Aeternums and Religion

As time passed on Postantera, the mortal folks that followed the aeternums around for generations began to see them as god-like. Anyone who stood relatively unchanged after hundreds of years would elicit the same type of response from the short lived mortals. Several aeternums who broke away from the crash site at Starfall even embraced the idea of being worshipped by their followers. Perhaps the most famous case of this de-facto deification is of “God-King Joe” Joseph Reed, who settled the Tarka Peninsula to the South of the crash site.
All aeternums in some capacity were worshipped, as the main religion spread by Thomas Crane’s followers of Aeterism decreed. It states that these aeternums were sent along to protect the mortals from the new world of Postantera, and from themselves.
However, this placement of aeternums atop pedestals is an unwise move on the mortals’ part. Yes, these aeternums have everlasting biological life, but they are not omni-present, they are not all-knowing, and most importantly they are flawed beings, unlike previous God figures like Jehovah, known to these mortals. There have been several instances where aeternums made a wrong decision or have otherwise shown their humanity, much to the shock of the masses.