Prismatic Creed

The Primatic Creed (or just Prismatism) is the ancient religion of the Aethian people (Aethian City State) worshiping a single multifaceted god, Prim. Religious practice would also involve the worship of heroes, enlightened commanders and great leaders.

After Prims ascension as the sun, the religion developed two denominations, The Dundy Cult and the Church of Ustaris.

## **Customs**

### **Prayer**

Prayer is done at worship sites such as temples, statues and sanctuaries. Prayer is often accompanied by offering gifts, such as food and sacrifice, even though sacrifice rites are not common throughout practices.

### **Sacrifice**

Prim desires a variety of items for sacrifice, human and animal sacrifice is often carried out in temples, excessive human sacrifice is theorized to have been a major contributor to the collapse of ancient Aethia.

#### **Daemons:**

The ancient texts that Prismatic philosophers have been able to decipher mention various Daemons, one particularly associated with the moon, though the origins of such a Daemon are few and far between.

### **Baptism**

Baptism is common within the creed, newborns, and those willing to convert are brought to a special chamber within temples were Chromarchs siphon off power from Prim to create holy conjured light. The subject is anointed with dyes and fragrant oil given a rite of passage and is left to "Bathe in the holy light". The longevity of baptism ranges from an hour to several days.

### **Funerary Rites**

#### **Sky Burial:**

The deceased is to be washed, dressed and embalmed using various dyes, oils and fragrances and carried to a high point by their loved ones ceremoniously, a Chromarch begins a sermon in honor of the lost one

#### **Mummification:**

A process reserved for royalty, nobility, high officials and the wealthy. The body is embalmed and mummified by chromarchs of the Aethian temple. The body is adorned in precious metals, gems, dyes and fragrances. The body is left on display in the temple nearest to it's final resting place, typically a structure resembling a prism.

### **Hosts**

An host is a person or thing enlightened by Prim, it is their blessing to be able to interpret and carry out the will of Prim. Certain people live as a host till their deaths, others are only blessed for a day or two to guide their actions to Prims will.

### Foresight

Hosts are believed to receive messages and warnings from Prim, thus those who successfully claim to be hosts of Prim typically hold great influence over acolytes.

## **History**

### The Great Creation

There is a great being known as Prim. They were born from the great nothing into this world. Prim hated the world they were brought into. They wished do they did. They pulled a brush from the folds of his suit and painted over the old world, Destroying it and replacing it with one of all white. But in their wisdom he saw a world of all white was no better then the one they had just destroyed, so they duplicated themselves to spread all the other colors. Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Purple, and in all the other colors one could think. They painted the earth we stand on. Filling the underground with the brilliant blues of diamond and the dark blacks of coal. They painted the sea with brilliant hues of the coral reefs and the fish that live there. They blessed the sheep, A being of many colors. They blessed Copper an ore that changes color over time. And they blessed the grass, able to grow color from out of itself. Prim saw that color was useless without beings to see and appreciate it so with their brush they created the first sentients, us. Upon being born they gave us a set of gifts. The Loom, Which puts our colors unto the fur of the sheep. The Smithing table, Which could adorn armor with the stones found deep underground . And the Shears, Which could retrieve the wool from the sheep without harming the creature. - Account from the first Anointed Chromarch Lathenar Vghill'gr

### Prims Ascension

After the great battle against the corrupted beings and the banishment of the Moon Daemon, Prims unified form transcended into a prism, ascending into the heavens and becoming the sun.

### **Construction of the Great Thyr by the first Host**

-A collosal temple resembling a ziggurat with a domed structure on top, adorned with various towers and colors. (unbuilt in game)

### The Aethian Collapse

It is believed that following a series of wars and national disasters, the Tyrant of the Aethian city state Visalus II (the mad tyrant) had been driven insane. As a result he declared himself Host and High Chromarch (executing the current Chromarch)

### The Host Dundy emerges

-Establishment of the Dundy Cult

-Construction of a secret shrine beneath the Prismatic Temple to the Host Dundy

-Sacking of the Prismatic Temple in Ustorisi

## Pantheons

#### Primordials

The first generation of Prims facets representing the primary colors.

### Other beings

#### Unnamed Moon Daemon

Little is known about such a Daemon, other than it was banished to a cold realm far from our own. It seeks to destroy prim in their ascension as the Sun.