Blue Phoenixians

**Blue Phoenix** is a religion practiced in Ryzan. It is significantly related to both Soleannen and Twin Dragon, with which can often be syncretic with Blue Phoenix.

## Tenets

1. Blue Phoenixians must always be kind, help where possible, in order to balance out the actions of the Red to overthrow balance with chaos

2. Blue Phoenixans must never force an idea upon another person as their will is granted by the Great Phoenix

3. Blue Phoenixians must always be trying to create balance in their lives in whatever way they can.

4. Blue Phoenixians must always help in war when asked, they must never refuse the call to arms of an ally or of the innocent.

5 Blue Phoenixians must be accepting of all peoples who wish to understand our ways and accept not all will.

## Church Hierarchy

### Champions of the Phoenix

Who are those who have met or spoken to the Phoenix personally, have the highest authority on church matters.

### Lord Bishop

In every nation with more than 5 members of the following, one will be selected to be the lord bishop of the region. They will take residence in a Cathedral.

### Warrior Priests

Warrior Priests are created in any town with a Phoenixian church and are those who are the lowest rank to provide services for a ritual (ie Marriage Funeral) and take residence in a church

## Buildings

### Phoenixian Churches

Built as symmetrical as possible to represent the order that we create.

Symmetry is the most easily understood form of balance. Further explained in ideas

### Church Gardens

Directly attached to the church, filled with the berries planted at awakenings, weddings and funerals which represent the chaos of love and loss. By placing chaos and order together we follow the most basic teaching in how we accept everything in order to create balance

## Rituals

### Ritual of Marriage

The couple to be wed must stand audience in front of their family, friends and a representative of the Phoenix. The couple shall at the start of the wedding, announce their pre-chosen Servers, and then stand before the Phoenixian Warrior-Priest/Lord-Bishop/Champion where they are questioned if they are ready to be reborn as one balanced pair in the eyes of the Blue Phoenix.

Once they are deemed ready they step into the corridor of blue flames, where they are burned and reborn together, the chaos and order from the two of their souls merged and balanced off of each other so that as they step out through the waterfall into the church gardens, they are truly balanced.

After stepping into the garden where they are greeted by the rest of the audience and in front of everyone plant a berry in the gardens, and then are handed their first meal as a couple, wine made from the berries of the church gardens, and bread, dropped for them by the Servers.

Following this as they eat, the Servers will head to the entrance of the Garden, collecting gifts for the couples, as the Wedding's audience head out to celebrate the night, having drinks and celebrating, making sure that the parents of both members of the couple are the first to drink, and that the couple are the last to leave as they now head off into the world together.

Other guests may come and go after the parents have had a drink, but whenever you leave the celebration without the intention to return, you must buy the couple a drink and leave.

### Ritual of Funeral

After the death of a loved one, the next of kin contacts the Phoenixian Warrior-Priest/Lord-Bishop/Champion of the church nearest to where the deceased was married or born (if the two churches are different it is the next of Kins choice). The representative of the church will organise for a Berry from the bush of their wedding or their awakening, to be picked and given to the next of Kin. Then on a subsequent day, those who wish to pay respects to the dead gather at the church to watch the next of kin plant the Berry in honour of the deceased.

## Holidays

A major holiday is the New Years celebration, in which every 12th of February, a new year is declared, and is a massive celebration. All over, flying lanterns and varying other semblances of festivities are seen. Performances are seen in various forms, such as levitation, fire-breathing, or other forms of talents that always seem to bring something new to the table.

## Deities

### The Blue Phoenix of Balance and Integrity

The Blue Phoenix is the first of all beings in the universe, achieving true balance before the world even began to exist, representing equilibrium, balance, kindness, understanding, hard work and the integrity of truth. Appearing in the past in many forms, from a disguise as a miner, to the early Olthiacs, with other names and appearances around the world, thought to have been a reincarnation/form of Sylene of Soleannen Faith due to overlapping stories and descriptions at times, clear connections with the moon and respect for kindness and love.

### The Red Phoenix of Death

The Red Phoenix is the representation of chaos, through emotions and actions, representing the unorthodox and unpredictable side of the universe. Slowly working to devolve the universe into total chaos and unpredictability through death and war, the Red Phoenix has been rumoured to be one with other deities like Caligo.

### The Yellow Phoenix of Peace

The Yellow Phoenix is the youngest of the trio, and the opposite to the Red, believing that emotion causes problems and order causes prosperity, the only way to move forward in the universe is by removing the items of the past. The Yellow’s connection to refined calm emotion is thought to link them with Solaris when combined with the Blue Phoenix’s clear connection and similarities to Sylene.

