Path of Splendor
Know thy glorious form, and become the work which transmutes gods.
The Path of Splendor is a discredited and outlawed spiritual doctrine said to have emerged from the hidden circles of the Imorean Celestiarchivum, "taught" by an entity known as Thamryss the Mirror, a being who is not fully agreed to be an actual historical figure. Once a fringe school of personal mysticism, it later drew the scrutiny of the early Church of Holy Law for its bold claims and veiled rituals.
At its heart, the Path teaches that divinity is not granted, but cultivated. Its adherents believe that through intense reflection, discipline, and symbolic rites, one may awaken a perfected version of the self. This ideal self is not simply moral or enlightened, it is worthy of reverence, worship, and transformation.
Practitioners were taught to seek unity with divine energies present throughout the world, not through prayer or submission, but through internal alignment. Mirrors, repetition, and personal sigils were used in these rites, often to reflect the aspirant’s self-image into something greater than mortal limitation.
To the orthodox faithful, this was nothing less than self-worship, a dangerous inversion of humility and obedience. The Path was declared heresy in the wake of the Rupture, and its texts were seized or destroyed. Even so, faint traces of its language and symbolism persist, especially among outcast sects and dream-cults.
It's teachings have found a recitation within the Coterie of the Hollow Saint.
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