Chaos

Chaos is a religion widely considered unorthodox and abnormal by theists. Instead of promoting a deity and such deity's laws, it instead encourages its followers to promote their specific interpretation of Chaos as truth. This de facto creates two leading principles of the religion. The first is that Mortals are above Gods as they can shape their existence. The second is that disorder and contradiction are not discouraged but promoted in the religion.

## Religious Principles

### Core Beliefs

Chaos holds its foundations in other religion's contradictions. By looking at different faiths you can clearly see differing patterns of beliefs. However, there is, in the majority of religions (according to chaos), a single similar idea of a primordial being. This being almost always promotes disorder and, ironically, chaos among the mortal realm. It is important to note that followers of Chaos also consider the 'in the beginning there was nothing' trope a part of this classification. This God of Disorder, Confusion, Clarity, and Contradiction is (again, conveniently) named Chaos.

Chaos is all and nothing, a godless god and a immortal mortal. It is contradiction in of itself and is completely subjective to any mortal's perspective. This means that your interpretation of Chaos is real, and another person's is as real as yours. This, unalike many other religions, places the mortal in complete control over God. The believer is encouraged to promote Chaos as equal to them in belief seeing as they shape their very existence, though this is rarely done and instead most invent a God they can kneel to, not regard.

### Symbols

The main symbol of Chaos is the eight pointed star, respectfully called the Star of Chaos. Pointing in all directions it symbolizes how Chaos is everywhere and is everything. This symbol is the most common, appearing in shrines (more later), buildings (a lot of chaos-architecture can be seen in the town of Arcadia, where almost every single building has a Chaos Star), banners, and more. Secondary symbols of Chaos include anything that is rapidly changing, such as fire, water, and the sky.

### Shrines

Shrines almost always take the shape of a Chaos Star implanted on the ground with pillars appearing from the ends of its arrows. The second most common from of a shrine is a 3x3 star on a wall using item frames and arrow like objects, the middle is left empty.

Star-Shrines, Chaos-Shrines, or just Shrines are believed to manifest into the world using almost magical methods. As the religion differs from person to person the interpretation of how exactly shrines manifest differs. The most common interpretation is that Chaos creates so much unbalance and disorder that shrines in other worlds, that also have Chaos, disappear from their reality and appear into Iaddithis. Apart from the belief that Shrines manifest newer ones are often built in the wilderness by Chaos Cultists with the intention of praising their God/spreading their religion.

## History

Extremely little is known about the history of Chaos. It's religious heads (who in an ironic way call themselves 'Chaos Cultists') tell the story that upon rejection from every city on the east side of the world their leader, Pocket (unfortunately his true name is lost to history and memory, this nickname given by his followers stands as substitute.), decided to build his own city. The location he chose was at the bottom of the Mare Spei ocean, located in between the continents of Tecalgia and Iremia. Although inconvenient (and near impossible) to build, it provided a secure location for the headquarters of Chaos' operations. The city completed was named Arcadia and serves as the religious capitol of Chaos.