Mavarism

Mavarism is a religion practised in Aesaria, formerly known as Cyneria and Levacia. It is a polytheistic religion that has heavily influenced the history of Mulfloria and it's surroundings. While there is no official founder or found date. Legends referr to the woodelves off Secal discovering the tree of light as one of the first events within the fate.

### Pantheon

Mavarism has many gods and deities. All where born from the tree of creation.

The many gods:

Asinor: The God of the Sky and Disaster. (Male)

Aviantri: Deceased bird god and watcher of the gods. (Male)

Abgrun: The God of the sea who wields a magic Oar. (Male)

Sichtni: The God of Lightness and Darkness, One of the most powerful. (Male)

Ignius: Foreign god of fire who replaced the old deceased god of fire. (Male)

Feuyr: Deceased/Old Fire god. (Female)

Rect: The God of Justice. (Male)

Nichtei: The God of Death. (No gender)

Skjoldr: The god of Charm (she is very charming and suave) (Female)

Vystellyn: The God of Stewardship. (Male)

Belles: The god of War and Foxes. (Male)

Tyranius: The God of Chaos and one of the cult of cisero members (Male)

Tenebris: The God of Order and the other cult of cisero member. The father of Rect. (Male)

Galater: The God Of Agriculture and daughter of Tenebris. (Female)

Drathi: The God of Insanity. (Both genders)

Cayreit: The God of Love and Fertility (Both genders) was the embodiment of love. They is depicted as a beautiful person with long hair, wearing a white robe. Their symbol is the lotus flower, which they uses to fertilize the earth. They is associated with fertility (especially childbirth), but also with romance and passion.

Mourit: The god of animals, Is not human and is instead a Cat-Scorpion Hybrid. (Female)

Senza: The god of Thievery and the trickster of the gods. (Female) She takes what belongs to someone else, but won't harm a person unless they've done something wrong in her eyes. She's also known as the patron goddess of thieves and pickpockets, which is why she's sometimes called Senza the Thief Goddess. She has no one special she favors over another, so long as they don't do anything bad or evil to others. Her symbol is a golden key.

Chadion: The god of Manliness. (Male)

Aenarsa: The god of seduction. (Female)

Grathor: The god of cannibalism and Incest. (Male)

Tinean: The god of Greed.

### Beliefs on world creation

Like stated before, in Mavarism there is the believe that the gods where born form the tree of creation in the form of fruits that fell of. While some of these gods and deities continued to use their powers, some of them didn't, losing their devine power, becoming human and so the first humans came to be. Scholars theorize that the tree of creation is a metaphor.

### Sects and variants

Mavarism is a very splintered religion for now, no centralization has happened and the gods are in a dynamic powerbalance, this is contrary of their innate power. The dynamic powerbalance is dictated by the amount of followers each god has on it's own, since most, if not all gods have there own sect of followers who only pray to one god within the wider Mavarism religion. so was until shortly Chaosism one of the most powerfull sects, this is replaced by Lawism. This culture of sects competing wich each other in name of their god is the most unstable part of Mavarism. Known sects falling under such a regime are these:

Chaosism: this is a sect that worships Tyrannius, it is also one of the two sects that make up the cult of cisero.

Lawism: this is a sect that worships Tenebris, it is also the other of the two sects that make up the cult of cisero.

Obreaism: this is a sect based in the city of Valvirium that mainly worships the gods Sichtni and Abgrun.

luckily there other kind of sects to, created by medling from the gods or by deviation of the base religion.

The Cult of Cisero: A sect that worships the gods Tyrannius and Tenebris. The cult of cisero is two sects combined to make the cult.

the existence of both the Cult of Cisero and chaosism are hanging in the balance since the events that transpired in Cyneria with the civil war killing Jokerius and his followers and the almost complete annihilation of the Chaosism sect in result.

luckily there are other sects who are seemingly more stable and are less warlike since these sects are not centered around one god.

Iolcemic Mavarism: This isn’t really a sect but just a slightly different version of base Mavarism.

Secalism: A sect based around the village of Secal, they worship the tree of life and the gods that use the tree for medling.

Other sects may exist, but these are unknown for now.

Sectleaders are named oracles.

### Holy sites

For now only one holy site is known to still exist, the tree of life in Ost-Il-Secal, protected by the Secalism sect of the religion. This makes Ost-Il-Secal a holy city for the religion and it's history is rich and long. Legends tell that the tree of life was a seed from the tree of light, harvested by Galater, the goddes of agriculture in disguise as a bird. The seed was planted shortly after and grew into the tree of life as we know it.

The tree of light was another holy site existing in Mulfloria, until the conquest by Vinitica. the viniticans destroyed it, mostly to vanquish elvenmemory, partially for the wood probably. The tree of light was original a seed harvested by Sichtni, the god of lightness and darkness from the tree off creation, if we have to believe the legends.