Christianity

Christianity's focus is primarily on the religious figure after which the religion is named, Christ. There are three main branches of Christianity in the world of the Old Gods, with each being distinct enough to not allow full communion between each other. They see each other as misguided at best, or at worst heretics, dependent upon which God is worshipped within each Pantheon.

> For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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## Commonalities

Even though each branch of Christianity has a different view of the Trinity (the Christian Transcendent God), the Father, Son, Spirit is the same God in each branch, just viewed differently. The Transcendent God permits the different manifestations of itself in each branch as the belief is not enough to split the manifestations into distinct Gods.

This also means that the Latian, Hellenic, and Angelic Choir pantheons all answer to the same Transcendent God (Ousia/YHVH/ΑΩ), and that the Choirs of Lucifer are a common adversary.

Evil Gods in the Pantheon nominally answer to the Transcendent God, but usually unwillingly, and tolerance/worship of them is sometimes seen as a necessary evil.

## Hellenic

   The Hellenic religion values tradition and familial honour, as well as defeating evil wherever it is found. The religious centre of the Hellenic faith is in Constantinople, although Athens is also an important holy site, as that is where much of the Hellenic history has come from.

### Hellenic Pantheon

The pantheon includes the Hellenic interpretation of the Transcendent God, the Greek gods (e.g. Zeus, Hermes) and various archangels from Christian angelology.

The Hellenic interpretation of the Transcendent God is similar to the heresy of Sabellianism (or Modalism), a real-world belief that the Transcendent God only revealed itself using the "modes" of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In the real world this was condemned in the Council of Nicaea and Constantinople, but is fully embraced by the Hellenic faith.

> "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?"
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## Latian

The Latian religion finds its focus in trade, economic success and the eventual victory of civilization and order over chaos and darkness. Roma is the centre of the Latian faith. The Latian religion doesn't have much respect for the perceived "weaker" forces of Nature, such as plants and animals, due to the overarching belief in the triumph of civilization and economic advancement.

### Latian Pantheon

The pantheon includes the Latian interpretation of the Transcendent God, the Roman gods (e.g. Jupiter, Mercury) and various archangels from Christian angelology.

The Latian interpretation of the Transcendent God is similar to the heresies of Arianism, a real-world belief that only the Father is the Transcendent God, and Adoptionism, the belief that Iesu only became his Son at his baptism by his spirit, rather than being co-existent with the Father from the beginning. The Holy Spirit is not a separate being, just the power of the Father at work in the world. In the real world, these heresies were condemned by The First Council of Nicaea, but are fully embraced by the Latian faith.

> "Some of them say that the Son is an eructation, others that he is a production, others that he is also unbegotten. These are impieties to which we cannot listen, even though the heretics threaten us with a thousand deaths. But we say and believe and have taught, and do teach, that the Son is not unbegotten, nor in any way part of the unbegotten; and that he does not derive his subsistence from any matter; but that by his own will and counsel he has subsisted before time and before ages as perfect as God, only begotten and unchangeable, and that before he was begotten, or created, or purposed, or established, he was not. For he was not unbegotten."
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## Coptic

Prester John managed to establish a Christian Church in North East Africa, in Aethiopia after managing to infiltrate through the religiously hostile Aegyptians. This became a great Theocratic Kingdom, and is the only other major power in Africa that is able to halt the advance of the power-hungry Aegyptians.

### Coptic Pantheon

Coptics consider the other branches of Christianity heretics due to the other two being syncretic with the Hellenic and Latian Gods; Coptics believe that only YHVH Himself should be worshipped as God, and to do that one offers supplication to His Son-Messiah, Yeshua, by means of the Holy Spirit.

Praying and supplication to the angels is permissible, as long as they are not worshipped as God himself.

> "In addition, if any writings composed by Arius, or Sabellius should be found, it should be handed over to the flames, so that not only will the wickedness of their teachings be obliterated, but nothing will be left even to remind anyone of them. And I hereby make a public order, that if someone should be discovered to have hidden a writing composed by either heretic, and not to have immediately brought it forward and destroyed it by fire, his penalty shall be death. As soon as he is discovered in this offence, he shall be submitted for capital punishment."
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## Angelic Pantheon

The Christian angels carry out the orders of the Transcendent God, and sometimes have power comparable to other Gods in the Christian pantheons. There are also fallen angels who are not formally worshipped inside the Christian faiths, but form the Fallen Choirs of Lucifer.