Chaiuran Machaianism

Cháíúran Machaianism is the largest offshoot of the Machaianist religion, and one of the largest faiths in the known world. Founded by a former nobleman-turned-monastic, a troubled veteran from one of Naran's wars of expansion, the faith centered around this mysterious figure, later known as the Cháíúran -- the "spirit's unity". Retreating to the remotest reaches of the Kotsai, he is said to have remained sitting in one place for one year, watching the return of life to the mountains in the spring and teaching the many monks who would come to receive his wisdom. He vanished at the end of this year, a single sapling growing in the place he sat.
Cháíúran monks believe not only in the self-sacrifice and interconnectedness of all things that is standard for Machaianist practitioners, but additionally believe in the unity of things across time as well -- that is to say that one is connected to one's ancestors and to one's descendants all at once through the Great Machai. A strong element of reincarnation pervades their beliefs, as human souls are believed to merge and reemerge from the Machai periodically throughout time.
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