travellers tongue it seems that the god's of Paenrfyrrism are named after plants, fruit and animals in Cerantic it is in fact the opposite, and it is believed that those things are embodiments of the god's and physical containers of their power.
=== Taxonomy ===
There are 3 different types of god's according to the definition by scholars of Paenrfyrrism, the first god's including Paenrfyrr and the Gods he singlehandedly created, the second Gods including the offspring of two or more gods or the ones as results of a god's death, and third gods are minor deities created by the mana left by the death of a god. Technically there could also be two more, primordials and demi-gods however they do not fit the specific requirements of a true god.
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