Religion in the Empire

***Legal Religions***

### The Old Faith

The Sect of Verglas a sect of the Precursor's Abbey of the people that also worships Seidies

***Illegal Religions***

Any worship of ascended gods

***Occult Religions***

Wicca

Voodoo

The Deep

## General Beliefs

-When somebody dies their soul stays in the body for a time, (one minute), then they see a bright light and are compelled to walk through it. Once through they are in Necropolis, the Realm of the dead. Where they will wait until the next time Violet comes to gather the souls of the dead to move them on.

## Accepted gods

Anathsoua

Keutus

Eathus

Iraie

Qiggok

Xuna

At-Kodet

Jien

Violet

Nessene

## Fey

For information on the lore and creation of the Feywild and the Greater fey see, The Feywild

### Greater

Autumn's Baron

Empress of Ice

Lord Summer

The Muse of Spring

## Non-Accepted gods

Any being that has ascended to godhood becomes a Non-accepted god. The Precursor gods don't wish to share their deity status and the Empire in response has made illegal the worship of any ascended god.

## Occult

#### The Deep

Followers of The Deep Ones

No known group follows the deep ones

Cults that are located are eradicated, no sane person wishes for the wrath of the Deep ones.

Cults usually arise when a particularly charismatic individual gathers a following, this individual usally came to their powers through a deal they have made, usually unaware, or in their sleep however it is a deal nevertheless and are bound.

### The Deep Ones

For information on the lore and creation of the Abyss and The Deep Ones see, The Abyss

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Currently Asleep in the prime plane, asleep in the forgotten city of R'lyeh on the sea floor. the only deep one who is known to have managed to travel through to the prime plane. Like travelling to Narnia, he passed through accidentally, however he was never meant to be here so he is asleep, He will only awaken if he can influence humanoids to create the Necronomicon, read through it's pages and perform the ritual needed to merge R'lyeh with The Abyss linking the two realms. Allowing him to awaken to devastate the landscape.

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#### Voodoo

Followers Include

Voodoo Warlocks

The Island Lords

Voodoo was brought from the Island Lords who do not worship the gods despite the Empire's wishes, their islands float around too often to be able to resurrect people reliably via ley lines and so they turned to the other side for help, the Loa, who have had many souls seek them out, some are brought back, some are not.

### Loa

Loa are scavengers, they seek to lap up the wayward souls in Necropolis, if any souls leave the Necropolis, they are free to be gathered by Loa for their own purposes.

If you are captured by a loa, there are two outcomes, usually your opinion is not relevant to the outcome.

1. Your soul is placed in a container and bound to it, with other souls who have been captured like you, this container is called an "Anima Avarum" The more souls a loa has, the more powerful it is.

2. You make a deal, but different loa make different deals.

Baron Samedi might resurrect you. In return, you must return to ride his Nightmare, his demon horse, to gather souls in Necropolis at his whim.

Mademoiselle Eloise likes to force the captured to drag 6 weak bodied souls out of Necropolis, and then reincarnate you in a weak body, so when you die again, another may drag you out. Once alive again she often has different demands each time, most have to do with preying on the weak, such as killing defeated opponents or scattering the belongings of the homeless.

Luca and Lucia are the most often sought out by wandering souls, if you encounter Luca, you are as likely to be brought back to the necropolis as cast into the Anima Avarum, but if you encounter Lucia, you are as likely to be cast into the Anima Avarum as you are to be resurrected, with one proviso, let others know who brought you back.

Papa Legano appears as a kind figure, but is cruel, he sends you back with a half-life, for instead of sleeping you die, and instead of waking you live again, most go insane within a month, others are killed, believed to be zombies or vampires, those that live with their sanity, soon realise food has no taste, water does not quench their thirst, the warmth of the sun no longer offers any relief against the cold hand of death.

There are many loa, but these are the most well known, and the most powerful.

#### Wicca

Followers include

Hags whos covens ususally have 2-4 hags

Covens of usally 10-15 people who perform various rituals allowing them to share power, 10 low level spellcasters are capable of feats above their regular capabilities, they have been known to contact beings in the Necropolis but what beings these are is unknown

Witchery is a particularly new religion taking parts of Druidism or (The old faith) and merging them with voodoo, it is particularly popular within the Wug Wetlands where the island lords originally landed, mixing their beliefs with the native populations, who despite living in Orecic lied deep within the swamp and were relativly untouched by the new religion and so still mostly followed the old faith. The brushing up of societies produced a new religion combining all of their beliefs.