Eoniranism

**Eoniranism** was an Edinthorpe new religious movement, often described as a cult. It was founded in 176BV and led by the high elf spiritual header and paladin **Alara Eoniras**. It is one of the most famous examples of Kosthorian Pessimism, apocalyptic schools of thought or social movements that arose after the disappearance of Kosthor Rink.

The original Eonirans believed that Kosthor Rink's disappearance was the trigger to an apocalyptic series of events that will end in the total destruction the No-Zone and the eventual annihilation of the entire Chaos Platform. The group also believed that those still living on the Chaos Platform during its annihilation will be annihilated with it, their soul merely wiped from existance.

In 166BV, the Eonirans stopped recruiting and instituted a monastic lifestyle in the rural regions of Hirbec. On the 2nd of the Fourth Block in 163BV, Hibecian law enforcement officials discovered the bodies of 231 active members of the group, including that of Alara Eoniras, the leader of the group. They had participated in a mass ritual suicide, coinciding with the closest approach of the moonstone dragon Madholet from their orbit around the Chaos.

## History

**Alara Eoniras**, born Alaina Whittletop in 247BV, was the only daughter of esteemed Edinthorpe lawyer Ryden Whittletop who had a knack for religious curiosity since she was a child. After the death of her mother from an Eyedrake in 230BV and the acceptance of her father into the Select in 229BV, Alaina was sent away to the Edinthorpe Angel Orphanage in 228BV.

At the Orphanage, Alaina took the new name of Alara Eoniras, after the Eoniras Peaks where she used to live near. Alara also met a friend, the Kenku **Mirias**, who was a devout believer in Kosthor Rink. After reading Mirias's copy of the The Authorized Interviews: Kosthor Rink, Alara also became a devout believer that Kosthor Rink was some sort of demigod who would grant salvation during his time on Esterra.

In 209BV, Eoniras and Mirias established the first Church of Kosthor Rink in Edinthorpe, where Eoniras was well known and popular for her intense and fiery sermons. By 204BV, the Church of Kosthor Rink in Edinthorpe had grown to as large as the church in Valenoff, and Mirias had also developed many community projects and social infrastructure around the growing religious community as well. By 189BV, the Kosthor Rink Cleric Training Center in the Heinlein District of Edinthorpe produced more skilled clerics than any other higher education facility in Esterra, and the Kosthor Youth Center helped a staggering 87% of orphans and disgruntled youth find their footing in society after going through one of their programs.

When news of Kosthor Rink's disappearance in 177BV hit Edinthorpe, many of the believers were filled with pessimism and depression, with a majority thinking that they'd been abandoned by the savior. Mirias was hit hardest by this depression, driven insane by the made-up sins in their mind that supposedly prevented Kosthor from taking them with him to the celestial planes. Mirias eventually killed themselves by hanging in their home in 175BV.

After Mirias's death, Eoniras, herself struggling with depression after Kosthor's disappearance, adapted a new apocalyptic theology, preaching that the end of days will come soon and that death before the end of the Chaos Platform was the only option to join Kosthor Rink in the celestial planes. Eoniras was excused from her pastor postion after her series of darkly pessimistic and apocalyptic sermons, but she managed to attract a small group of apocalyptic believers as well. This small group led by Eoniras left Edinthorpe and traveled by foot to Hirbec, where Eoniras believed the group would be able to reach the location closest to the celestial planes.

By this point, Eoniras, slowly going insane and influenced by the Chaos, began incorporating news she heard about the city Starshower into her sermons. She had read news from the Hirbec Herald that the moonstone dragon Madholet approached the city and exhaled her breath onto the city skies, causing moonstones to rain down upon the city. For her sermons, Eoniras began preaching that the Madholet was a dragon sent down by Kosthor to pick up the souls of his followers to the celestial planes.

### Mass Suicide

On the 3rd of the 7th Block in 164BV, the Eonirans began renting a large unoccupied castle in Hirbec which they called the "Refuge". They paid 120,000 gold per Block, in gold bars.

On the 2nd of the Fourth Block in 163BV, Hibecian law enforcement officials discovered the bodies of 231 active members of the group, including that of Alara Eoniras. The cause of death seemed to be some sort of magical spell that sucked the moisture out of the bodies, except for that of Alara herself, who had stabbed herself to death with her personal longsword.

A long note near Alara's body revealed that the group believed that they had to die before Madholet left the Chaos Platform in order to join Kosthor Rink at the celestial planes and be spared annihilation.

### Aftermath

The Eoniras event was widely publicized in the pressed as an example of mass suicide, and an unfortunate effect of Kosthorian Pessimism. Waves of suicides occurred for the next few years as a direct result of the Eoniras event, with many leaving notes stating that they've killed themselves to join Eoniras and Kosthor in the celestial planes.