### The Phoenixian Guard

The Phoenixian Guard is a host of 4 gods, each responsible for a part of the planet, generally keeping themselves to the world, upholding the trio above them, but each still unique.

#### Jatroa

Jatroa is the horse-god of the mountains, the earth, and the forests. He is worshipped by travellers and adventurers, who wish for safe movement and protection from the unknown forces of the world. He often fights with Laroca, when she decides to start rain that threatens travellers and strengthens bandits. He has the appearance of a huge brown horse. He is said to be roaming his favourite areas during the first week of april.

#### Karilt

Karilt is the bear-god of animals, and men. He is worshipped by adventurers, hunters, farmers, etc, and is generally considered as a god of luck. Whilst they have their appearances in humanoid form, it is thought that you may find Karilt during the summer months roaming as a bear in mid july.

#### Laroca

Laroca is the dolphin-goddess of the seas, rivers, clouds, and storms. She is worshipped by sailors, farmers and fisherfolk, who wish for rain, safety on the seas, or a good catch. Some see her as a trickster and at one point in history, sided with the Red Phoenix to bring rains which flooded modern day Carthya Bay. Because of this Laroca has an almost rivalry with Jatroa. Some say in the early eves of november she returns to the scene of the crime, visiting Carthya bay.

#### Saletey

Saletey is the goddess of knowledge, fertility, agriculture and war. She is worshipped by farmers, who wish for the luck she brings to their fields, and warriors, who pray to her, seeking safety from the blades of the enemy.  Saletey is said to appear as a wolf in autumn, having a bronze pelt, sometimes found in the farmland or on the site of a great battle in history, where the land will prosper for weeks after.

### The Sages

The Vale is home to the Four Sages of the Universe, which are said to be the greatest minds in the universe. They were created from the very minds of the creators of the Vale, and had since devoted their life into serving regular people knowledge of the greater universe, and answer whatever questions that may corner them. The Sages play a vital part namely in Libraries or Academies, as they are said to possess the bodies of the hosts of Librarians, scholars or Teachers to help teach people the ways and mandates of the Twin Dragon religion. They are not regularly worshiped, as they do not wish for any offerings, but rather, wish to teach valuable lessons to those who make mistakes.But even the Sages know that they make mistakes, and sometimes, their words are incorrect and inaccurate, and they will often refresh themselves as such. They are said to never get angry, and are often quite patient, even with the most ridiculous of questions. They are genderless, though many statues depict them as older female or male elves depending on what city.

### The Elemental Spirits

On Celeia there exists five elemental spirits, each being a different animal, that constantly shifts every single year: The Falcon, the Turtle, the Serpent, the Fox, and the Pig.

Each of these spirits exist around the temple to protect it from dangers and keep it in consistency with the environment. All temples in every city have the same spirit as the city it is dedicated to. These spirits do not require worship, nor do they require offerings, as the spirits themselves, are said to be the ones nurturing the world, and require no thanks, nor any sort of gratitude, as they are doing it from the grace of their heart due to their love for mortal kind, and it's interest in development. These spirits are never portrayed as malevolent, and are only aggressive if one provokes it through vandalization of a temple, or something under their protection.Every person who is born in a certain year, is dedicated to a different spirit. Since 0 of the Calendar, the elements started at their default positions of Fire, Water, Earth, Metal, Wood, Astral, Void, Soul, Light and Dark, but in the year 4, they would shift forward by one. The year 806, in which the server begun in the Twin Dragon calendar, was the year of Light.

### Queen Lothra and King Momag

These two figures are the Queen of Lothranis and the King of Momaganon, and for their namesakes, is what the realms are named after. Queen Lothra is the aspect of Light, while King Momag is the aspect of Dark. During the early years of the Vale's existence, the two were lovers. But due to their not being able to connect with one another, they could not be together. They would however, come to an agreement, that every hundred years, they would flip a coin, and if the coin was flipped to their favor, they were allowed to perform one aspect of their respective counterpart, which could be either catastrophe or a blessing. This does not only affect the world, but it affects people as well, for one can be born as a hero of the times, and make their country prosper, or a be born as a vicious tyrant, or incompetent ruler, and cause the collapse of their empire or nation. This is to help create balance, to ensure no one gains too much power. Despite their apparent affiliations, King Momag is seen as a rather fair ruler toward his people with a relaxed way of ruler-ship, while Queen Lothra is more strict and authoritarian, with punishments usually being extreme if they disturb the light.

