Anduism

Depiction of the Anduistic goddess Anglity

**Anduism** is a religion practiced in Valore, within Eldham's Katsura region. It is a monotheistic religion devoted to their single goddess **Anglity**. The nature of the religion is theocratic and fundamentalist, the descendats of the goddess Anglity being the head leaders of the religion, ruling by divine mandate.

## History

### Qwe'tsn Period (~3000 Years Ago - ~1600 Years Ago)

Anduism originally split from the Anglism religion which was practiced by a tribe called the Poths. This tribe existed on the Katsura region of Eldham during the reign of the Qwet'sn Empire over the region. The Qwe'tsn forced the Poths to convert to their own state religion, this caused a fracture between the Poths.

Half of the Poths would split and migrate to Rathnir, and would eventually find the nation of Paloro. The other half of the Poths stayed in the Qwe'tsn Empire and adapted to its religion and culture.

Following the defeat of the Qwe'tsn at the Battle of Crimson River and the empire's following collapse ~1600 years ago, the Poths descended into a state of anarchy and disarray. There would be no organized Poth nation-state for hundreds of years following the fall of the Qwe'tsn Empire.

### Intermediate Period (~1600 Years Ago - 14 Years Ago)

The blame for the Poths' chaotic state was put on the Qwe'tsn for forcibly converting them to their religion and the Poths would quickly come back to their past traditions and begin practicing a religion similar to their formerly practiced Anglism, this would mark the birth of Anduism as a religion.

Unlike its sister religion, Anduism had adapted to become a lot more aggressive, fundamentalist and zealous. The cruel nature of the Eldhamite Poths' surroundings turned them into a considerably more radical group than their Paloran brethren.

### Modern Period (14 Years Ago - Present Day)

The discovery of Eldham by the Rathnirian explorer Athaz opened the flood gates that let groups from Rathnir to immigrate to Eldham. A group of these people hailing from the continent of Plagos and Haven in Rathnir would settle in the northwestern tip of the Katsura region. Alongside them came the colonists from the Plagosian states of Iremith and Nova-Regna, and the Uldrashan state Paloro who settled just south of where they had settled.

This group of Plagosians and Palorans founded the Kingdom of Verdenland a few months following Athaz's discovery of Eldham, under their king Amdiux. The state of Verdenland was short-lived, quickly collapsing and reforming into the Republic of Valore which would ditch the idea of monarchism but slowly begin to uncover the ancient religious practices of the Poths.

The end goal of the Anduists is to form a religious state centered around the tenats of Anduism. This proposed state is named Novum Afierosa.

## Traditions and Beliefs

### The Goddess Anglity

The core premise of Anduism is the religion's single goddess Anglity. She is the representation of the sea and by extension nature. Due to this interpretation of Anglity as a deity of the sea, Anduism greatly emphasizes the protection and preservation of the sea, deeming any way of harming it to be heretical.

### The 7 Children of Anglity and Their Descendants

According to Anduist mythology, Anglity had 7 first and "true" children that could be and are described as her descendants. The first and the most important of these 7 children was her daughter Clerahes.

Clerahes would go on to have children of her own, forming what would eventually become the Nova Afierosian Triumvirate who currently rule over the Grand Union of Novum Afierosia. This is used by the Triumvirate to legitimize and validate their control over the country, dubbed a "Divine Mandate".

### The Serpents and Their Descendants

Other than the 7 "true" children, Anglity had other less successful attempts and creating her offspring. These failed children took the shapes of horrible beasts and monsters. They became the first Sea Serpents, haunting Eldham's and Rathnir's ocean depths to this day.

The Serpents' attempts at their own children with humanity created a race of humanoids with fish-like characteristics. They are sparsely populated and inhabit the coastlines and islands of the Grand Union of Afierosia.

### Divine Mandate

Anduism's main difference from Anglism is in its philosophy of expansion. Anglism is to this day confined to the people of Paloro, its practitioners wishing to keep the religion peaceful and nation-oriented. Anduism's history formed it to become a much more aggressively expanding religion, vowing to destroy the heretical practices of non-believers through either assimilation or extermination.

This ideology is furthered by the idea of the aforementioned Divine Mandate. This mandate proclaims that the descendants of Anglity and her daughter Clerahes are the only ones with the divine right to rule over the Novum Afierosia and by extension spread its goals and ambitions across the world. The only known descendants of Clerahes are Thayn Chew, Thalnor who is the son of Thayn Agetio Sekovich, and