Henge Era

The secularist rise of trade and commerce ignited the advent of economic power, a new type of influence that had the potential to challenge the religious and stately control systems in place. Although the vast majority of religious leaders embraced the flourishing advancements that came with improved economies, and attributed much of it to the direct handiwork of the god and goddess, a few outliers sought to resort to the older ways. These groups were eventually dubbed Henge Worshippers for their fanatic and fundamentalist adherence to rituals involving stone henges from the religion’s early history, some of which still exist today. They attracted aggressive adherents, and utilized the seafaring culture of the region to spread their ideas and influence many large populations. A formal hierarchy formed within the movement, which is ironically something that had never before existed the Craedock’s spiritual circles, and soon the henge-church was spreading their message by force. As warfare ignited and continued, the religious order took on the form of a military chain of command, and a line of Supreme Prophets lead their armies. The church became an empire. Throughout Entrophion, the Acronian Sea , and Poslool more states were subjugated. Those that had the resources to make indoctrination worth the task were forcibly integrated into the new Obelisk Empire, named so as they took on the practice of erecting massive obelisks and pyramids in the center of many of the old henges, an architectural task once impossible without the technology and resources made available over the last three-thousand years. Those settlements that refused imperial rule or were not worth the time to integrate were enslaved. To this day the Empire is still the largest “unifying” force to have ever existed in the region.

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Common Global

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