Human Paganism

The old Gods

This was the original religion of all humans, it revolves around the natural spirits of the plants and animals. They have a spirit for everything, and those spirits are often invoked to help bring favor. The followers don't call it human paganism, that is the academic term ascribed to it by scholars, as they themselves don't have a name for it.

Shamanism

By nature, a shamanic faith, religious men and women who are thought to commune with the spirits and perform sacred rituals, these exact rituals may differ slightly, but the shamans are so conservative that in fact, they have changed very little over time, although some tribes may use other rituals to achieve different things.
Shamans are an independent faction, and each tribe has its own shamanic ring, which is autonomous, and seeks to aid and help their tribal chief when necessary. They often don't hold any real political power, but they are seen as powerful and wise by their people, and therefore their judgement is often respected. These shamans don't often fight in battles, but those that do, use magic and are named warlocks
In fact, all shamans are capable of magic, even if not all of them are warriors. Any shaman may take on an apprentice if they find a suitable candidate, and this must always be a person with magical potential, on top of that they must show an aptitude for the spiritual and mystical. No one can come to the shamans asking to be trained, only the shamans can choose someone. Upon the completion of their training, which can take many years, a young shaman has to be inducted into the order of shamans and perform a graduation trial, the details of which are completely unknown to the outside world. Because the shamans are so picky with their selection of new recruits, any tribe usually has around half a dozen shamans, a dozen for very large tribes.
Amongst each other, the shamans are all equal, although they have one representative who will represent the shamanic ring to the local chief. this representative is chosen by the shamans of the ring, and can be fired at any time, in order to choose a new one, although this never really happens.
It is said the shamans are the keepers of ancient knowledge that they keep for themselves, and share only with each other, and only with fully trained shamans.

Branches of Faith

As an ancient and generally decentralized and unorganized religion, human paganism has spread and diversified into several different branches over time.
The Dendorian branch is the most common and well-known branch, which is also closest to the original faith. They focus on nature and spirituality, being in balance with yourself and the elements in order to find inner peace. They practice rituals to appease the spirits of the world, in order to gain favorable weather, to make their crops grow or to bring health and good fortune.
The Khellan branch differs from the others because it has deified the spirits, and given them names, as they moved to a region where trees and green are a foreign concept. These people lean heavily on their shamans to guide them and tell them the will of the gods. They Believe the the spirits are gods, and that each tree is the body of a single god, that brings that tree to the earth in order to give people wood. They believe the same of growable crops, they belive there is a single god of grains, that feeds them. To them, animals are just as sentient as them, as they feed on the same bodies of gods that humans do, and therefore their lives are as sacred as any humans. This is why they take special care to never waste any part of an animal that they kill, as this is seen as blasphemy.
The Aneira branch is very similar to the dendorian one in a lot of ways, although they have gained a new aspect of faith over the years, which is unique to them. they practice the veneration of ancestors. They are the only people on the continent who mummify their dead and keep them in crypts, rather than burying or creating. They believe that if the body remains preserved, the spirit of the deceased can come back to the world of the living on occasion, to give advice to their descendants through dreams and signs.
The Yavinian branch is the rarest and it is now exclusively followed by the house Onifnechi, and their citizens, as well as some very old vampires. It is the final remnant of what was once considered the primary branch of Human Paganism. It puts special emphasis on the moon, as a deity, as well as the other celestial bodies. unlike the other branches, it has mostly left shamanism behind, focusing on people's individual relationships with the gods, although this is change only started after the Onifnechi's became a religious isolate, and shamans were not very useful for them, and that is why the practice faded over time, now they have regular mages, like the rest of Westingham. This branch is also followed by the members of faith that are left in Rendia.

Most commonly practiced in:
Dendor
khellador
Aneira
Onifnechi Fortress 
Minority Religion in:
Rendia 
Westingham 
Ruhnefort 

Religion of Vampires

Many particularly old human vampires hail from an era when this faith was dominant among all humans, and therefore most human elder vampires and their descendants follow this faith, although vampires are not exactly known for their religious dedication.