Followers of Tephos, the Chosen of Pelor
In the Sun Father's Hand. Is a controversial text accepted at present by only a handful of Pelorian temples. It was written about 476 of the First Age by a woman named Tephos. Tephos was not a priest, but she believed herself to be Pelor's chosen representative on Asyur. Somehow she performed miracles, including curing an entire village of plague, before writing about her beliefs and vanishing in front of her disciples in a flash of golden light. Tephos taught that all property should be held communally, that society should return to a more "natural" state like that assumed to exist before the spread of civilization, and that clerics were unnecessary; Pelor could intervene directly instead. Most branches of the Pelorian faith consider Tephos to be gifted but delusional.
History
After Tephos cured an entire district of the plague, with a single prayer, she gained a flock of devotee Pelorians. After this Tephos goes into a week long coma, spouting words that are penned by her followers into the book In the Sun Father's Hand. This book instantly became controversial in the Solem Ecclesia and is banned by the Church within a month. After this, the followers are banned from practicing divine magics and rituals, and are punished as heretics, some burned at the stakes as a show of power. As the last of the followers and Tephos were about to be found and executed, she gathered her followers, and lead them through a brilliant golden light, never to be seen again.
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