History of Religions

**Religions** on Magna Terra have come in many ways, shapes and forms, with religion being an overly "underused" cultural and spiritual aspect in MT's universe. In spite of religion having a few successful appearances which helped transform the world, religion itself was mostly left under the rug by the players of the server due to either personal reasons or lack of interest in religious matters. Nevertheless, below is a short history of Magna Terra's religions. It is divided into iterations, excluding sub-sections of iterations which would make this already short article even more ambiguous due to the lack of information there exists about former religions or former seasons/iterations.

## Iteration 1

Unknown, please provide any information you have about this time period

## Iteration 2

Iteration 2 saw the rise of **Christianity** to positions of global power, with many nations being Christian. The Christian Church, a united organization of all churches around the world was headed by XiphosS, its Head Bishop. He based this institution based on the basic principles of God's love as well as mercy and a propagation of the Christian virtues without the use of violence. The religious world was shaken by the appearance of the "schnitzel heresy", a form of Christendom propagated by the Holy Roman Empire, with its base in Austria. This denomination was separate from the Christian Church, with its head being aokperson, current leader of the Diyakenid Empire. In spite of XiphosS' attempts to reform this faith into something more Christian-like, it held close to its tenets about the sanctity of the wiener schnitzel, as well as the inferiority of Hungarians. XiphosS chose not to compromise with these ideals and proclaimed a "holy cold war" against this denomination, urging the 'normal' Christians to resist any attempts at conversion by the Holy Romans. With Iteration 2 coming to an end, XiphosS archived the Christian Church's Discord server and wished all members good luck in their future ventures, as well as speaking about his wish for cooperation between Christians in the new season. He also wrote about this religious divide in the book which he publishes in Iteration 2.

Besides Christianity, the Church of the Flying Fish (COTFF) also existed in Iteration 2, having remained practically the same even after their "transfer" between server iterations.

## Iteration 3

Iteration 3 saw the rise of more religions than the last iteration - namely, Islam, Dniprist Paganism and Zarathustrianism all appeared as new religions, with the COTFF and Christianity persisting to the new season. Currently Islam is propagated by the Holy Kushite Empire, Dniprist Paganism by the Kievan Rus', Zarathustrianism is the state religion of the Diyakenid Empire, from where it is widely propagated, with the COTFF merely fleeing from Spain to Tasmania. The Christian faith "followed" XiphosS, with the de facto headquarters of the religions now being in Cluj-Napoca, where XiphosS hopes to build a beautiful neo-gothic cathedral at the center of the city. Nevertheless, Romania, XiphosS' nation, is still secular. With, however, the sudden rise of Zarathustrianism, having even now spread between continents with the Bulgarian Socialist Republic adopting it as their state religion, it remains to be seen what the impact of these new religions shall be.