Jareche Edos

## Creator of Mankind

A classical Iadrian banner depicting the Holy Crown of Edos.

**The Lord Progenitor Edos, King of Kings**, known by the Eastern men as **Kanaan Eid**, was the Creator God of the human race. Although called by many names, almost all human cultures worshipped a form of Edos. There was little recorded history dating back to the Second Age, but it was widely accepted to have begun with the first appearance of Edos, who was said to have created mankind as a warrior race which he led in his Great Conquest against the Drow, Daemons and (some claim) the Dwarves. The Great Conquest resulted in the diminishing of the elves and dwarves, unifying most of the known Continent under Edos' banner. Upon his vanishing a millenia later, the cause of which remains disputed, his holy empire fractured into the successor Empires of Aldera, Anderia, and Ibbathis. The Iadrians believed that Jareche I, the first King of Iadria, was the second coming of Edos, and typically referred to their God by both names. The idea of this Second Coming was a subject of strong disagreement among the realms of mankind, and caused the Great Schism of the Sixth Age.

## Forms of Worship

### Cult of Edos

The Cult of Edos was the classical Anderian church, the values of which were established in the early years of the War of Holy Succession. It adhered to the monotheistic belief in Edos as the lone true god of mankind, and established the idea that Edos ruled over a glorious afterlife known as the Heavenly Empire. The Cult of Edos continued to exist as the standard religion in the majority of the Western Nations following the Fourth Age Collapse of Anderia.

### Church of Jareche Edos

The Church of Jareche Edos was the Iadrian church established following the reign and death of the nation’s first King, Jareche I Asterion. It posited that Jareche was the Second Coming of Edos himself, returned briefly to the mortal world to restore order to the West. The creation of the Church resulted in the Great Schism of the Sixth Age, which religiously alienated Iadria from the many states adhering to the Cult of Edos.

### Worship of Kanaan al-Eid

The former lands of Ibbathis coalesced under Eidism: the worship of Kanaan Eid, an easternized translation of Edos not dissimilar from the Anderian Cult. Despite the nearly indistinguishable dogmas of Eidism and the Cult, the two religions competed fiercely for the central lands of northern Adovias during the War of Holy Succession. Over time, Eidism diverged into several forms of worship, ranging from Siss Eidism, which cohabited with the Cult in Midaria, to the radical philosophy of Exacted Reunion practiced by the Epherian Empire.

### Veneration of Edos Majorum

The Empire of Aldera practiced the Veneration of Edos Majorum, which differed largely from the successor states of its rival Empires. The Cultus Majorum referred to the Creator God as Edos Majorum and worshipped him as the God of Gods, but incorporated polytheistic beliefs into its state practice. The Alderans deified the Glorious Triumvirate, the three joint rulers who founded the Empire, as lesser Gods in service to Edos, but still demanding veneration and sacrifice. This polytheistic religion was widely decried by both Anderia and Ibbathis, as well as by their successor states.