## Stories of Existence

### Cosmogony

At the start, there was nothing, a great expanse of nothingness and blank emptiness, but with a single spark through the darkness a single blue flame emerged and this flame grew in greatness, power and intelligence, and as it became aware, this marks the awakening of the Blue Phoenix, and after a long time of being alone, the Phoenix sought to learn and adapt from others who were sentient. After seven days and seven nights of work the blue Phoenix was great enough to start first creating the sun and that time the sun was has blue and as they continued forth the great Blue Phoenix created time space and the true axis of reality, on this axis they forged Paxia, Jagdas, Rathnir and Eldham in the same planet and as he forged these new continents and worlds, they followed suit in the forging of the sentient species and they began to watch.

### The Red Phoenix

Following the creation of the universe and its new inhabitants, certain inhabitants of this world brought about cruel harsh realities, such as war, plague greed and malice. And these harsh realities began to take form and cement the destiny of this world. As these realities combined and formed one entity, it chose the form of the Phoenix which had created all that was good, and as its first mockery, it took this form on the opposite end of the colour spectrum, the Red Phoenix of Death being formed.

### The Mockeries

The Red Phoenix placed itself at the worst moments in history, its hand involved in every war and every tragedy, forcing the hand of innocent people into the most horrific atrocities. Throughout these moments the Blue Phoenix created Champions who would battle against these atrocities, maybe not on the right side of every war, but the right side of these mockeries of creation, the Champions of the Blue Phoenix's will. Many of these clashes between the Phoenixi haven't been recorded or connected back to the religious significance, but it shall be known in the future, that the Final Mockery will bring about the death of the both Phoenixi, and a new world order will be reborn out of it.

### The Message

The First Stage, as the population of Rathnir heard and were stunned by the minutes of thunderous lightning

The Second Stage, as the population of Rathnir were stunned, Eoin recognises their God.

The Third Stage, as Eoin calls out to their god, requesting new information from the Phoenix to learn how to fight the Red.

The Fourth Stage, As Eoin is told how to bring forth punishment on those who would help the Red Phoenix.
After this communication with the Blue Phoenix, Eoin knew that his next step was to get some true combat experience with an old friend in the form of his old general Alihas.

### The Blue Truth

After the Message, the prophet EoinGeo, knew what he had to do, and began writing out the tenants for other Blue Phoenixians to follow, spreading the word about the religion using the book, "The Blue Truth" and further organising the religion with a discord.

## Ideas

### Mathematics and  Symmetry

Mathematics and Symmetry are the most easily understood forms of balance, as every action has an equal and opposite part that balances out an equation or image, every change made to one must be made to the opposite side in order to show balance.

### Forbidden Number 74

The number itself affiliates with the 74th Demon Warlord of Momaganon, Huayin. In the world of Celeia, she is known as simply "Entropy". Her ambitions were so extreme, that she even King Momag himself, banished her from Momaganon, and started her own rampage across countless different planes. She is responsible for the destruction of Paxia, and the ravagings that she had done throughout the world until being ultimately destroyed by Athaz and his allies.

She is depicted as a woman who appears almost human, like her depiction in Stoneworks. However, her true form is that of a large lizard with black scales and purple backs, similar to an Ender Dragon, except for the fact it is bipedal. Her armies are numerous, and are said that she has an alliance with the Wraiths to cause as much Chaos as possible. Even though she's gone, her followers remain hidden. No one knows who or where, but they still exist... The Celestial Matron has an essence of her store inside of an orb, which she communicates with. Although, this is a far weaker form of the once great warlord.

### Astrology

According to the religion, each world is known as a plane. The Vale, or space, is the primary plane, in which all other planes exist. The Vale also has a series of streams that flow through it like strands of milk, which are also known as “Solar Systems”.

In these streams, they contain multiple planes that form with their host set of Guardian Dragons that protect the planes that surround them. In this case, this solar system has three planes. The first is Naicador, or Paxia, the second is Talandor, or Dagon, and the third is Celeia, or Rathnir, Jagdas and Eldham. Out of the three, Celeia is the largest, and the most populated, with the most development.

Naicador is seen as a large asteroid belt that surrounds Sen, or the Sun, and was said to have been a world at one point, before a Celestial Demon by the name of Huayin, destroyed it, and the world becoming tainted by disharmony.