Rei'Olozon

## Overview

The warship of the moon goddess Rei'olozon, sometimes referred to as the winged destroyer, is the main deity of the Grand Duchy's prime religion. Well not as popular as Ifirith overall those who believe in Rei'Olozon are often more devoted to her.

Like many aspects of culture and economics between the Mass Alliance and Grand Duchy of Julithar Rei'Olozon is in conflict for with Ifirithism over gathering more believers.

## History

### Early history

Rei'Olozon, as it would come to be known but at the time only referred to as Rei'onis, became a solid concept and dates back to 10,000 BDoS as that is the first image of a goddess of the moon date back to. A more solid foundation occurred in 6,000 BDoS when better tracking of the moons orbits was made, following the tracking of the moons brought in more study and worship of the moons powers and the learning that they control the tides. By 5,342 BDoS a solid temple was made promoting technological discovery with its astrolabes. This temple grew more and more powerful and spread its influence all over Olozon and came into contact with Sol'onis.

### The sun vs the moon

As those who held the sun in great faith came into contact with those of the Rei'onis temple conflict quickly broke out. Well the Sol'onis worshippers were in much greater number the Rei'onis worshippers had much greater technological breakthroughs. One technological breakthrough that massively helped the Rei'onis faithful was folded steel, able to make stronger blades with the same level of iron. This technological advantage gave them the edge as most warfare was fought on the oceans of Olozon. The Sol'onis had Dom'ma the largest continent and were able to replenish their ranks far faster but they were unable to push into Rei'onis territory. These conflicts would go back and forth without any real winner for centuries. It wasn't until 1241 BDoS that these wars would come to an end.

### The great calamity

One of the smallest moons of Olozon had an unstable orbit, one that had been baffling the Rei'onis observers for centuries. This lesser moon was a captured asteroid that had an unstable orbit and finally began to approach the roche limit. In the early months of 1241 BDoS the moon ignited in the sky's of Olozon. It landed deep in the heart of the Dom'ma continent, obliterating the center of the Sol'onis support. Devesting them and leaving them open to attack from Rei'onis supporters. In an instant the stalemate that had lasted thousands of years vanished and victory was handed to the Rei'onis who spread it across the world.

### Dark age

After the great calamity the debris from the impact spread over the world and blotted out the sun for nearly ten years. This was known as the war in the heavens, Rei'onis bloating out the sky so that she could fight Sol'onis without her world seeing the brutality. The population dropped significantly as new crops were unable to be grown, however the light of the sun returned.

### Rei'Olozon

> *And then the sky's parted, beautiful wings of shinning light spread across Olozon. No long Rei'onis moon goddess of the the sky. No. This was Rei'Olozon. Goddess of the world!*
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After the temporary ice age the clouds broke and it was seen as Rei'onis consuming Sol'onis and gaining their power over light. The goddess was reinvented as the soul god of the world, their influence absolute.

### Grand Duchess

In 1230 BDoS the first empress of the Rei'Olozon was crowned to see her will be done and the Grand Duchy was born (at the time simply known as the empire as no apposing authority existed); most of the world was already under under the influence of the Grand Duchy and after the sizable population decrease between the near constant wars and the great calamity followed by the short, but devastating, ice age few were willing to disobey the grand duchess or tempt the might of Rei'Olozon. Giving rise to the absolute authority that would remain in place to this day.

### Into the space age

As time went on a constitution bound the empress and forced consolidations until the empress was downgraded to the position of duchess, still ruling but without absolute power and the ability to be removed if they began to abuse authority. By 5 BDoS they made their first space flight and by 3 DoS they were able to make their first landing on the largest moon around Olozon, putting down symbols of devotion to it. As space flight became more reliable the moons that could not support a population were converted into temple worlds and considered sacred sights.

### Into the modern age

When first contact with the Cantium turned violent before cooling off and the Julitharian were introduced to the wider Aetherian sector they immediately came into clash with Ifirithism. Conflicting ideologies set them apart and many Julitharian saw those that worshipped Ifirith as attempting to convert symbols of their holy god to more compatible with their own. Many considered this an affront to their purpose. But if Rei'Olozon consumed one god, why not another? The inner most temples to Rei'Olozon made new depictions of her fighting and consuming Ifirith, feeding into the Julitharians superiority and causing many issues between Ifirithism and Rei'Olozon that remains to this day nearly three centeries later.

## Other species

Despite it being very centered around Olozon other species have been converted to Rei'Olozon.

### Cantium

Despite the war between them the Grand Duchy was able to maintain a peaceful relationship with some nations within the United Cantium Conglomerate (UCC), more specifically Zalious and Sandala as they are the closest to the boarder with the Grand Duchy. As the relationship began to improve Zalious began to convert to Rei'Olozon, little by little and then passed it on to Sandala. They consider its more authoritative leanings a good fit for their government and people, pushing the Julitharian commitment and sense of duty to their own people.

### Nodith

As the Kingdom of Nodith was on the boarder of the Grand Duchy influence was impossible to avoid and many Nodith began absorbing Julitharian customs witch lead to popular iconography and belief being absorbed into Nodith culture. Rei'Olozon was a powerful figure and their strength and authority. After the fourth civil war in 337 DoS the pro-Grand Duchy faction made Rei'Olozon the primary religion and became a client state for the Julitharian.

### Pimira

As the Pimira joined the Grand Duchy in 299 DoS they were highly encouraged to take up the worship of Rei'Olozon. Many weren't allowed into the military until they renounced their old gods and took on Rei'Olozon. By 350 DoS over 90% of the Pimira had converted.