The Gateway Summit was a historical event in
Solgrad in 1532 SE, where a meeting of bishops in the
Atovist Church held a series of conferences to reinterprate the church's official interpretation of
The Eulogy, standardize The Eulogy's translation, and standardize religious law.
The summit was called in response to the
Red Death. It was the official stance of the church that the plague was a corruption of the world brought on by mankind's debauchery.
Changes to the Church
The most significant change to the Atovist church was a series of laws on sexual promiscuity, in which the church officially banned sodomy, adultry, and pre-marital sex, and retranslated
The Book of Aduvir to make Aduvir the god of passion instead of lust.
The church also officially declared Vitethus to be the only aberrant form of
Shaping, and declared that it would support the research of shaping in Solgrad, as well as the hunting of apostates.
Consiquences
These reforms were not universally popular, two large subsects of the church branched into new denominations in the following years, the
Renewist Atovism denomination, which appointed its own bishops in 1537 in protest to the new laws on sexual impurity, in promotion of free love; and the
Church of Penance in 1565, which detested the act of Shaping and preached that all manipulation of the natural world was aberrant. (A more in-depth description of these denominations, and Atovism as a whole is in their own articles.)
It can be argued that the Gateway Summit set into play the turmoil that would lead to
King Gaelin the Bloody's religious persecution of Renewist Atovists, thus leading to the
Renewist Upheaval, and subsequently the
War of the Gates.
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