Gnosis Segris

Gnosis Segris is a religion created and led in the world of Paxia by the man Jabul Il-Sul. It is an offshoot of Segrism that interprets the world as being created by a machine that was leading itself towards eventual annihilation, which would render all conscious beings in a blissful state of non-existence. This religion was created as a rebellion to the traditional Segrist views held by the majority of the Strong. As Jabul Il-Sul gained popularity in his views, Segra confronted him and his followers about it, which eventually led to her smiting them and creating the Scumoctacon.

## Jabuli Gnosis Segris

Jabul Il-Sul was a Paxian man of the Strong race in the state of Tromauch. As such, he followed the religion of Segrism as it was taught back then, somewhat similarly to what is believed in modern Rathnir and Eldham. In the year 214 of the Paxian Era, Jabul Il-Sul started an alternative religious movement to the established Segrism.

The Jabuli Gnosis Segris firmly rejected the notion of Segra's creation story or battle with Deiodio. He asserted instead that Deiodio was "The Great Machine", or *Kalpazas*. The nature of the Great Machine functioned as a Godhead, which generated the entire universe inside of it, and would eventually breakdown and destroy itself. When this happened, all conscious beings would be put into a stasis of blissful non-existence, called "the Little Sleep" or *Prerrusio*. The belief has many other beliefs, such as strict dietary restrictions and belief in reincarnation into other unseen realms.

The Jabuli Gnosis Segris gained widespread popularity in the nation of Tromauch in Paxia before Segra purged the Strong. In the year 220 of the Paxian Era, Jabul Il-Sul gathered many of his followers onto a beach during a hurricane and demanded that Segra turn off the Great Machine. He initially just wanted her to use the Great Machine to stop the hurricane, but after they summoned her and they debated for hours over the theology, he demanded that she eradicate existence at once and put them all into the Little Sleep. Segra grew furious at her race for betraying her and rejecting her religion, so she annihilated every one of the Strong where they stood and used their souls to construct the Scumoctacon.

## The Scumoctacon

The Scumoctacon is supposedly the Godhead of Rathnir and Eldham, created using the Strong after Segra annihilated them for betraying her. It is a twisted version of the *Kalpazas* as thought up by Jabul Il-Sul. Segra took the conscious souls of all the Strong and forced them into experiencing eternal non-existence. They experience such intense torment in this that they collectively hallucinate and dream a new reality, thus creating a new realm of experience within the Godhead of the Scumoctacon. According to the Segrists, this new reality called "the False Dream", or *Zhahynmaskra*, is the fundamental basis for reality in Rathnir and Eldham. Segra has increasingly been known to delve into False Dream, but it is clear here that she is not as powerful as she is outside of it. She intends on turning the False Dream into a nightmare, and torment her creation even further.

The Scumoctacon is usually referred to as a transcendent and immortal being, but is also expressed as an inanimate machine that is created by a multitude of animate, non-existent tortured souls. Small portions of Segrists have come to worship the Scumoctacon as its own deity, but this is a fringe view. Usually the Scumoctacon is seen as a fundamental cosmology of the world that has no impact on the inside of the False Dream, or as a non-literal cautionary tale, warning of the wrath of Segra if the people do not follow her will. In the *Egonomica Segrora*, this story and the functioning of the Scumoctacon is collectively referred to as "The Break from Focus", or *Knarbabica*.