Ordo Theographico Infinium

Multifaith clerical order, devoted to recording, organizing, and preserving the knowledge of all deities and religious traditions that have been followed in the world. Believes any deity who is entirely forgotten represents a source of divine energy that has been cut off from the world.

Public Agenda

• The OTI's purpose is to gather, record, and preserve all knowledge, traditions, lore, and beliefs about every deity and religion that is followed or remembered by anyone in the world.
• Their efforts are prioritized by the entities that are most vulnerable to extinction
• After two and a half millennia of activity, the OTI have reached and documented the majority of cultures Naria, Solaira, Eukatetica, Subrosia, Elunica, and the islands of the oceans. For the most part, their primary mission has shifted to a continual process of revisiting and updating their information – a process that does not demand the same level of clergy as the trailblazing adventurers of old.
• Many of the OTI's efforts in modern times are outreach-focused, aiming to shift the world's peoples away from patterns of behavior that allow for the possibility of further theicides.

Mythology & Lore

"An eternal reminder of the price of remembrance lost. The price was not paid by us, and the debt cannot be collected. Thus it us up to us to earn our absolution - if such is possible - by ensuring this is never repeated. And if our children's children's children no longer accept our guilt as their own, still this gangrenous wound will remain, so that they never forget the forgotten." ~ Inscription on waystones surrounding the Blight of the Forgotten 

Divine Origins

The Theographico Infinium was founded within the Narian Empire in the first half of the third millennium, in reaction to the collective shock, horror, and guilt in the Empire over the atrocity that created the Blight of the Forgotten.

Ethics

1. A land and its people are one. The land offers gifts to its people.
2. A people and their gods are one. The people offer belief to their gods.
3. The gods and their land are one. The gods offer vitality to their land.

They believe that there is no greater crime than the intentional killing of a people, their land, and their gods – for the death of one is the death of all three. The unforgivable sin of the Narian Empire, which resulted in the Blight of the Forgotten, was perpetrated by attacking the belief of a people in their gods.  The Ordo Theographico Infinium was founded to prevent a similar tragedy.

Research. Record. Remember.

Founding Date

ca. 2000

Type

Religious, Holy Order

Deities

• Hlal
• Labelas Enoreth
• OMNH