Faiths of the Known World

## **Antea**

Antea's use and mastery of the meteoric metals is practiced in a religious context. The belief is that there is a singular sentient spirit that moves through the metal and guides the Antean people from beyond.

## **Emabaze**

Emabazian faith is a monotheistic, revering a representitive of the moon in a cat-headed warrior god by the name of

## **Fenize**

Fenizians traditionally revere a pantheon of four major and four minor gods. These gods are representitive of the winds that blow over the nation and the weather they bring.

### Major

#### Moduz

Moduz is the god who speaks through the south wind, associated with summer from the temperate climate it brings with it north from Antea.

#### Poleaz

Poleaz is the god who speaks through the north wind, associated with the winter from the cold climate it brings with it south from the Northern Waste.

#### Tulmuz

Tulmuz is the god who speaks through the east wind, associated with the turbulent weather brought inland from the unexplored seas to the east.

#### Vyluz

Vlyuz is the god who speaks through the west wind, associated with spring from the gentle climate brought with it east from Grand Pridain. Vyluz

### Minor

#### Averioz

Averioz is the child of Moduz and Tulmuz who speaks with the south-eastern wind, often associated with refeshing rain.

#### Gaigiaz

Gaigiaz is the child of Poleaz and Tulmuz who speaks with the north-eastern wind, often associated with the most violent of storms.

#### Ribz

Ribz is the child of Moduz and Vyluz who speaks with the south-western wind, often associated with strong winds.

#### Nezez

Nezez is the child of Poleaz and Vyluz who speaks with the north-western wind, often associated with cold weather.

## **Oxwall**

As a non-colonised area of Grand Pridain Oxwall follows traditions present in Grand Prain before the Pridish Crown was established. The focus of their belief falls onto the behemoth Anste and their minors.

### **Anste**

The great unicorn Anste resides within the mountains and valleys of Oxwall.

## **Pridain**

### **Crown Church**

The Crown Church is the state religion of the Pridish Empire. It is mandated that each town and village across the Pridish Empire must have a church, however the construction and size of these are not policed.

### **Church of Function**

A smaller church based on the fundamentals of the Crown Church but devoid of the ceremonial nature of the practice as well as being markedly more ascetic. This version of the church is especially popular among the educated graduates of the high academies.

### **Historical**

Pre-crown Grand Pridain was entirely dominated by cults devoted to the Pridish Behemoths (now known as the Bound Gods). It is unknown exactly how many behemoths existed before the founding of the Crown but the majority of these beings are believed to have been minor in their power and died out naturally due to the lack of influence from the more powerful behemoths after the binding.

It is commonly believed that cults devoted to these beings are still present in the land and they are rooted out from time to time, mostly by private paganfinders. Stories of these people and their practices are almost always exaggerated.

## **Isle of Song**

Despite being a vassal of the Pridish Empire the Isle of Song maintains its own unique faith and practice, however the island does boast one large church for those who choose to follow the religion of their occupier.

### **The Conchord**

Songite faith is a form of ancestor worship and is practiced almost entirely through the performance of music, poetry, or theatre. Reincarnation is a fundamental belief in Song and it is thought that each person is the reborn parts of the creativity of the deceased, come back to create art on the shoulders of what came before. The name of this general ambiguous mass of creation is the Conchord. It is commonly thought that each person is born into the world to create one great piece and most Songites spend their entire life chasing this dream.

In Song tradition there are no established areas of worship, but common spaces in settlements (such as town squares and inns) and cleared areas of nature are used to play and produce art within to 'please' the ancestors and the general spirit of Song.

Song, the island, is generally considered to have its own voice too but the people and so sculptural works are fitted across the island that play with the wind and rain to produce the islands 'song'. These are often included within the architecture of buildings too by wealthy patrons.