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Heya guys; my turn to add to the discussion. As I mentioned in the other thread a little over a week ago, I started work on a religion to be used as background/cultural information in Destrillians. It’s centered in the Shatterlands, (or Sobek and Pharos,) and also in Iapethus just to the south—but there are little pocket cultures everywhere in the world that practice it, much like our own world.
Feel free to use it as background info in places, but do remember that this is an ancient religion – probably as old as the Shattering itself – and most of the modern world is more inclined to look at it in textbooks and museums than actually take it seriously.
Without further ado, a little teaser:
In the beginning, there was Oe, or “Nothing.” Oe was an ageless thing, terribly old—and terribly lonely. One day, the grief of eternity alone became too much, and he threw all his sadness and pain into one being and turned it into light, and created Lai, “the Beginning.” Lai was beautiful and wise, and the two of them loved each other to unfathomable depths and spent a timeless time together.
Eventually, though, Lai could feel all the life in her bursting to be free of her body. She and Oe had grown lonely once more, even despite each other’s company, but Oe could not create any more life. He had only had enough power for one.
But Lai was full of the life of everything, and she knew it had to be set free. Despite Oe’s pleas to find another way, she exploded and created a thousand stars a thousand times, and a thousand times again. Every star a son or daughter.
Oe desperately tried to save her, but the only thing he could salvage from her body was the first letter of her name, which he took for his own and became Loe, or “the Beginning of Nothing,” or “the End.”
All life is made up of the spirit of Lai. She gave herself so that the world and all that lies beyond the world could be. She resides in every tree trunk, every raindrop, every flame and star and heart. When a thing dies, Loe takes its lifeforce and puts it in “the waiting world,” a paradisiacal land left somewhere deep in unexplored skies by Lai’s exploded body. There the lifeforce lives in bliss until all life in the universe has extinguished, whereupon it will all reunite into Lai. Loe will give the first letter of her name back and become Oe once more, and they will live happily in the paradise of her old, ruined body.
One star, Shale, shone brighter and more beautifully than all the rest. She reminded Loe the most of Lai, and so he placed her in the middle of all her brothers and sisters so he could admire her. But the others grew jealous of Shale and tried to kill her.
To protect her, Loe formed a hard shell of rock and earth around her, where she lived within the hollow center, turned into the form of a woman.
This shell of rock and earth was the planet.
Oh also. Rosenfeld's alive.
No big.
Feel free to use it as background info in places, but do remember that this is an ancient religion – probably as old as the Shattering itself – and most of the modern world is more inclined to look at it in textbooks and museums than actually take it seriously.
Without further ado, a little teaser:
In the beginning, there was Oe, or “Nothing.” Oe was an ageless thing, terribly old—and terribly lonely. One day, the grief of eternity alone became too much, and he threw all his sadness and pain into one being and turned it into light, and created Lai, “the Beginning.” Lai was beautiful and wise, and the two of them loved each other to unfathomable depths and spent a timeless time together.
Eventually, though, Lai could feel all the life in her bursting to be free of her body. She and Oe had grown lonely once more, even despite each other’s company, but Oe could not create any more life. He had only had enough power for one.
But Lai was full of the life of everything, and she knew it had to be set free. Despite Oe’s pleas to find another way, she exploded and created a thousand stars a thousand times, and a thousand times again. Every star a son or daughter.
Oe desperately tried to save her, but the only thing he could salvage from her body was the first letter of her name, which he took for his own and became Loe, or “the Beginning of Nothing,” or “the End.”
All life is made up of the spirit of Lai. She gave herself so that the world and all that lies beyond the world could be. She resides in every tree trunk, every raindrop, every flame and star and heart. When a thing dies, Loe takes its lifeforce and puts it in “the waiting world,” a paradisiacal land left somewhere deep in unexplored skies by Lai’s exploded body. There the lifeforce lives in bliss until all life in the universe has extinguished, whereupon it will all reunite into Lai. Loe will give the first letter of her name back and become Oe once more, and they will live happily in the paradise of her old, ruined body.
One star, Shale, shone brighter and more beautifully than all the rest. She reminded Loe the most of Lai, and so he placed her in the middle of all her brothers and sisters so he could admire her. But the others grew jealous of Shale and tried to kill her.
To protect her, Loe formed a hard shell of rock and earth around her, where she lived within the hollow center, turned into the form of a woman.
This shell of rock and earth was the planet.
Oh also. Rosenfeld's alive.
No big.
