Sovereign Court

The Sovereign Court is a religion praticed in Bia Thin.

## Basics

The Buêrêng believe that the bueraucracy of Bia Thin is a mirror of the hiearchy of the High Heavens. In extreme forms this means people believe that each person has a personal heavenly writer which observes their life and writes it down into the anals of history.

The Sovereign Court consists of 33 heavenly layers, with the Golden Palace as the highest of heavens where the previous emperors go. Beneath those heavenly layers sit the 66 planes of hell, each having a specific theme. Buêrêng believe that, based on the sins commited, their souls will be thrown into one specific layer and that they have to work their way upward through atonement - and if they have cleaned their souls of all the sins that weighed them down they will ascend to one of the 33 layers and find eternal peace.

## Heavenly Layers

Unlike the hells, the layers of heaven all encompass an idealized location the people of Bia Thin might have seen once or have dreamed of. New arrivals in the heavens begin in the Pilgrim's Rest, a plane that resembles a countryside with an inn. After gathering their strength the souls move over the Golden Bridge, which is said to take 100 earthly years. After that they arrive at the Tower of Wise Judgement, where one of the Sovereign Court will then send them to their new eternal home based on their virtues and how useful to the empire they were in life. Only Emperors can go to the Golden Palace, for example.

1. The Golden Palace
2. The Ivory City
3. The Celestial Gardens
4. The Bastion of Victorious Warriors
5. The Halls of Divine Wisdom
6. The Divine Plane
7. The Court of Enlightened Scribes
8. The Dreaming Fields
9. The Jade Forest
10. Heaven of Pearls
11. The Shining Market
12. Endless Sky of Floating Lanterns
13. The Shining Pond
14. Valley of the Setting Sun
15. Fields of Silver Blossoms
16. Fields of Endless Abundance
17. Valley of Everflowing Rivers
18. The Springs of Joy
19. The Gardens of Respite
20. Hills of Gentle Wind
21. Court of Divine Trade
22. The Islands of Grace
23. The Emerald Ocean
24. The Terrace of Temples
25. Golden Wine Hills
26. The Heavenly Teahouse
27. The Gardens of the Ascended
28. Fields of Endless Flowers
29. Sunkissed Arena
30. The Gemstone Coast
31. Tower of Wise Judgement
32. The Golden Bridge
33. The Pilgrim's Rest

## Hell Planes

There are 66 planes of hell, their order (and even some names) points of dispute among the wise ones of Bia Thin. Some think that a tortured soul must only endure the hells specific to their own sins, while others believe that ending up in layer 66 means you have to endure all 66 before being able to enter heaven.

1. Hell of Lying Tongues
2. Hell of Cut Skins
3. Hell of Boiling Sand
4. Hell of Boiling Faeces
5. Hell of Steaming
6. Hell of Being Skinned Alive
7. Hell of Bone Grinding
8. Hell of Pierced Organs
9. Hell of Dismemberment
10. Hell of Boulder Crushing
11. Hell of Disembowelment
12. Hell of Choking on Blood
13. Hell of Beasts
14. Hell of Popped Eyeballs
15. Hell of Molten Iron
16. Hell of Burned Skins
17. Hell of Maggots
18. Hell of Endless Drowning
19. Hell of Bleeding Lungs
20. Hell of Ice
21. Hell of the Pit of Cattle
22. Hell of Bloody Stampedes
23. Hell of Pulled Fingernails
24. Hell of Boiling Quicksilver
25. Hell of the Torn Out Spines
26. Hell of boiled testicles
27. Hell of the living drowned
28. Hell of the burning dead
29. Hell of Lashed Backs
30. Hell of Molten Salt
31. Hell of Solid Air
32. Hell of Drowning Earth
33. Hell of Rabbid Werepandas
34. Hell of Skewered Tusks
35. Hell of Torn Limbs
36. Hell of Endless Oceans
37. Hell of Carrion Eaters
38. Hell of Blood Drinkers
39. Hell of Wizened Hags
40. Hell of Sewn-Shut Ears
41. Hell of Impotent Adulterers
42. Hell of Endless White
43. Hell of Fanged Books
44. Hell of Ironbarbed Beds
45. Hell of Ravenous Pets
46. Hell of Boiling Oil
47. Hell of Fiery Chariots
48. Hell of Shackeled Kinslayers
49. Hell of Rotten Produce
50. Hell of Flesh Eating Rice
51. Hell of the Boneless
52. Hell of the Teethless
53. Hell of the Living Chains
54. Hell of Flesh Eating Vaginas
55. Hell of Living Manure
56. Hell of Burning Books
57. Hell of Pockridden Cannibals
58. Hell of Rotten Toenails
59. Hell of Endless Papercuts
60. Hell of Broken Bones
61. Hell of Illusionary Terrors
62. Hell of Burning Curtains
63. Hell of Rotten Food
64. Hell of Everburning Pyres
65. Hell of Broken Words
66. Hell of Despair