Yenerel Faith

### Quotes

"Hail Nasyst, hail his kingdom and people; for they are blessed by the Eighteen."

### Symbols

The Star and Rays

> "*Hail Nasyst, hail his kingdom and his people; for they are blessed by the Eighteen."*
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> - A common prayer said before and after a ceremony.
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The **Yenerel Faith** is an ancient religion, consisting on the Eighteen Divines. The religion evolved from the old, pagan animist folk beliefs spread across the continent, and neighbouring ones. The religion is centred mostly on the god, **Nasyst**, he has many titles; The Creator, The Light, The Holy King, to name a few. Apart from **Nasyst**, the Yenerel Faith follows 17 other Gods and Goddesses, making up **18** in total.

The **Yenerel Faith**, and its worshippers, believe in a strong sense of birth privilege, and view the realm of the gods as a Kingdom by itself, consisting of the ruler, the court, the maidens and the people. The religion itself is very oriented on music and history, it also showcases many folk beliefs and traditions, possibly linking to an animistic past.

## History

Within this section, the entire history of the **Yenerel Faith** shall be written down, from ancient texts to modern history.

### Ancient Texts and Writings I

The history of the Yenerel Faith is, unfortunately, **mostly lost**. After the former period of tribal warfare started, the religion devolved into a type of more **regional worship**, with some gods being worshipped and others being forgotten. The most **dominant and modernized country in region**, **Bostadir**, has been making progress on finding old parchments on their religion and has been successfully "rediscovering" the religion.

It is theorized that the religion itself originated somewhere **near the Yenerel Archipelago** or on it, where it thereafter spread into the mainland, going into more depth, it is thought that the faith has its roots before the land bridge to the Yenerel Archipelago was washed away. Within the Yenerel Faith, there are many **messiah-like figures** that are scarcely mentioned, **Torys** (the first figure ever mentioned) is said to be a direct descendant of the main Yenerel god, **Nasyst**. It is said that Torys had apparently started the religion itself, starting a **series of conquest and religious wars** to spread the word of Nasyst. With the subjugation of other tribes and other natural elements of life coming to be important within an average citizen's life, more gods and goddesses sprung out and started to be worshiped.

Over time, Torys began to age and alongside him, the **era of unity on the continent ended**. The many other large tribes, that were seeking **redemption from previous wars**, had taken the advantage of disorganization amongst the Toros tribe and had swiftly ended its reign, starting the *Dominance Wars* (going to make a short wiki about this lore war).

After the **collapse of the Toros tribe**, the aforementioned Dominance Wars caused for the continent to yet again fall into a state of **disunity**, although this time having the Yenerel Faith. Due to the Dominance Wars, the numerous tribes began to instead practice a more **regional-worship** version of the religion, valuing some gods over others, eventually causing for many parts of the religion to be **forgotten**.

The modern version of Bostadir's version of the Yenerel Faith is the **most original**, due to the fact that the refugees from the Toros tribe, alongside some other Yenerel tribes (e.g, the **Fersen** or the **Starent**) had **fled across the land bridge** to what is now called the Yenerel Archipelago.

## Deities

In the Yenerel Faith, it is only certain that there are 18 gods in total, which will one day have full wiki sections about them, explaining their lore, history and influence within the world and Yenerel nations.

### Nasyst

Nasyst is the so-called "head god", often referred to as the "Bringer of Light", "The Creator", "The Great Voice" he has the most power amongst the whole Yenerel Pantheon. Nasyst is regularly depicted as the Sun, with it being his physical manifestation of his power, the many seasons on Iaddithis represents Nasyst's administration and power on the world; during summer, he takes care of the world the most and during winter, Starntha takes over his place mostly.

He has many wonders placed over the world, all of which are designated as holy sites by the Bostadirel designation of the Yenerel Faith, the Yenerel Archipelago itself being the most valued one, though it also contains another one being Nasyst's Peace, a cave. His many wonders are regarded as sacred, although there are no rules on safeguarding them, they are only said to be holy.

### Torys

Torys, Son of Nasyst and first spreader of the Yenerel Faith, he is regarded as a great, almost messiah-like, figure within the Yenerel Faith and Bostadirel culture. He was the first to unify many of the Yenerel tribes and create an identity for them; the now-called Bostadirel culture. The reason why he is regarded as a god is the fact that *he is* the son of Nasyst and always as been, always watching and protecting the people with his physical manifestation of his power being the Moon.

Within his long-lived life, he had managed to accomplish his goal of spreading the faith across the entire continent, so much so that even tribes that he hadn't fought against had converted. His legacy and family line lives on within the noble blood of the Norst family line, the founding monarchy of Bostadir.

### Starntha

Starntha would be perceived as always demanding and angered, but that is not the case, she is the goddess of the winter season and farms, she does not actively want to destroy crops and produce during winter, it is only a natural process, however, offering tribute or a sacrifice in her name would make her favour your cropland and perhaps even mitigate the winter's effects on your produce. She is represented by an oak tree, half dead from the winter and half alive, full of leaves, signifying her power over produce and the winter season.

### Vethel

Vethel is regarded as the great protector of Bostadir and the Yenerel Archipelago, this is due to the fact that she rules as the goddess of the waves and protection. She protects the holy islands that are the home of the true Yenerel people, not allowing any foreign invaders to encroach on the holy lands. In Yenerel mythology, it is said the she was the one who parted the islands from the mainland of Relveth, as she rode on her griffin she created a vicious wave that ripped some parts of the land, creating the islands that we know today, and saving the true Yenerel people.