Dehanism
Exploding out of the northern desert, Dehanism is an attractive religion for many reasons--its egalitarianism made it popular with the downtrodden, its rich body of literature made it popular with scholars, and the powerful empire to its name was pretty good at quashing people who denounced it outright.
Mythology & Lore
To be brief, God makes man, god makes lesser gods, God decides he doesn't like man, lesser god intercedes, lesser god lives in a state of continual agony, nourished by prayer, while acting as a shield between God and the material world.
Divine Origins
The northern desert.
Cosmological Views
They know God made the world, but eff God, amiright?
Tenets of Faith
Basically just faith and frequent prayer. Some rites, but many are peripheral, entirely optional, or even doctrinally worthless.
Worship
By offering elaborate, often pre-composed prayers at sunup and sundown. That, and acting ethically, are the only things a layperson needs to do.
Priesthood
Clerics are hired by their superiors--A chapelmaster will hire their inferiors, a regional authority will hire an abbot or head of a mission, etc.
Political Influence & Intrigue
It owns an empire, and it exerts considerable sway in the Gessenian league, the Het Ulun empire, several other places.
Sects
Small splinter sects, but no large schisms so far. The sects will be covered individually.
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